Giveaway: The Angel Connection by Judith Anne Barton
Thanks to Darlene K. Chan, Publicist, I am giving away one copy of The Angel Connection.
Book Description:
In this romantic thriller, mysterious convergences link two lives separated by 100 years.
In 1996, after her reputation, marriage, career as a TV journalist and relationship with her adult son, Chad, are trashed, Morgan Reed starts over in Milltown, Pa., a village in beautiful Bucks County. She feels drawn there, particularly to the 200-year-old former rectory that she buys.
In 1996, after her reputation, marriage, career as a TV journalist and relationship with her adult son, Chad, are trashed, Morgan Reed starts over in Milltown, Pa., a village in beautiful Bucks County. She feels drawn there, particularly to the 200-year-old former rectory that she buys.
In 1895, Evangeline Laury, minister’s wife and mother to a small boy, feels stifled in provincial Milltown. She misses the cultured life she’d led in Philadelphia and her painting, especially when she learns that a local American impressionist, the charismatic Daniel Duvall, is giving lessons.
As Morgan, with the help of her handsome but mercurial neighbor Victor, works on a documentary about 1895 Milltown, she uncovers more spooky parallels between her life and Evangeline’s. Both women, desperate for love and connection, are guiltily caught between competing attractions and responsibilities, whether for a husband, lover, child or work, and both women will experience the tragic death of someone close.
In her debut novel, Barton writes lush descriptions of beauty and desire, with interesting historical details, many of which seem borrowed from real-life American impressionist painter Daniel Garber and his Bucks County studio at Cuttalossa Farm. (Black-and-white historical photos in the book go uncredited.) Though the narrative works to account for Morgan’s needy self-pity and Evangeline’s blind desire, readers might feel less sympathy than the writer intends, especially since other characters pay the ultimate price for the women’s culpability. In particular, deeply emotional Evangeline’s self-punishing guilt becomes internal melodrama. When Victor very reasonably objects to involving sullen, hard-drinking Chad on the documentary project, it’s a welcome moment of sensibleness: “It is not my problem to save your son.”
Emotional, doom-tinged and spooky, with two deeply flawed heroines.
Emotional, doom-tinged and spooky, with two deeply flawed heroines.
On Writing The Angel Connection:
“Disillusioned
by my own recent divorce, yet still a romantic at heart, I was inspired to
write the perfect love story-one that I would fall into as a reader. Like my
modern day protagonist Morgan, I had just relocated -- escaped is more like it!
-- to a quaint historic village in Bucks County Pennsylvania. The achingly
beautiful countryside, coupled with the spirits of artists who had flocked
there for centuries seeking a muse, set the stage for a compelling, timeless,
mystical love story. My immersion in yoga and eastern spiritualism sparked the
idea for parallel universes: two creative women, born a century apart, living
in the same house, unable to reconcile their artistic passion with the
obligations of family and the longing for true love. The intriguing prospect of
re-incarnation was in place.” – Judith Anne Barton
About Judith Anne Barton:
Judith Anne Barton is a novelist, actress, playwright and award-winning television journalist. The Angel Connection is her debut novel. After a successful career in broadcast journalism in Philadelphia that spanned over a decade, Barton moved to Bucks County, PA where she worked with her mentor, the late JP Miller, author of the classic The Days of Wine and Roses. Her first play Opening Night received its world premiere at Philadelphia’s Lantern Theatre Company, and was named a finalist in the Sundance Film Lab competition.She is the co-author of The Best Letter Book and is also a published poet. Barton now resides in Los Angeles where she also pursues an acting career in film and television. Her sons, William Wheeler (The Reluctant Fundamentalist) and Thomas Wheeler (Puss in Boots, Puss in Boots II) are successful screenwriters.
Facebook: /judithannebarton
Twitter: @jabartonbooks
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/JudithAnneBarton
This giveaway is open to Canada and the U.S. and ends on September 13, 2013. The winner has the choice of print or ebook.
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