Not Just a Homemaker: The Extraordinary Life of Sheila MacGregor

Read this if you like your dual-timeline historical fiction with a strong sense of place and an everywoman's zeal.

At the end of her remarkable life of ninety-three years, spanning a world war and three continents, Sheila MacGregor Beals donates her beautiful, forested property to create a nature preserve.

In the year before the park opens, Meg, a resourceful librarian who has moved to Indiana to escape an abusive husband, is renting the farmhouse where Sheila once lived. Almost a century sep...