Product Description
Tom wants land to call his own, and Ginny knows she can’t manage her ageing father’s farm by herself. They enjoy a mutual attraction, but their obsessions always end up in the way. It’s not until Tom lies at the mercy of a disease, that Ginny realises her truest pleasure…. More >>
#1 by Anonymous on July 2, 2010 - 7:04 pm
This book is a must read by everyone with a soul! Ginny and Tom become a part of your being as you read and live through their struggles of life in the early 1900’s. I have reflected many hours about Ginny’s revelation of ‘The Truest Pleasure’ at the end of the book. A wrenching tale about love, spirit, and inner reflection.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Anonymous on July 2, 2010 - 8:39 pm
Believe it or not, Robert Morgan may be the first man to be in touch with his “feminine side”. The Truest Pleasure illuminates life on the farm, motherhood and the complexity of marriage, all too well. This book is a rare gift, which gives the reader an excellent view of how a woman may feel in the everyday life of her marriage. If you are stumbling in your own marriage, bored with a relationship, or tired with the daily grind, give this book a chance to open your eyes.
Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on July 2, 2010 - 9:50 pm
The Truest Pleasure is quite simply a pleasure to read. Robert Morgan writes like a dream. I’m going to look for more of his work. It’s evident he’s a poet, too, but the writing never becomes precious as it may with poets who also write fiction. This is just beautiful writing, pure and simple, with a story that is touching. The ending took my breath away. A real delight.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by J. Green on July 2, 2010 - 11:17 pm
Mr. Morgan is a man in touch with his feminine side! Like in Gap Creek, his ability to relate what a woman feels in times of marriage, childbirth, ect., is amazing. This book centers around Ginny and her husband Tom and their relationship. Ginny’s true to God. Tom’s true to the land and sometimes, the two don’t mesh. Morgan’s talent of describing everything from the air his characters are breathing to the pain Ginny is experiencing during labor is unbelievable. Truly a gifted writer.
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Katherine Neis on July 3, 2010 - 1:59 am
It is the late 1800’s. Ginny is a young girl who loves to read, help out around her pa’s farm and attend revival meetings at the arbor. She is tall and gangly and so does not expect to be courted or to marry like other girls. But when Tom comes to work on a neighbors farm, Ginny finds herself intrigued by him. He is broad and strong, a hard, passionate worker and a man of few words. Shortly thereafter, they marry and begin their life together. Morgan chronicles their sorrows and happiness’s, their sorrows and joys. It is the simple life they live where a woman should be content to have healthy children and a home to care for and a man should be satisfied to work hard and see progress. But, of course, real life never pans out that easy and the story culminates with a spell-binding, shocking ending. Brilliantly written and passionately told, this is, without a doubt, the best book I’ve read since Wally Lamb’s I Know This Much Is True.
Rating: 5 / 5