Big Stone Gap is a romantic novel that makes you yearn for the traditional values of the past. Filled with honor, chivalry and small-town life, it is easy to get pulled in and feel that you are right there in the town of Big Stone Gap.
Ave Maria is the main character and the one who is narrating the story. She is a young woman who is the town pharmacist and the “unmarried” one. She is happy with her life but misses her mother who passed away and left her with a secret regarding who her real father is.
The story unfolds from there as Ave Maria confronts her feelings of love for a man who is almost too good to be true. The people of Big Stone Gap will have you laughing and cheering their antics.
There are many threads throughout this story, which helps to keep the pace moving. It also highlights all the different relationships that are out there, and we get a look at each one – mother/daughter, father/daughter, men and women as friends, men and women as more than friends, and the different types of relationships that exist between girlfriends.
