Reviews for Dear James

The average rating for Dear James based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-06-20 00:00:00 Michitaka Hanibuchi Normally I read an author's opus in publication order. I broke my own rule this time because some time ago I purchased a number of volumes in the Loyola Press Catholic Classics series, most of which are no longer available from Loyola. Dear James is the 3rd installment in the Staggerford series which I truly wish I had begun with the first novel in the series, Staggerford. Who knows? This one was good enough I may go back and read the first two books. However, if you do read this first as I did, it is still a good stand-alone. Dear James is an unlikely love story, or rather love triangle and yet there is no real competition among the parties, just fallings out, misunderstandings and forgiveness. The love concerns: two elderly people, a spinster in Minnesota, Miss Agatha McGee; James, in Ireland, who she has been writing to for a number of years; and the townspeople of Staggerford. Agatha was recently forced into retirement by the closing of her beloved school and she is feeling decidedly unloved and useless after a very full and useful life. More I cannot say without giving away plot spoilers for the previous book in the series, A Green Journey. If you have never read Hassler, you are in for a treat. I knew he was good from having read, North of Hope. Oh dear I best quit now or I will be talking myself into another book by him and I have so many others to finish first!

Review # 2 was written on 2011-05-09 00:00:00 Charles Stuart [ platonic relationship between a teacher and a priest (hide spoiler)]