Helpful Score: 1
This is a sad tale about Rose's life during the years right after leaving Rocky Ridge Farm in Missouri and moving to California. The cover illustration has nothing to do with the story, and is rather misleading because this book deals with Rose becoming a city girl in an era when most people traveled by train or street car. Rose seems to be very isolated in California, and her few friends are a sordid crowd from which she meets her future husband, Gillette Lane. After falling in love & marrying, Gillette becomes mixed up in several financial schemes causing the couple to have legal and personal issues. Rose has to deal with much of the aftermath on her own, as she realizes the magnitude of her husband's actions. The book left me with such a desolate feeling.
