MISS MERRY, A Novel by Nora Stangland McNab

MISS MERRY

A Novel by Nora Stangland McNab
212 pages
6” x 9”
Softbound
$11.95
ISBN 0-942323-19-X

In Oregon’s centennial year of 1959, Bonnie Merrysong, a 50-year-old schoolteacher from Boston, is making a solitary auto trip across the United States when she stops for refreshments at a little place called Holly Town in eastern Oregon. She finds it has been designed to replace a village inundated by the Columbia River when a major dam was built. Fascinated by the town, she decides to stay the night and becomes acquainted with a member of the school board who urges her to spend the school year replacing a teacher who was recently killed in an auto accident. Bonnie is tempted by the offer. Would staying here help dispel the dark cloud hanging over her life? Could she possibly find peace of mind in this far away rural community among people so different from those she has known?" Nora McNab has given us another book which will hold your rapt attention to the last page. Then you’ll wish there was more.

Miss Merry has mystery, suspense and romance – all the elements which make for a good novel. It’s a reader’s delight to discover an author who can tell a first-class story which makes good reading for the whole family. I hope she will give us a sequel.” – Arland O. Fiske, Author, The Scandinavian Heritage and other Scandinavian titles.

Nora McNab, a graduate of Purdue University, has been a freelance writer for several years while raising a family and later conducting her country inn in Underwood, Washington. She now lives and writes in Portland, Oregon. Besides two cookbooks, other books by Mrs. McNab are: The Beckoning, historical fiction portraying her great-grandfather who came to New York in 1824 with the first migration of Norwegian families to America; and Onion Avenue, romance and reality on an onion farm in the black bottom land of northern Indiana and a sequel to The Beckoning.