Book Review: Skip Rock Shallows
I just finished a book from Tyndale Publishing House that I loved. I felt drawn to request Skip Rock Shallows by Jan Watson because it takes place in the mountains of Kentucky in a coal mining camp. I couldn’t help but think of my father and grandparents and the stories that granny told us of life in the mountains. Newly graduated from medical school, Dr. Lilly Corbett returns to the mountains of Kentucky to complete her internship before joining her fiancĂ©, Paul, who is completing his residency in Boston. Her life is all planned out. She discovers however that her heart is not aligned with her head. She is drawn to these people. She earns their respect and she questions her decision to leave Skip Rock at the end of her internship. These people need her and she needs them. While struggling to establish herself as the coal camp doctor, she “crosses path with a handsome miner-one who seems oddly familiar.” I loved this book. Perhaps I loved it because, while reading it, I kept