 ANN H. GABHART
Next release: Angel Sister (February) Publisher: Revell (Baker Publishing Group) How was writing Angel Sister different from writing your Shaker novels? In my Shaker novels, the history focuses on the Shakers’ very different lifestyle and religion along with whatever was happening in the nation during the time of the story. Angel Sister has a historical background as well with its Great Depression-era setting along with flashbacks to a World War I romance. So history is threaded throughout both the Shaker books and Angel Sister. Different stories, different settings, different histories, different characters, but my way of writing those stories was much the same.  Where did you get the idea for this book?
The inspiration for Angel Sister came directly from the many stories my mother and her sisters told me about growing up during the ’30s. They would talk about the abundance of odd characters in their community and about how happy they were in spite of the hard times because of the love they had for one another. Any advice for Christian retailers? Angel Sister is a story of family with characters who struggle with the same problems many people are struggling with today—addiction, the loss of a way to make a living, family sickness and division, secrets from the past, questions of faith. At the same time, it is a joyful story of how love and faith in God can see a family through personal hard times and national hard times as well.
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