If You Believe: A Novel Mass Market Paperback – December 4, 1993

Her books are all interesting & keep you involved.

In the back of this book Kristin Hannah writes that this was a difficult and painful book to write because of some tragedy in her own life or others who are close to her. I believe that many books are given to authors as a means of healing or comfronting a situation that we are having a hard time making peace with and finding answers through the written word. Sometimes just writing out a problem and looking at it in a whole different way enables us to get a different perspective on things. The idea of the panic that Mariah has when she attemps to open the gate to the farm and leave it's safe confines is one that I have struggled with myself. Mariah is keeping a secret, one that has left her frozen in emotions and movement. A special man occupies her life (her father) and when another shows up she is very reluctant to let him in. Then a young man, Jake, joins them which brings out the mother in her for the child that she lost and is never spoken of.Her father's death and Jake removing the fence that keeps her issolated helps her to move forward. When Mad Dog returns with promises to stay forever she is strong enough to make a heartfelt decision to marry him.I did enjoy this book, not as much as some of her others, but discovering a new author is always exciting!

I loved the nostalgia of the times riding boxcar ….freedom of the road….the characters are the bestThe facts about life and real love Hope & hardship.The story about real people lives those who aren’t perfect find what they need most —— each other .

Kristin Hannah is one of my favorite authors. I've read most of her books with the exception of her first five or so. Her stories are captivating, her characters are well developed and likeable and she pays great attention to detail, especially in her historical fiction novels. Clearly her skills have evolved since this book, but I still found it enjoyable. But seriously, this Kindle version is virtually unformatted. Double spacing, random letters here and there, "Chapter Five" is literally in the middle of a paragraph. Not acceptable!!

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I didn't want to put it down. I even stopped doing puzzles so I could read. A beautiful story!This is the first book of Kirstins that had so many mistakes in it. One thing was Mariah's name would change to Marian. Weird!There were other things, too.But the story kept me interested! Loved it!

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