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How do we, as children, respect our godly, well-meaning parents and yet insist on finding out God’s will for ourselves even when it seem to clash with theirs? Or how can we parents know when it is time to let our children go even if it seems the most risky thing on earth to do?

This novel, by Trudy Harvey Tait, is written from the viewpoint a young woman who struggles to find her own spiritual feet while still locked in step with her very devoted, very sincere, and very controlling father. She adores, respects, and fears him, and yet she longs to discover her own voice–be her own person. This involves choosing where she will worship,  what she will do with her life, and the type of man she wants to marry. “Love me and let me go! she pleads with those who love her best. And when they, very reluctantly, do just that, she discovers, in the end, that true spiritual freedom is only found through capitulating to the will of God.