{"id":8883,"date":"2011-08-08T10:52:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T15:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/\/?p=8883"},"modified":"2011-08-08T10:52:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T15:52:34","slug":"the-hardest-thing-by-penelope-wilcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=8883","title":{"rendered":"The Hardest Thing by Penelope Wilcock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5500\/1432\/1600\/CFBAreviewer_gif.0.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: hand; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5500\/1432\/320\/CFBAreviewer_gif.0.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-size: 130%;\">This week, the<\/span><\/center><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfictionblogalliance.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">Christian Fiction Blog Alliance<\/span><\/a><\/center><center><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">is introducing<\/span><\/center><center><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 130%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1433526557\">The Hardest Thing<\/a><\/span><\/center><center>Crossway Books (July 31, 2011)<\/center><center>by<\/center><center><span style=\"color: #006600; font-size: 130%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kindredofthequietway.blogspot.com\/\">Penelope Wilcock<\/a><\/span><\/center><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JFRkthnulGU\/Tj8H5dkyEOI\/AAAAAAAAD_8\/r9WuSWp-btg\/s1600\/321.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JFRkthnulGU\/Tj8H5dkyEOI\/AAAAAAAAD_8\/r9WuSWp-btg\/s1600\/321.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>PENELOPE WILCOCK is a full-time author living in Hastings, Sussex, on the southeast coast of England. Her blog, Kindred of the Quiet Way, is about a simple and spiritual Christian lifestyle. Her other books in The Hawk and the Dove series are <em>The Hawk and the Dove<\/em>, <em>The Wounds of God<\/em>, and <em>The Long Fall<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong><strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>ABOUT THE BOOK:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Claxt2bI6Hg\/Tj8IFpEPdiI\/AAAAAAAAEAA\/M0GsiD8VE5Q\/s1600\/Hardest_Thing_To_Do.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Claxt2bI6Hg\/Tj8IFpEPdiI\/AAAAAAAAEAA\/M0GsiD8VE5Q\/s200\/Hardest_Thing_To_Do.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This latest in Wilcock\u2019s The Hawk and the Dove series takes readers into the world of a fourteenth-century monastery struggling to forgive an old enemy seeking refuge.<\/p>\n<p>The first of three sequels to the celebrated The Hawk and the Dove trilogy takes place one year after the end of the third book, in the early fourteenth century. A peaceful monastery is enjoying its new abbot, who is taking the place of Father Peregrine, when an old enemy arrives seeking refuge. Reluctantly taking in Prior William, the upended community must address old fears and bitterness while warily seeking reconciliation. But can they really trust Prior William?<\/p>\n<p>In her fourth book in the series, Penelope Wilcock wrestles with the difficulties of forgiveness and the cautions of building trust. Taking the form of journal entries, her story will delight the imaginations of readers captivated by a time and place far distant from our current world. Her timeless themes, however, will challenge our prejudices today as we, along with her characters, are forced to ask ourselves, \u201cWhat is the hardest thing to do?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to read the first chapter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1433526557\">The Hardest Thing<\/a>, go <a href=\"http:\/\/thestorybeginnings.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/hardest-thing-to-do-chapter-1.html\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, theChristian Fiction Blog Allianceis introducingThe Hardest ThingCrossway Books (July 31, 2011)byPenelope WilcockABOUT THE AUTHOR: PENELOPE WILCOCK is a full-time author living in Hastings, Sussex, on the southeast coast of England. Her blog, Kindred of the Quiet Way, is about a simple and spiritual Christian lifestyle. Her other books in The Hawk and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8891,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions\/8891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}