The Prayer Box by Lisa Wingate
These things I do, this melody of an ordinary day, keep the hours in order. . . . Strange to think of that. The song of an ordinary life. Mine would be in these letters to you.When Iola Anne Poole, an old-timer on Hatteras Island, passes away in her bed at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in Iola's rental cottage, Tandi Jo Reese, finds herself charged with the task of cleaning out Iola's rambling Victorian house.
Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi never expects to find more than a temporary hiding place within Iola's walls, but everything changes with the discovery of eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes, one for each year, spanning from Iola's youth to her last days. Hidden in the boxes is the story of a lifetime, written on random bits of paper--the hopes and wishes, fears and thoughts of an unassuming but complex woman passing through the seasons of an extraordinary, unsung life filled with lessons in faith, observations on love, and one final lesson that could change everything.
Lisa Wingate is the author of thirty New York Times bestseller novels. The Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award, the Utah Library Award, the Carol Award, the Christy Award, and the RT Booklovers Reviewer's Choice Award are just a few of the prizes she's won or been nominated for. Before We Were Yours, her most recent work, received the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781410460875 |
| ISBN 10 | 1410460878 |
| Title | The Prayer Box |
| Author | Lisa Wingate |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cengage Learning, Inc |
| Year published | 2013-09-04 |
| Number of pages | 537 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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