A Rose By the Door

What Mel Gibson's latest movie, Signs, tried to do but did not quite pull off. This book is thought-provoking and surprising, fast-paced, a fine read. It is one of the most realistic stories I've ever read to look at honest disappointment and honest faith. Is there really a God, or do you think everything around us is left to chance? Bea Bartling has been praying for her son to come home and her prayers are not answered the way she thinks they should be. Instead, sometimes you find out that the one is charge of everything knows more about what we need then we do.The characters are plausible and the dialogue is good. I will look for more books by this author.

Thank you, Deborah Bedford for writing a book that is wholesome and interesting. I am a stay at home mom, and even though I was interrupted regularly while reading this book, I was always eager to pick it up again and find out what was going to happen next. It kept my interest and was never hard to get back into once I had put it down. The story of the roses is fascinating. This is ultimately a book about a woman's faith in God and how her relationship with God was tested during a difficult time in her life. The book does a good job of tying everything together. I would highly recommend it!

Congratulations to romance-writer Bedford for penning a novel that reaches beyond genre fiction and touches the reader where it counts...in the gut. I read this book because my mother grows Harison's Yellow roses in Michigan and I was fascinated that this author wrote a book that centered on the subject. This is a story about a woman who has lost all hope, until a young woman and her daughter show up on her doorstep to change her life. I laughed, I thought of my brother who has lost his son, and I rooted for Bea Bartling all the way through. A highly recommended read.

This is a book about a woman who meets a stranger at her door, a young woman and her daughter, and these two people change her life. She begins to hope where before she had seen only the bad parts of life. The book starts out in a sad way. The first three chapters made me cry, and then I began to see all the good things the author was saying about God. This book has some really funny parts, too. The characters feel very real, like people I know in my own town. If you like to laugh and you like to cry, you will love this book!

This is one of the best books I've read in a long time. It made me laugh and it made me cry. It made me think about myself in new ways. This writer has done some others that I like, but I think this is by far my favorite. It's set in a small town in Nebraska. It reminds me little bit of Billie Lett's Where The Heart Is. Do yourself a favor and don't miss this. It is a Christian book and it's the first one I've ever read. Now I can't wait until Bedford writes the next one.