Title: The
Girl in the Glass
Author: Susan Meissner
Review: I
love the way this author can weave different time periods and lives together to
create a beautiful story. Her plots are
multi-layered and interesting at each stage.
This story kept me turning the pages and the ending was worth the
journey.
I love this look at
the past and the present as important to our lives. We are part of those that have come before us
and love is what binds us all. Love for
each other in the good times and love for each other in the bad times. But being a Christian publisher I was a bit
lost that God was not mentioned more.
If you enjoy history
brought to life in stories and people you will enjoy this author and this book. I have a greater desire to visit Florence
then I had before…someday I keep telling myself…when the kids are grown…maybe…I
hope. This is a story of hope and hope
you enjoy it as much as I did.
I would suggest her
book, Sound Among the Trees, also.
Publisher: Published September 18th 2012 by
WaterBrook Press
ISBN: 9780307730428
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 352
Quick Review: 4 stars (out of 5)-
Why I Read It:
Sent by the publisher for review.
Synopsis: Renaissance
is a word with hope infused in every letter.
Since she was a child,
Meg has dreamed of taking a promised trip to Florence, Italy, and being able to
finally step into the place captured in a picture at her grandmother’s house.
But after her grandmother passes away and it falls to her less-than-reliable
father to take her instead, Meg’s long-anticipated travel plans seem
permanently on hold.
When her dad finally
tells Meg to book the trip, she prays that the experience will heal the
fissures left on her life by her parents’ divorce. But when Meg arrives in
Florence, her father is nowhere to be found, leaving aspiring memoir-writer
Sophia Borelli to introduce Meg to the rich beauty of the ancient city. Sofia
claims to be one of the last surviving members of the Medici family and that a
long-ago Medici princess, Nora Orsini, communicates with her from within the
great masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance.
When Sophia, Meg, and
Nora’s stories intersect, their lives will be indelibly changed as they each
answer the question: What if renaissance isn’t just a word? What if that’s what
happens when you dare to believe that what is isn’t what has to be?
About the author : Susan Meissner was born in San Diego,
California, the second of three. She spent her childhood in just two houses.
Her first writings are
a laughable collection of oddly worded poems and predictable stories she wrote
when she was eight.
She attended Point
Loma College in San Diego, and married her husband, Bob, who is now an
associate pastor and a chaplain in the Air Force Reserves, in 1980. When she is
not working on a new novel, she is directing the small groups ministries at The
Church at Rancho Bernardo. She also enjoy teaching workshops on writing and
dream-following, spending time with my family, music, reading great books, and
traveling.
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