by Shirley Mowat Tucker
Kirkus Review of Shirley Tucker’s “Diamonds in the Dust”
Here’s an important review from the famed book reviewing outfit Kirkus Reviews! Excerpt:
Opening with a chase and a violent thunderstorm, Tucker’s novel immediately grabs the reader’s attention. Ida Morgan rescues a young child from a storm-swollen river and, in helping the girl, inadvertently places herself in varying degrees of danger.
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An addictive storyline that pulls at the reader’s social conscience and sense of justice, delivered in an honest, humane manner.
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Straight out of South Africa comes the tale of Ida Morgan: her husband murdered, abandoned by God… Ida’s road to healing is paved by diamonds in the dust. Special Offer for the Dove Foundation!
International Christian Fiction Writers Interviews Shirley Tucker
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International Christian Fiction Writers published an interview with Shirley Tucker yesterday. You can read it here. It is worth checking it out, because they offer a way to win a free copy of the book!
Welcome, Shirley. As a fellow South African, I find it very exciting that Diamonds in the Dust, with its South African characters and setting, is being published by an American publisher. How did this come about?
Power of Story
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I receive emails from two people who write about the happenings in a neighboring country. The first person’s emails are rants against injustices in that country. Anger pours out as he expresses his dismay. The second writer simply but skillfully tells the stories of the offences and intolerances. Both want the world to know the…
The Dove Foundation Reviews Shirley Tucker’s “Diamonds in the Dust”
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The redemptive theme of this novel is powerful. It is a fairly quick read, at 179 pages. It’s interesting that Tucker reveals God mainly working through people in the novel, His hands extended if you will. The right people show up when they are needed. It also features the theme of facing one’s fears and part of the fear of the novel’s characters are due to the extreme poverty in certain areas in which the story takes place.
Review by blogger “Mystic Rose” of Diamonds in the Dust
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Here’s a review from a blogger: This book is a moving story about christian love, forgiveness and faith. The main character, Mrs. Morgan finds herself as a unwilling foster parent to a group of orphans. She friends them and becomes involved in a mystery of events that lead her into deeper and deeper involvement with…