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“I adored stepping into to the world of the Prines through tough-as-rawhide Mary Pearl. Light Changes Everything is a novel as gritty and authentic as the women of the Arizona Territory. Nancy E. Turner brings the west and its people fully to life.” –Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours

Bestselling author Nancy E. Turner returns to the world of Sarah Agnes Prine through the wide-eyes of her irrepressible young niece, Mary Pearl.

It’s the summer of 1907 and the sun is scorching down on Mary Pearl in the Arizona Territory. Mary Pearl and her sister Esther take their minds off the heat by sneaking banned Jane Austen novels from Aunt Sarah Elliot’s lively bookshelf. Whispered read alouds preoccupy their nights, and reveries of getting hitched to their own Mr. Darcy à la Pride and Prejudice swirl through their day dreams.

In walks old-fashioned old-money suitor Aubrey Hanna, here to whisk seventeen year old Mary Pearl off her feet with a forbidden kiss and hasty engagement. With the promise of high society outings and a rich estate, Aubrey’s lustful courtship quickly creates petty tension among the three generations of Prine women.

As autumn approaches all too quickly, Mary Pearl’s Wheaton College acceptance counters quick marriage preparations. Days of travel by horse and by train carry her deep into a sophisticated new world of Northern girls’ schooling. Seeking friendship but finding foes, Mary Pearl not only learns how to write, read, and draw, but also how to act, dress, and be a woman.

Light Changes Everything is the story of a resilient young feminist a century ahead of her time. Full of gumption and spirit, Mary Pearl’s evocative coming of age tale is destined to be the next American classic.

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"Years ago, I loved These is my Words, and I adored stepping back into to the world of the Prines through tough-as-rawhide Mary Pearl. Light Changes Everything is a novel as gritty and authentic as the women of the Arizona Territory. Nancy E. Turner brings the west and its people fully to life."
--Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours

Nancy E. Turner (of the wildly popular Sarah Agnes Prine series) returns with her signature warmth and an Aunt Sarah to boot. I dare you not to be charmed by this sweet tale of a woman finding her way at the dawn of a new century. Light Changes Everything illuminates the heart of an American family and highlights its historic glow.
--Sarah McCoy, New York Times bestselling author of Marilla of Green Gables

I was captivated from the start by Mary Pearl's independence and grit, and I loved the strong thread of family loyalty that knits together her far-flung adventures throughout the Arizona territory, up to Chicago for art school, and down to Mexico for revenge. I was thrilled by her moments of bravery and moved to tears by her losses. As I turned the last page, I felt I was saying goodbye to a real friend rather than closing the book on a fictional character, so vividly did Nancy Turner portray her remarkable heroine.
--Kim van Alkemade, New York Times bestselling author of Orphan #8 and Bachelor Girl

The key characters of this lovely family saga are even more compelling than the story's title. The real, regional voice pulls the reader right into an emotional read that is poignant and ultimately wise. Light Changes Everything is a story that stays with you for all the right reasons.
--Karen Harper, New York Times bestselling author

Mary Pearl Prine is a western original. Her spirit and pluckiness are infectious. Filled with Arizona Territory detail and language, Nancy E. Turner's Light Changes Everything, the story of a young woman too self-confident to be beaten down by frontier challenges, promises to become a Wild West classic.
--Sandra Dallas, New York Times bestselling author

Nancy E. Turner's tale of an endearingly plucky young woman in the wild Arizona Territory in the early 1900's is chock full of family feuds, intrigue, heartache, gumption, and adventure. Colorful, thoroughly enjoyable, and as fast-moving as a band of horses galloping across the desert, Light Changes Everything is a delight.
--Kristin Harmel, international bestselling author of The Room on Rue Amélie

Turner's satisfying, immersive, and often heart-pounding tale of one indomitable young woman's frontier life, touched by tragedy and hope, is realistically drawn, and readers will warm to her portrayal of Mary Pearl's chaotic but loving family life. Fans of the popular Sarah Agnes Prine novels and new readers alike will fall in love with the smart and spirited Mary Pearl.
--Publishers Weekly

--This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Bestselling author Nancy E. Turner returns to the world of Sarah Agnes Prine through the wide-eyes of her irrepressable young niece, Mary Pearl. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

ASIN : B07S9MHR2M
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books (14 January 2020)
Language : English
File size : 5078 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 296 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 1250756529

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- 3,283 in Small Town & Rural Fiction (Books)
- 5,133 in Women's Fiction About Domestic Life

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Historical Fiction American Western

Reviewed in Australia on 5 February 2020

Summer of 1907, it's stinking hot in the Arizona Territory and Mary Pearl is feeling the heat. Mary Pearl and her sister Esther are secretly reading at night the banned Jane Austen novels they have smuggled home from their Aunt Sarah Elliot’s book shelves.

Around the same time, seventeen year old Mary Pearl meets Aubrey Hanna, he's a smooth talker, snappy dresser and rich. Has Mary Pearl discovered her own Mr Darcy and he's everything a seventeen year old girls romantic dreams are made of? He sweeps her of her feet, he kisses her a couple of times and before she knows it she's engaged.

Mary Pearl’s has always wanted to be an artist and she's not planning on being stuck home looking after her little brothers Zachary and Ezra forever. Wheaton College sends her a offer to study art, she accepts and in a flurry of activity she's ready to leave. Mary Pearl starts her journey, she rides her horse Duende, and also travels by train to begin her lessons at the fancy Northern school. Here Mary Pearl's formal education begins, she's taught, history, Latin, sculpture, drawing, history, oil painting and photography. Mary Pearl is a bit like a fish out of water and she doesn't have a lot in common with the other girly girls at school. She keeps in contact with Aubrey, they write letters to each other and she too busy studying to worry about how their long distance relationship is going?

Light Changes Everything is a delightful story about the spunky Mary Pearl, she's a real character, as you would expect from a girl who has grown up riding horses, wearing a stetson and she can shoot a gun. Mary Pearl grows up in the book, by studying, meeting new people, living in a world very different from her home and from a tragic experience that happens to her. Granny also has given Mary Pearl responsibility/gift of keeping her diaries safe, she's to write her memoirs and only when her Granny meets her maker! I loved how the familiar characters of, Aunt Sarah, Granny, Ma, Pa, Zachary, Ezra, Rachel are included in the new book and also we are introduced to a new cowboy character called Brody Cooperhead.

I'm not going to give too much away about the story as I really don't want to spoil it for anyone and it's a truly delightful book. Nancy E. Tuner has done it again and Light Changes Everything made me laugh, cry, smile and I didn't want it to end. A brilliant book, absolutely perfect and I gave it five big stars!

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Rennie Coleman

If you've read the 1st 3 in the series, there is a bad road ahead.

Reviewed in the United States on 19 February 2020

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Have read the 1st 3 books in the series & all were very good to excellent. I plodded through the 1st 2 chapters in this, the 4th in the series, & had to put it down. My expectations for an author & series is that each fact, each book, builds the story as it unfolds in time. The SAME story. I expect the author to keep track of what came before: the plot, the facts, the context, the character development as they evolve in their timelines. I understand that the occasional typo or error is going to pop up which should have been caught by the editor & proof reader, but this is ridiculous. Sloppy context. Missing/changed plot/story/facts. Over and over. The voice of the narrator who is telling the story may as well be a new & never before seen character. What in the world is up with this? Where is the Author AND editor? Didn't they take the time to reread the previous books or check the chronological order of things or the existing facts, connotations, & palette? To those who have NOT read the previous 3 books, this might be OK. But if you have read the 1st 3, this book is so sloppily done as to drive even the average reader batty. To the new reader, take a pass on this one as it really doesn't fit, & there is nothing that the author can do to correct the damage wrought. But, buy & read the 1st 3 as they are quality historical fiction & very well written. The editor/publisher should be fired for this breach of trust with the readers.

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Chesney Hoagland-Fuchs

Please Write More!

Reviewed in the United States on 19 January 2020

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My sister and I have gobbled up the four novels from My Name Is Resolute through Sarah's Quilt, Star Garden and The Light Changes Everything and thoroughly enjoyed the beautiful writing and discussed it in depth
What a talent, Nancy Turner! More please! As a desert dweller in the Southwest, I really enjoyed the description of how it was settled, the desert flora,animals, people and weather as well as the importance of the Butterfield Stage

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L. Nicholas

A fun and fast read. A character-driven novel

Reviewed in the United States on 15 July 2020

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This is one of those novels where I welcomed the inclusion of an epilogue. Just like wanting to find out what old friends have been up to since the last time I saw them, I wanted to know how things worked out for the extended Prine family. The epilogue was very satisfying.

Even though this book is filled with life being lived to the hilt, with more than its share of excitement and drama, I would still call this a quiet book. By quiet I mean “a character-driven novel”, which is my favorite kind of read. I love slice-of-life books, and this one delivered just that. I enjoyed every minute of Light Changes Everything. And, as an amateur photographer, I appreciated Turner’s choice of title and the meaning behind it, which applied to photography as much as to one’s understanding of the people and the world around you.

It took me a few pages to get into the voice of the young Mary Prine, but the nuances of her speech and her “countrified” outlook really grew on me quickly. I don’t think this story couldn’t have been told from any perspective but Mary Prine's. If she lived in today’s world, in a large city, she might be described as being naive but having street smarts. She was a combination of innocence, toughness, humility, strength, curiosity, and intelligence. It was her clarity of thought that singled her out from the herd of young women of her time and circumstance.

Light Changes Everything presents life, in the raw, in the Arizona Territory of around 1910. Since I live in Tucson, I’m familiar with every place mentioned and, just like in These is My Words by the same author, I loved being able to visualize the familiar through the eyes of someone living in this area back when everything here was new and wild. I had to chuckle at the comment that the "little widening in the road" that was called Phoenix would never amount to anything. I also loved Turner's spot-on descriptions of the things that haven’t changed, like the pounding heat, the smell of a monsoon brewing, and the saguaros in silhouette against a desert sunset.

Through Mary Prine, Turner shines an interesting light on Jane Austen’s novels and the affect Austen's words and ideology might have had on a young woman sequestered in the wilds of the Arizona Territory, back in 1910. Mention of Jane Austen’s work is a light thread through the book, but returns at the end as a major life lesson, one most young girls today could benefit from. To quote, “A girl needs to have her wits founded on the real things around her, not some made up world…she was wrong writing that happiness came with a man with money…” Don’t want to quote more because I don’t want to spoil her thoughts for the next reader.

This is a fast and fun read, and I highly recommend adding Light Changes Everything to your TBR book pile.

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Retired and Reading

How I loved this!!!

Reviewed in the United States on 5 February 2020

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I have liked every one of Nancy Turner's books, starting with "These Is My Words". I shared that w/my Dad years ago. He loved it, too, but sadly passed before being able to read more of her stories. Anyhoo, this is a fascinating and very readable story which made me, the reader, want to keep on reading until done, but sleep and life kept interrupting! So enjoyable! And admirable young heroine and family. People were much tougher back then. I think every generation loses some grit. Oh well. I highly recommend just for enjoyment. Hope there will be more.

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By the sea

A marvelous addition to my library!

Reviewed in the United States on 22 February 2020

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I had been breathlessly awaiting a new title from Ms. Turner, and was thrilled with this one! The characters are well developed and realistic; the story builds as Mary Pearl matures, and the descriptions of life in the Arizona desert are stunning! I loved every page of this book and was sad when it ended. I've already read it twice! Loved this book! Love all of Ms. Turner's work!

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