Mount Hope
An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
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4.9 • 9 Ratings
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- $4.99
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Publisher Description
When her father can no longer provide for his large family, Fanny Price is sent away from her small Amish community in Colorado to live with her aunt's family in Mount Hope, Ohio. Fanny immediately feels out of place at the Bontrager farm but finds a friend in her aunt's stepson, Elijah Bontrager.
As time passes, Fanny begins to long for their friendship to blossom into something more, but her hopes are dashed when Elijah starts to court someone else. With her uncle pressuring her to marry a man who can take her off his hands, Fanny must learn to rely on God for her future.
Customer Reviews
MOUNT HOPE. by Sarah Price
Taken from Jane Austen book Mansfield Park. Showing the struggles of a large family and doing something to help feed them. Sending a ten year old Fanny to Ohio a long 23 hour drive. To a place she hasn't been nor to the two aunts / sisters of her Mother's. Neither welcome her, nor even want her in their home Sending her to school, when she had been home taught by her Mother. Later to having feelings for her aunt's stepson Elijah, he begins to court a girl. Then the uncle wants to marry her off, to get her off his hands. What is Fanny to do, but trust God. Another riveting book by Sarah Price. Given book by Net Galley for my honest opinion of which I have given