Choices

"Settle, who herself left college near the start of World War Two to enlist in the British Royal Air Force, has written a novel that reads like an eyewitness account of a journey through our century. But the artistic magic of 'Choices' lies in its details, how vivdly Settle gives that history local habitation and names. We see the coal-streaked faces and hear the fighter planes engines, sniff both the magnolias and the terror. More than that, though, there is the wisdom, experience and compassion of this richly human tapestry, this saga of a woman whose heart seems to beat in constant sympathy with the hearts of others, a woman of whom Mary Lee Settle writes: 'The day her heart refused to creak and break a little, was the day she wanted to be dead.'"Settle, Mary Lee is the author of 'Choices', published 1996 under ISBN 9780156003889 and ISBN 0156003880.