The Touch: The Contemporary Story of a Life Changed

by Patricia Hickman

While her father desperately searches for her, a troubled young wife and mother searches for the safety and spiritual transformation that can only be found in the healing touch of Christ. A modern-day... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842340173
• ISBN13: 9780842340175
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

A Good Book

The Touch was a book about a young woman on the run, with her 2 children, from an abusive husband. She tries to reach her father, then becomes afraid to ask him for help because of standards that she saw her father putting on her (her father was a preacher). The father then looks for his daughter and grandkids and they are all reunited.I liked the humor in the book. Being on the run from an abusive husband is serious business, but the humor did lighten up the husband. I liked the bantering between Isabella and Wade (the preacher father), Wade passing out in the mall, the church catching on fire, Wade being roped into marrying a couple at the airport, etc.I know that this book was meant to be a shorter novel. However, it would have been nice for the book to be expanded another 100 pages. It would have been interesting to find out more about the abusive husband, Sydney's childhood, and the reconciliation between Sydney and her father. Also, I thought that there was too much stuff at the beginning of the book about Wade trying to decide whether or not to find Sydney and Wade trying to get out of the church, but not enough towards the end of the book about Sydney's and Wade's reconciliation.All in all, this was a pretty good book about grace and forgiveness. Patricia Hickman is a wonderful writer. I am looking forward to reading more of her books.

A wonderful little book with a big message

I've been on a fiction kick lately - first Gideon's Gift, then The Lullaby, and now The Touch! This book will take you only a couple of hours to read, but there is SO much there! The book was inspired by the picture painted by Ron DiCianni which depicts the woman who touches the hem of Jesus' cloak and is healed. A young woman is fleeing an abusive marriage with her two young children. She lives in a sleazy motel, being a housekeeper there in order to have a place to live. Meanwhile, her father is dealing with issues of his own. The way it all comes together is beautiful.This was my first book by Patricia Hickman and I will definitely be looking for more.