Whistling Season

Can't cook but doesn't bite. So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an A-1 housekeeper sound morals exceptional disposition that draws the attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. That unforgettable season deposits the ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother Morris Morgan in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the promise of the Big Ditch--a gargantuan irrigation project intended to make the Montana prairie bloom. <strong><br/><br/></strong>When the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher Morris is pressed into service setting the stage for the several kinds of education--none of them of the textbook variety--Morris and Rose will bring to Oliver his three sons and the rambunctious students in the region's one-room schoolhouse. <br/><br/>Flawless...<em>The Whistling Season</em> is a book that strives for more than beauty which it achieves it reaches for joy.--<em>O the Oprah Magazine</em>