Pages: 240 📖 Year Published: 1952 🕰️ Days to Complete: 7 Author: Madeline Babcock Smith published this, her first novel, in August of 1952 and unfortunately died in December of the same year at the age of 65. Smith was born in Rochester, Illinois and also lived in Springfield. Smith studied literature at the University of Illinois, married, and moved to Decatur, where she lived the rest of her life. Three words to describe this read: Nostalgic - While I haven’t lived throug