These Healing Hills by Ann Gabhart

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Set in Kentucky in the Appalachian Mountains during the time of the Frontier Nursing Service and the end of World War II comes a story that features love, adventure, and caring compassion. The Frontier Nursing Service was established by Mary Breckinridge and it still serves southeastern Kentucky and the midwifery school continues to train nurse-midwives. I really like when fiction books incorporate true history into their stories.

Francine Howard comes to the Frontier Nursing Service to run away from a botched relationship back home and, of course, you know what happens.

The book is more than that though too. There are tales of treating a moonshiner's accidental gunshot wound, Granny Em with her herbs and wisdom, a baby being born on the back of a truck in the middle of winter enroute to the hospital, and so on.

Francine embraces the mountain people, seeks to understand them and develops rich friendships because of that. She gets hopelessly lost very quickly in the mountains, but someone always comes along to rescue her.

There was a saying among the nurses that nobody comes there by accident. Isn't that true in life as well? We are not accidents. God has a plan for us and sometimes the way may seem muddled and we may feel lost, but God is there.

I enjoyed the book and thought it was well-written.

I received this book from Revell Publishers. A positive review was not required.

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