"The Believers" by Janice Holt Giles, published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston. First Book Club Edition, 1957.

With The Believers, Giles continues her series about the settling of Kentucky with a moving story of love and marriage set in a Shaker community.

Original dust jacket [some wear and creases]; hard boards with red lettering on spine [a little edge wear]; 5.3/4" x 8.3/4"; 'Jean Hazzard' is pen written on top of the front endpaper; 214 pages, very good condition.

Rebecca Fowler is only seventeen when she marries Richard Cooper. She cannot remember a time when she has not loved and trusted him and followed where he led. At first the marriage is happy; it is only after their child is stillborn that Richard shows preliminary signs of religious fanaticism in his insistence that this is God's punishment visited upon them. The Shaker missionaries newly arrived in Kentucky find him an easy convert…

In this novel, Mrs. Giles gives us a unique picture of everyday life in a Shaker village, one of the experiments in utopian communal living that are a part of American history. Realistically but with understanding, she shows us a society animated not only by saintliness but by bigotry and ordinary human frailties.

Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.

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