It is the summer of 1959 and Mariette Puttnam has just graduated from boarding school. When she returns to her privileged life at home, she isn’t sure where life will take her. More schooling? A job? Marriage? Nothing feels right. How could she know that the answer is waiting for her within the narrow stairwell of her father’s apparel factory, exactly between the third and fourth floors?
In this unique and tender story of an unlikely romance, popular author Eva Marie Everson takes readers on a journey through the heart of a young woman bound for the unknown. Readers will experience the joys of new love, the perseverance of true friendship, and the gift of forgiveness that comes from a truly fine life.
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Sexual Content - 2/5
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Violence - 1/5
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Language - 0/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 1/5
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Summary
Overall Set in the 1960s in Georgia, This Fine Life is the story of Mariette (who has recently graduated from high school) and her life with Thaynewhom she sneaks off to marry. Mariette has been in church all her lifeeven attended a Catholic schoolbut doesn't truly know God. When her new husband, Thayne decides to go into the ministry, she is beside herself trying to understand why he would do such a thing. His first assignment upon graduation from seminary is a tiny, godforsaken, rundown town miles from all that Mariette knows. But it is amongst these people, that Mariette finally understands the passion her husband and best friends have for the Lord, and she no
longer feels like she is always on the outside of life looking in.
Violence a fist fight
Language
Sexual within the confines of marriage primarily talk of sexual abuse
Drug & Alcohol social drinking primarily