Book Notes

Margaret Hope Bacon '43 brings us Year of Grace: A Novel, a poignant and courageous tale of an elderly but active Quaker woman coming to terms with her own mortality in the final year of her life. The author has created a truly inspirational character, Faith Smedley, whose spiritual life, based on a strong Quaker foundation, is reflected at the culmination of her earthly life in a remarkable “year of grace.” Tracing family history, continuing to be outspoken about social justice and white privilege, and tending to the generation coming of age are some of the themes in this novel.

Margaret Hope Bacon is the author of many books about Quaker history and biography including Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America, Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott, Abby Hopper Gibbons: Prison Reformer and Social Activist, Love is the Hardest Lesson: A Memoir, and The Quiet Rebels.

Year of Grace is published by Quaker Press of FGC and distributed by QuakerBooks, available online at www.quakerbooks.org.

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