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Penny's Gift

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Penny Cheney is a stay at home mother of four year old twin girls and a baby boy while her husband Hal works at International Supplies. However, Penny becomes ill and keels over in her kitchen. Hal rushes her to Southlawn Hospital where she is placed in the intensive care ward in a comatose state with no hope of recovery.

While Penny remains near death, miracles begin to happen in the hospital. Reporter Louis Klotz whose asthma is cured realizes that Penny is the center of incredible miracle worker of individuals dying from incurable diseases. His article brings the world to this small hospital.

When Penny regains consciousness she tells Hal that she was given a choice of entering the light or returning to her family with a healing gift not seen on earth in two millenniums. Penny will soon learn that her gift is also a curse as the demands on her become unbelievable with some people willing to endanger her loved ones to force her hand.

PENNY'S GIFT is an incredible thought provoking tale that focuses on the impact on a divine miracle worker who just wants to be a good loving mother and wife, not a save the world second coming. The story line starts like a typical family drama, but quickly turns into a fabulous parable from the moment Penny receives Hobson's Choice until the climax of dealing with an endless demand. This is a great insightful tale of sacrifice from an author who has quite a future if this "daydream:" is any indication of her talent.

Harriet Klausner

In Penny's Gift author Edna Venture-Auerfeld, swiftly brings us along with Penny, the mother of three small children, to a life or death decision. This female savior/hero is a sympathetic character who has to pay the ultimate price just to be with her family - a luxury so many of us foolishly take for granted every day. In this fast-paced adventure the author skillfully conveys her insight into human relationships, psychology and spirituality in a manner very rarely seen these days. Penny's Gift is an escapade in which the reader feels Penny's bombardment with real-life characters - some of whom you don't want to meet up with in real life. The book addresses the sacrifice of motherhood and it celebrates its rewards. No question, given the choice, I would do as Penny did and stay with my young children and husband no matter what the price. What would you do? Read it and decide for yourself. In the meantime I'm just waiting for Ms. Auerfeld's next page turner.

Penny Chaney, and all of the characters, are just your typical everyday people. Being a housewife and a mother I could relate with Penny's decisions and dilemas. I'm glad that I didn't have to make her final decision.

Instead of focusing on the sadness of the ICU, Edna Ventre-Auerfeld shows us how everybody reacts differently to these types of situations. I found myself laughing instead of crying.

The whole book makes you realize how silly we can truly be. How we cannot believe that somebody wants to do good in this world with no benefits to themself. How gullible and easily fooled we can be. How everybody tries to capitalize on other people's misfortunes. This was definitely a story for the tabloids.

The best part, you couldn't figure out how it was going to end until you got to the last chapter.

Penny's Gift is an exceptionally well written story about an ordinary wife and mother. Penny receives an extraordinary gift to heal others. The journey Penny takes as she contends with the far reaching implications of this gift are fascinating to read. Penny's sacrifices and heart wrenching decisions are so eloquently described by Ms. Aurfeld that one can't help but imagine what one would do when faced with similar circumstances. I enjoyed this book immensely - I could not put it down. I eagerly anticipate Ms. Auerfeld's next book.

Penny's Gift is an easy to read, fast moving story. Any mother can relate to the life of Penny and the decisions she was faced with. The other characters in this book were also very real and the author did a great job depicting them. I couldn't put the book down!

Penny Cheney is a stay at home mother of four year old twin girls and a baby boy while her husband Hal works at International Supplies. However, Penny becomes ill and keels over in her kitchen. Hal rushes her to Southlawn Hospital where she is placed in the intensive care ward in a comatose state with no hope of recovery.

While Penny remains near death, miracles begin to happen in the hospital. Reporter Louis Klotz whose asthma is cured realizes that Penny is the center of incredible miracle worker of individuals dying from incurable diseases. His article brings the world to this small hospital.

When Penny regains consciousness she tells Hal that she was given a choice of entering the light or returning to her family with a healing gift not seen on earth in two millenniums. Penny will soon learn that her gift is also a curse as the demands on her become unbelievable with some people willing to endanger her loved ones to force her hand.

PENNY'S GIFT is an incredible thought provoking tale that focuses on the impact on a divine miracle worker who just wants to be a good loving mother and wife, not a save the world second coming. The story line starts like a typical family drama, but quickly turns into a fabulous parable from the moment Penny receives Hobson's Choice until the climax of dealing with an endless demand. This is a great insightful tale of sacrifice from an author who has quite a future if this "daydream:" is any indication of her talent.

Harriet Klausner

I loved Penny's Gift. The author has a great imagination and is a wonderful story teller. The characters grow and evolve before your eyes. The story line is one that grabs you with the first sentance. I could not put it down. I recommend you give it a try!

This book started being very interesting, full of secret murder plans, the proposed victim currently in a coma, and a nosy reporter that follows her case like a hawk. It was slow to get started after the initial bang, there was much talk, but it held the pace pretty well. My complaint with this novel is the second half of the book. I didn't feel I knew the characters. They were all cut-outs, stereotypes, that were predictable and uninteresting. Penny, the center of the story, was a bland selfless mother of three. Isaac, the criminal mastermind, is completely evil and greedy. There was no way to like him or humanize him - he was simply a scamming cult leader with an eye for a bargain. After hundreds of pages of reading, I still didn't care whether or not the characters survived. All in all, I wouldn't recommend this book.