The Dawning of the Day [Hardcover]

Elisabeth Ogilvie (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Peoples Book Club; Book Club Edition edition (1954)
• ASIN: B002NE2900
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,493,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A lovely Bennett's Island tale., October 26, 2000

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Michelle Ule "An Eclectic Reader" (Northern California, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Dawning of the Day (Ogilvie Lovers Trilogy) (Paperback)

This is a lovely story of World War II widow Phillipa who travels to Bennett's Island to work as a teacher. Leaving behind her own young son, she focuses on reaching the students living on an isolated island off the coast of Maine. There, Phillipa confronts prejudice against a handicapped child, as well as learning things about herself.

Along with Ogilvie's usual wonderful descriptions of life on an island in the years following the war, the reader also gets a warm and simple love story of two lonely, independent people. As usual with Ogilvie's writings, there is a twist at the end and the seeming tranquility of island living really hides intense passions. A wonderful book I have read several times.