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John Davis has a “dull aching sense of missing out, of not getting anywhere.” There must be millions like him, he thinks. His relations with his wife, Serena, are shallow and unsatisfying. In the late 1930s, he tries to rekindle their marriage by bringing her to a special place from his past—the Montana mountains. He is chagrined when she asks other people to join them on the camping trip. Plans are further disrupted by a catastrophe—a forest fire that rages uncontrolled for three days. Forced to reach outward to others in this crisis, the members of the party ultimately have to face themselves as well. Unless the Wind Turns is fast-moving and psychologically nuanced. Purchase the audio edition.

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You are either a Mildred Walker enthusiast or you are missing one of the best writers on the American scene. -Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia Inquirer Miss Walker knows all about forest fires and this is a monstrous and murdering one, most graphically described. -New York Times New York Times

You are either a Mildred Walker enthusiast or you are missing one of the best writers on the American scene. -Philadelphia Inquirer Miss Walker knows all about forest fires and this is a monstrous and murdering one, most graphically described. -New York Times

Smooth job of human relations effected and resolved by natural dangers and outside influences, done with a good woman's slant for discriminating rentals and sales. John, at odds with the pattern of ordered living laid down by his wife, Serena, is further incensed when their plans for a Rocky Mountain vacation are upset by too many additions (planned by Serena) to the party. A friend of his boyhood is to act as guide, and John adds yet another, Rose, whose husband is timbering in the section they are to visit. Then comes forest fire - and the refugee doctor whom Serena had idealized, is shown up in his true colors, and she finds out where, her happiness really lies and where her selfishness was leading. Not as big a novel as. The Brewers' Big Horses, but a good psychological novel with plenty of action. (Kirkus Reviews)

You are either a Mildred Walker enthusiast or you are missing one of the best writers on the American scene. -- Philadelphia Inquirer

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Deirdre McNamer is an associate professor of English at the University of Montana and the author of Rima in the Weeds and One Sweet Quarrel.

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