That Camden Summer

by LaVyrle Spencer

Book Overview

LaVyrle Spencer, known for her heartrending slices of Americana writes of how love can be more special the second time around in this New York Times bestseller. It is 1916 and Roberta Jewett is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399141200
• ISBN13: 9780399141201
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Tearjerking, Addictive & a Definite Keeper...

Description from the back of book: The year is 1916. The place is a tiny New England village called Camden - where a newly divorced woman learns that love can be more special the second time around... When free thinking divorcee Roberta Jewett returns to her hometown of Camden, Maine, she discovers that small-town folk consider a divorced woman little more that a prostitute. Condemned by her mother and scorned by neighbors, she nonetheless perseveres in her struggle to forge a good life for her little girls and herself. Behaving like no "respectable" woman would, she gets a job as a county nurse, learns to drive, and buys her very own Model T. Embittered by her painful marriage to an unfaithful husband, she has no intention of being any man's victim again. So when widowed carpenter Gabriel Farley begins work renovating her house, Roberta's first response to him is blatant resentment. But Gabriel's quiet, vibrant masculinity soon finds a way to soothe Roberta's heart. And in the ultimate test of will and devotion, she must depend on the man she has grown to love and summon the courage to stand up to the entire town. * This book was so great. I can't tell you how many times it brought tears to my eyes. I couldn't put it down & it's a definite keeper. The story is wonderful & sad at times but Roberta doesn't let the bad things overrule the life she's worked so hard to keep exciting for her girls. I don't see how anybody wouldn't love this book. I HIGHLY recommend.

Awesome reading!

This was one of the "newer" novels from Ms. Spencer I read and I was a little hesitant because it was newer..But so far I have read this book TWICE and would read it again in a heartbeat. I always like writers who can pull a reader into the book or novel to the point you see yourself there. That is what happens with this one. I traveled back in time and lived with Roberta and the kids and laughed and cried with them. I would have to say the most enjoyable parts of the book were when Roberta wanted to buy a car (how scandalous!!) and her first driving lesson. This is a love story, but it is also an adventure. Buy this, you will enjoy it.

A Great Book With Complex characters

I happened to love most of LaVyrle Spencer's books, but this is my favorite. So rarely do romances tackle the issues that Spencer illuminates in this novel. Finally, a women with spirit who is not a shrew or countlessly doing stupid things.Roberta Jewitt returns to her home town after divorcing her husband. She brings her three daughters in order for them to become closer to the family she left in Maine when she went away to college in Boston. However, she encounters many things when she returns, not all of them good or pretty to read about. I felt this book was ultimately about choices. The choices you make, the motives behind those choices, and the rewards and consequences of those choices.I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a grown-up romance and not the junior high school stuff that a lot of authors are putting out.

A great read

I loved this book!I would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a fast enjoyable read. This book got me hooked on Spencer's books!

WOW!!! Incredible!!!

This was the first novel I ever read of L.Spencer's,to say the least this book had me hooked from the beginning. Ms.Spencer has an incredible talent!Her description of the scenery made me feel as if I my self have been to Camden. Since I first read this book, a year and a half ago, I have since read 13 other novels by her.She is a very gifted woman. I highly recommend this book as well as all her others,