Family Memoirs and Good Books

I just finished reading a well written book titled A Place to Call Home by Mary Ellen Stelling and Peter James Stelling. It is a novelization of one family's memoirs and it made me wonder why more books like this are not written. Writers seek inspiration in so many places but often fail to find the treasure trove of material that stands before them.


What author Peter James Stelling has done with Mary Ellen Stelling's family sketches is nothing short of remarkable. He has taken events which might have been lost or forgotten and recorded them for posterity. He has recalled a past where so many of the same questions about life and happiness exist today and he does it in a grand and eloquent style.


A Place to Call Home could be a primer on how an author can find inspiration simply by looking homeward.


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