Willa Cather

This book is about a railway pioneer, in the small town of Sweet Water. Marion Forrester brings delight to her elderly husband, and it is based in the small town of Sweet Water where they live: Neil Herbert who is the young narrator of her story. Neil falls in love with her as a boy and later becomes the person who he confides in. He watches this woman in all facets of her life, through faithless and yet steadfast; dazzling and yet pathetic; invincible and yet she becomes dangerously vulnerable to the men she seems to charm. ..read more

This story is so fantastic in that you need to read to the end to learn of what the people went through and how Antonia decides to buy up land and then succeeds where others have failed.

I loved this book and just had to read some more of her books - you can see my other reviews on the website.

This is a completly different type to the other books I have read by Willa Cather. Professor St Peter has built a new house on the proceed's of his life 's works - that is eight volume history of the Spanish Explorers!