The Excellent Lombards

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The Excellent Lombards By Jane Hamilton Reviews

The Excellent Lombards by Jane Hamilton - Goodreads The Excellent Lombards is, as my father would say, "a keeper." It has been several months since I have read a book that I enjoyed as much as this delightful and insightful coming of age story by Jane Hamilton. Mary Francis Lombard of The Excellent Lombards, moves from childhood through high school on a Wisconsin apple farm, Hamilton's home turf. The Excellent Lombards: Jane Hamilton: 9781455564200 ... The Excellent Lombards is a a coming of age story of a precocious young girl growing up on a Wisconsin apple farm. The story revolves around difficult family relationships and how each person deals with them. The ending did not tie up any of the many loose ends and was very unsatisfying. THE EXCELLENT LOMBARDS by Jane Hamilton Kirkus Reviews A Wisconsin girl reluctantly comes of age in Hamiltons tender and rueful latest (Laura Rider's Masterpiece, 2009, etc.).A suspenseful opening chapter, with the Lombards racing to get their freshly baled hay into the barn before the clouds overhead let loose the rain that would ruin it, deftly sets the scene for the fraught family drama that follows.