Kirkus Review

A double-dip of Fundamentalist Christian witnessing and energetic Western homesteading. In Dove (1972), Robin Graham recounted his five years of sailing around the world; now, with wife Patti and two-year-old daughter Quimby, he's in Montana--looking not only for a way of life, but a way of believing. He is generous with the details of building a mountaintop cabin--hauling and peeling wood, chinking and well-digging--and the first winter's hardships and pleasures (melting snow in the bathtub for water, tobogganing). One sub-zero night the roof catches fire; but as soon as Patti prays for their home to be saved, the flames begin to shrink. (There are other miracles-including the time Patti wants to catch a fish to help a crippled man. . . .) The Grahams then go to Hollywood to meet Gregory Peck, who'd like to produce a picture based on Dove. He can be counted on, they decide, to see that there's no nudity, no provocative sex, no swearing or blasphemous language. At the film's London premiere, however, an extravagant Savoy banquet calls to mind ""Nero's Rome."" The succeeding years--1974-78--are not happy ones, The Grahams have moved off the mountain and overspent on another property; there are farming setbacks; Robin has bouts of depression; the two begin to spat. But Faith pulls them through. Hyperactive inspiration. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.