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    The House on Tenafly Road: The Tenafly Road Series, #1

    By Adrienne Morris

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    When morphine-addicted Civil War veteran John Weldon marries into the comfortably suburban McCullough family on the eve of Reconstruction and the Indian Wars, life gets complicated. How will Weldon hide his addiction from the family he resents and admires, keep his standing in the army and find the strength to survive the tragedies that come with loving others? John Weldon spends a lifetime journeying across the frontier only to find that he already has a home.

    *Historical Novel Society Editors' Choice

    "The various members of the McCullough family are portrayed with careful detail and some moments of unexpected humor, but it's the tortured John Weldon who commands the book; his slow and halting search for personal redemption makes for mesmerizing reading.

    . . . extremely evocative.

    . . . a long and very satisfyingly complex novel. "

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAdrienne Morris
    Release dateMar 28, 2013
    ISBN9781481839532
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    The House on Tenafly Road: The Tenafly Road Series, #1
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    Adrienne Morris

    Adrienne Morris is author of the novel The House on Tenafly Road (selected as an Editors' Choice Book by The Historical Novel Society and a Notable Indie Book of the Year) and The Tenafly Road Series which continues the family saga of the Weldon and Crenshaw families of Gilded Age Englewood, New Jersey. Adrienne also milks goats, chases chickens and sometimes keeps her dogs off the table.  

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    • 4/5
      I wouldn't say this was one of the more uplifting books i've read, and yet i let myself get immersed into the lives of the characters, the Weldons and the Mculloughs, as you will too. There is just something about them that is so imperfectly real that it keeps you going thru all 600 + pages. Well, that and the details of military life and society during the post Civil War era .... The picture on the cover? A needle used for injections...and in this case, morphine. Many of the soldiers who lived, were addicts or alcoholics thru no fault of their own....a sad but true medical statement of the times. And.... its lasting influence is felt throughout the book.
    • 5/5
      After his service in the Civil War, Sergeant John Weldon, haunted and nearly shattered by his experiences on and off the battlefield (which left him with lingering acute pain and a morphine addiction), makes his way to the picturesque new village of Englewood in New Jersey at the invitation of the spirited and welcoming McCullough family. He falls in love with the daughter of the house, fiercely intelligent and compassionate Kate, but he’s traumatized by the war and its aftereffects, and in the course of a long and very satisfyingly complex novel, Morris throws dozens of obstacles in the path of their relationship (including some extremely evocative flashbacks of Weldon’s war memories).The various members of the McCullough family are portrayed with careful detail and some moments of unexpected humor, but it’s the tortured John Weldon who commands the book; his slow and halting search for personal redemption makes for mesmerizing reading. Recommended. Steve Donoghue Historical Novel Society EDITORS" CHOICE PICK