The Tryst [Hardcover]

Grace Livingston Hill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 3, 2011

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 314 pages
• Publisher: Amereon Ltd (June 3, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891900500
• ISBN-13: 978-0891900504
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,658,616 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A terrific read for a night beside the fire, May 12, 2000

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This review is from: The Tryst (Hardcover)

This is one of Grace Livingston Hill's best books. Patricia accidentally overhears the venomous words of her sister and mother, discovering that she may be adopted and that the confusing coolness she has felt from them stems from this. With her father gone on an overseas business trip, she has no one to turn to, and runs away from their spiteful, hateful words and behavior.

Determined to hide until her father can return to help her, she finds herself alone in the city, only to have God miraculously provide a job and a new identity as a companion to an old woman who turns into her closest friend.

Travelling with her employer to a far-off resort, Patricia suddenly comes across a man she knew and loved one summer long ago, but she must pretend she doesn't know him in order to protect her identity.

But her young man has a tryst of his own, as he fulfills his promise to his mother to try to once again earnestly seek the God he has forsaken, while balancing the demands of his rich, selfish uncle, who wants to use him for his own ends.

A complex, thoughtful book... An especially good story for those who may have grown up in the church but turned away because of the influence of college professors or the secular world, who want to earnestly understand the God they once knew...and to know Him again, just as He has always known you, yet not forsaken you.

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than average Grace Livingston Hill, January 31, 2011

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This review is from: The Tryst (Kindle Edition)

This story grabbed me from the beginning. The heroine, Patty Merrill, can seem a little helpless and impulsive at times. She runs away from home and then longs for her father to come and tell her what to do. Otherwise she is a likeable girl who has a sense of humor and compassion.

The hero, John Dunham Treeves is the quintissential superman, good and handsome and strong and wise. He has outgrown the vagaries of his youth and returned to the good spiritual foundations which his sainted mother ingrained in him. He has integrity and a clear mission in life. He can't be tempted by the riches of his evil old uncle.

Although, these characters may all seem rather stereotypical, they help make the story an allegory. Set in the era immediately following World War I, it shows gives us a snapshot of the values of that time and it's class structure.

It was only the ending that was rather unsatisfactory, although, they do all live happily ever after in the best tradition. It seemed that Ms. Hill got tired of writing and just ended abruptly.