News of the World [Film Tie-In Edition]

The story is touching and tender but not maudlin. The ending or close to the ending is haunting. The relationship between the two principles is unique but to me seemed genuine and real.

What can I say here, but that I loved it. If this book is small, it is in size only. Otherwise, it is big in heart and character. In its pages I met two people will mostly likely remain with me for awhile. So once again, it has been the characters that I identified with most in recent books and through emotion. Here in News of the World it was Captain Kidd and Johanna, who at first seem so vastly different. He, who has experienced a long, full life, looks back often to memories. She at the age where life burgeons is now seen at by others as altered irrevocably. Then I saw that because of these things they needed one another to move forward, as if determined by fate.

Such a wonderful novel. Learned so much about the abduction of white children by Native Americans and how it affected their lives.