Love comes softly book series5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Clem left to go and inspect their land, but he came back dead, thrown from his horse. She and her husband Clem were on the last leg of a journey west. Martha (Marty) Claridge has just been widowed. We already have several copies on the shelves, so I decided to take this one home and see if the magic was still there. A few weeks ago someone donated a copy of it to our library. It seemed a lovely way to pass a Sunday afternoon. I found it crammed in the shelves next to my Grandma’s tattered Bible and her frayed, sunbleached copy of Crowning Glory Hymnal. I read this book over and over when I was oh, maybe 12 years old. A simple, sweet prairie story by a Canadian author, it nevertheless became a word-of-mouth bestseller, and the Christian fiction market has never been the same since. ![]() If Kathleen Woodiwiss’ The Flame and the Flower changed the romance fiction market forever in 1972, in 1979 Love Comes Softly did something of the same thing for the Christian romance market which had been stagnating since the death of Grace Livingston Hill in 1947. ![]()
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