This was a really beautiful historical fiction set in The Great Depression. I loved the May and Dorrit. If you want a nice escape read, this is one to try. The tone and atmospheric writing had me having a difficult time putting it down. The author did her research for this, and it shows. Very enjoyable.

Having recently lost her mother, sixteen-year-old Dorrit Sykes questions the religious doctrine she was raised in. Dorrit is reclusive, held back by the anxiety attacks that have plagued her since childhood. Attempting to understand what limits her, she seeks inspiration in Nancy Drew mysteries and finds solace at the Boston Public Library, writing fairy stories for children. The library holds answers to both Dorrit's exploration of faith and her quest to understand and manage her anxiety. When Dorrit accompanies her father to Washington, DC, in the summer of 1932 to camp out and march with twenty thousand veterans intending to petition President Hoover for early payment of war bonuses, she begins an odyssey that will both traumatize and strengthen her.

The time period of this novel caught my eye. I haven’t read a lot of books set during the Great Depression, and wanted to see how the author handled the matter. It was very well done for me. I enjoyed the multiple POVs and felt so connected to the characters. For those who have read Kristin Hannah’s Four Winds, I think this book would be perfect for you!!

May returns home to Virginia after touring France with her husband to help with the family business during the Great Depression. Life is hard, but things begin to look up when the newspaper features the candy store.

This is an informative look at life during the Great Depression. The story is told alternating between May and Dorrit's points of view. The story is slow but picks up when May and Dorrit's stories start to connect. I liked the characters and how they endured hard things. There are situations that include suicide, the loss of a family member, and complex pregnancy issues. I would recommend this book to readers that enjoy reading historical fiction.

Thank you to NetGalley and Blackstone Publishing for the ARC in exchange for my honest review!

Set during the Great Depression, the story brings together May Marshall, a 30 year old, mother of two, with an independent streak and a past history of strong will with Dorrit Sykes. From Boston, Dorrit is a 16 year old, whose family is down-on-their luck. Dorrit travels to Washington, DC with her father for the camp-out in 1932 where veterans were demanding their promised backpay from the government.
The Depression has taken its toll on May's family cannery business, though they still run the town grocery store. It turns out that candies, including chocolates, are an indulgence item that are still selling in the hard times. Hobos have the Marshall store marked as a friendly place to stop.
Follow this section of time whey the Sykes and Marshall families intertwine to survive in the difficulties of the 1930s.

I love it when an author is able to take a reader to a time and place they haven’t seen before in the historical genre and that’s precisely what _ did here. This was my first time hearing about the Bonus March, the veterans march to D.C. to petition to Hoover for early war bonuses. It was very fascinating!

What I loved most here is just how honest and real this story felt. A story of survival and resilience amongst hardship and heartbreak. The author’s excellent writing and storytelling made it easy to place oneself alongside the characters and while maybe not always agreeing with, at the very least understanding their motives. And with that, the vivid descriptions and details made for an atmospheric read to the point I felt I was right there with them.

This was not a lighthearted read but it was powerful. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it and while at times I did feel the story lagged a bit, it all came together so well in the end. Definitely recommend to my fellow historical fiction fans.

Oh Dorrit, you entranced me with your adventures! Such a coming out of your anxious self, travelling from the busy city of Boston to the country life of Virginia.
Times are hard in depression years, as soldiers petition and protest the government for payment of war bonuses. Dorrit channels her heroine Nancy Drew (I loved those same books as a child) and leaves her home behind, to accompany her father to Washington. Fate twists and turns and adventures unravel.
The second person in this split personality read, is May Craig. Born in Viriginia, she has travelled the world but has now returned home to marry her childhood sweetheart.
I knew from the book blurb that the paths of these 2 ladies would cross and it comes a fairway through. They are a powerful alliance, in the time when the male was the provider for the family.
I was fascinated by the time known time in history. I adored the description of candies made in this era.
"In All Good Faith" involves themes of family, tenacity, perseverance and the ability of humans to recreate yourself. I was uplifted by the historical "girl-power".
Thanks to NetGalley, Blackstone Publishing and Liza Nash Taylor for my copy.

In All Good Faith by Liza Taylor Nash is a continuation of her first novel, about May Marshall. I had no idea there was a first novel! And the book still flowed and had a good story. In it, May and her family are struggling through the Great Depression. Her husband Byrd has to take a job out of town to support them while she tries to increase her families failing orchard business by moving into candy. Dorrit is a young girl who travels with her father to the Bonus March in Washington, where the vets from the First World War hope to get paid their bonuses. When her father is arrested, Dorrit must try to make it on her own. When circumstances bring her to May’s home, the two form a bond. Then an unthinkable accident happens and they two must find a way through it. This was a good book! I enjoyed it. I’d love to see what happens to Dorrit in the future.
Thanks #NetGalley and the publisher.
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In All Good Faith is one of my most anticipated books this year. It's the continuation, not really a sequel, to May's life. After her grand Paris adventure, I couldn't wait to see how she settled down back home while still keeping her spunky attitude. I absolutely adored this follow up and hope the author continues on with these characters!

In All Good Faith
by: Liza Nash Taylor
Blackstone Publishing
During the economically despairing days of The Great Depression, endurance, innovation, and resiliency shine as Nash connects rural wife and mother May with anxiety-ridden sixteen-year-old Dorrit. In 1931, May lives on the struggling Keswick Farm in Virginia, and Dorrit resides in Boston in a home environment steeped in religious doctrine and without a mother.
Through Taylor's lyrical and stylish writing, readers are welcomed into May and Dorrit's individual worlds and led through events leading to their connection. The two have very diverse backgrounds of home, lifestyle, class, family background, and talents. The unfortunate happenings during this historical time of financial disaster impacted each uniquely, yet in profound life changing ways for both.
As candy making is described in the book, Taylor points out that the mixture of molasses and cocoa can lead to unlimited possibilities. I felt that the combination of strengths of these two women could as well.
Taylor excels in portraying place, and her plot and pacing are mesmerizing. Her research into this time period, setting, events, and language are phenomenal, even including studying medical history. I will add anything written by this author to my reading list.
Thank you to Net Galey and Blackstone Publishing for the advanced reader's copy and the opportunity to provide my unbiased review for this outstanding novel.
#InAllGoodFaith #NetGalley.

This is actually a follow up to a previous book with the same main character, but the author does a great job of blending the backstory with the current story so that it works well as a standalone.
Unfortunately, I just couldn’t emotionally connect with the characters. There are 2 storylines that don’t intersect until well into the book and often I felt like I was reading 2 books instead of 1. The characters were selfish and childish at times and I was waiting for their emotional growth that just didn’t happen in a realistic way. I wanted to dig deeper into their reasoning and personalities, but the book just fell a little flat in that area.
I did enjoy the historical elements and the great descriptions of hobo camps and the veterans marching on Washington. I love learning history from various points of view and that’s what saved this book for me.

I generally like/love historical fiction only if the female characters are strong and forward-thinking, which both May and Dorrit capture differently but equally.

May struggles to keep her family business afloat during The Great Depression. May’s family business in Virginia has been around since 1849. She offers ideas and strategies for adapting to the times that both her father and husband dismiss. As her husband leaves for a new job in Washington D.C., May forges ahead without his approval.

Dorrit Sykes, a teen from Boston, loses her mother after the Sykes family won’t seek medical treatment for her. Her family are active members of Christian Science and believe pray over medicine will heal all ailments and struggles. Now, Dorrit must continue her mother’s seamstress business to put food on the table. After work, she hides in the library, reading everything from Nancy Drew to medical journals - where she now questions her religious beliefs. Desperate for money, Dorrit’s father decides to march in the Bonus Army March in Washington DC, where they accidentally get separated. Dorrit’s father is jailed, and Dorrit must survive on her own.

Eventually, May and Dorrit cross paths, where these two independent, strong women root for each other.

Taylor vividly describes the pain and anguish during The Great Depression, and the lengths people went to survive. She equally captured the sense of “we are in this together” along with personal survival. The Bonus Army March and Hooverville Camps is a great history lesson, one which I did not know. And the life of May and Dorrit is inspirational - a story of hope, survival, and women can be the solution when given a chance.

Liza Nash Taylor has written a beautiful historical fiction novel about one of the hardest times in American history from two different perspectives and I just found this book so beautiful that I immediately bought two copies to send to my mother and my grandmother.

While I did find Dorritt's story very interesting, as I really identified with her love of Nancy Drew, May's struggles really pulled at my heart and I could have read an entire book only about her.

This book managed to capture the spirit and heartbreak of the time and I think that sometimes the most important part of historical fiction.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, this book explores the lives of two very different women. May and Dorrit each have story and the dual timelines eventually intersect. These women are trying to survive and create some kind of
Lives for themselves. Beautiful prose and vivid pictures painted with words of this bleak time in history.

Beautiful story of the challenges and resilience of two women and their families during the 1930s.

I am so happy Dorrit and May got the outcomes they deserved after the struggles and hard work they pushed through. I loved that the first half of the book gave so much insight into their separate stories and adored the way the women were brought together and seamlessly merged into one family.

I received this book for free from Netgalley. That did not influence this review.

In All Good Faith by Liza Nash Taylor is an uplifting historical novel set in the eastern U.S. in the era of the Great Depression. It follows the intertwining fortunes of two strong women, May Marshall Craig and Dorrit Sykes.

May was the heroine of a previous novel, Etiquette for Runaways, and this continues her saga. Married now to the man she has always loved, Byrd Craig, she continues to work at her family’s small-town market, a store that is slowly failing, while her husband struggles to support the family on a lawyer’s salary when no one has money to pay him. He has to take a job in Washington D.C., doing important work, but work that allows him only the weekends to spend at home. His reaction to life’s setbacks is to double down on his determination to be the provider. Whenever May broaches the topic of an entrepreneurial idea of her own, he shuts her down. With faith in her own business sense and the strength of her product, she forges ahead secretly.

Dorrit is the seventeen-year-old daughter of a WWI veteran, fallen on hard times. Her mother died in childbirth and her older brother ran off to join the merchant marines. Her father is a skilled mechanic, who pins his hopes on inventing a better mousetrap. Dorrit takes in sewing, entertains herself with Nancy Drew mysteries, and agonizes over questions of faith. (Her mother, a devout Christian Scientist, would likely have survived had she not refused medical intervention until it was too late.)

The novel takes the reader along on the winding paths of these two characters. At first, the misery index is fairly high. I was engaged with Dorrit’s story from the first, but took a little longer to click with May. Once their paths intersected, things began to look up for both, and I settled in to the read with more hopefulness. I enjoyed seeing how they coped with adversity. The story carried me along to its satisfying conclusion.

The novel works very well as a standalone, though I do wonder if my initial detachment from May was a result of not having read the first novel. While this one does provide May’s backstory, I might have benefitted from the unfolding of her history in book one.

I loved Liza Nash Taylor's 𝘌𝘵𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘙𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 so when Blackstone Publishing and Get Red PR sent me a gifted copy of 𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗙𝗔𝗜𝗧𝗛 which continues the story of May Marshall, I couldn't wait to read it.

This book revolves around two women doing their best to survive and thrive in the 1930s during The Great Depression. May is now married to her childhood friend Byrd and living in Keswick, Virginia on her father's farm and her attempts to help keep her family afloat are causing a rift between her and her husband. Meanwhile in Boston, teenaged Dorrit Sykes is reeling from the death of her mother and questioning her faith when her father takes her to a veterans march in Washington DC that changes both of their lives forever. Afterward, May and Dorrit's lives become intertwined and together they must find a way to persevere in the toughest of circumstances.

I really enjoyed both May and Dorrit's stories. Taylor writes wonderful characters and the historical events that are a back drop in the book, like the veterans march, are fascinating. This is a poignant tale of strength, hope, family and friendship with two strong female protagonists, and even though it's technically a sequel (and I highly recommend the first book), it can be read as a stand alone novel.

Thanks to NetGalley for a copy to review.

Very enjoyable work of historical fiction chronicling the lives of two women during the Great Depression. May Craig and Dorrit Sykes have little in common. May is married to her childhood sweetheart, living in rural Virginia and trying to help with her family’s small market and dreaming of a successful business. Dorrit lives with her father and brother in Boston, taking in sewing work to help her own family. A series of difficult events bring them together and pull them through one of the toughest times in our country’s history.

I loved the separate voices of the two main characters and the shifting POV between these two them. Dorrit’s crisis of faith is especially poignant as she struggles with an undiagnosed anxiety disorder and the teaching of her church, which shuns medical intervention. In fact, all of the characters are drawn nicely, if simply, and following their stories is uplifting and heartwarming.

Thank you to the author and Netgalley for my free copy. These opinions are my own.

May Marshall returns home to Keswick Virginia, with her new husband Byrd Craig and she’s traveled all the way to France and to end up marrying the boy she lived next door to as a ten year old girl. America is going through tough economic times, and May’s struggling to keep her father’s Keswick farm and business. They grew fruit and vegetables, once they made and sold jams and bottled produce. May has two young children, with the help of Delphina her father’s maid, she juggles looking after her disabled father, caring for her children and she has a new idea to adapt her fathers failing business. Using the produce they grow on the farm, some of her father’s equipment and help from an employee Blue. She has a plan to make, and sell homemade candy and chocolates. Her husband Byrd works in Washington, he’s not keen on his wife’s idea, and May doesn’t listen to him.

The Syke's family live in Boston in a rundown tenement building, Roy reside with his son Walt, daughter Dorrit and his wife Augusta passed away four months ago. The Syke's follow the Christian Science Beliefs, and they don’t believe in medical treatment and sixteen year old Dorrit has never seen a doctor. Dorrit’s has a beautiful soul, she’s wonderful with young children, and she sews beautifully and loves to read Nancy Drew stories. Dorrit suffers from anxiety, she’s rather quiet, shy and spends her free time at the library.

Roy wants to travel to Washington DC, during the summer of 1932 to camp and march with over 20,000 war veterans who want president Hoover to pay their war bonuses early. He takes Dorrit with him, the plan is to go for ten days, and during the chaos Dorrit and her father are separated. Dorrit’s alone for the first time in her life, like many people at the time she starts traveling the rails, she has to have her wits about her and with her father’s tool box. Dorrit finds herself in Keswick Virginia, she’s sick, a kind May helps her and tries to find out what happened to her father. May can see what a wonderful person Dorrit is, together they make a winning team, both have dreams and aspirations.

All In Good Faith is set during the American Depression, the story is about hope, kindness, compassion, helping others, finding joy in life and during the difficult times. An inspirational story, it's well written, uplifting and five big stars from me. Thanks to NetGalley and Liza Nash Taylor for my copy and I highly recommend reading the book.

The 1930s are known for their hard times and the Great Depression. In All Good Faith explores the struggles of May and Dorrit during these trying times. Though it has some of the characters from Etiquette for Runaways, it can be read as a stand-alone.

This is a slower-paced historical fiction read that is very character driven. May is adjusting to being married, a home to manage, and fighting an uphill battle to pursue her dreams of building a candy business. I was really inspired by May because her back was against the wall and she kept pushing back to pursue her passion. On the other hand, we have Dorrit whose family has fallen apart since her mother’s recent passing. The book explores her growth into early womanhood, questioning her true beliefs and learning to stand on her own two feet.

This book had similar vibes to some of Beatriz William’s books so if you’re into her stuff, definitely check out In All Good Faith! It’s out now!