Title: IT HAPPENED
AT THE FAIR
Author: Deeanne
Gist
Publisher: Howard
Books
April 2013
ISBN: 978-1451692372
Genre: Historical
Gambling
everything—including the family farm—Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893
Chicago World’s Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the
fair’s Machinery Hall makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers.
In an act of desperation, he hires Della Wentworth, a teacher of the deaf, to
tutor him in the art of lip-reading.
The young teacher
is reluctant to participate, and Cullen has trouble keeping his mind on his
lessons while intently watching her lips. Like the newly invented Ferris wheel,
he is caught in a whirl between his girl back home, his dreams as an inventor,
and his unexpected attraction to his new tutor. Can he keep his feet on the
ground, or will he be carried away?
IT HAPPENED AT THE
FAIR by Deeanne Gist is simply awesome. There aren’t many historical writers
who grip my attention enough to make me set aside life for awhile and simply
read. I didn’t get much done today, but I read IT HAPPENED AT THE FAIR from
start to finish.
I had the Advance
Reader Copy to read, and I laughed because apparently the author writes without
vowels. Most of the words I figured out easily enough. Some, I never did get.
Lllnnn. Or Ddds. I’m sorry. That means what? I hope this is corrected in the
finished book.
I totally fell in
love with Cullen and with Della and with a little girl named Kitty. I almost
cried during a couple scenes in the book, so if you cry easily (I don’t) you
will need a box of tissues. IT HAPPENED AT THE FAIR is a book you simply cannot
miss. There is plenty of sexual tension in the book. There is also a long note
from the author explaining all the liberties she took as an author, and what really
happened-or didn’t, as the case may be. Discussion questions and an interview
are included at the end of the book.
Don’t miss IT
HAPPENED AT THE FAIR. $15.99. 432 pages. 5 stars.
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