Although sometimes a bit disjointed, this memoir gives an interesting glimpse of life during the Depression. Trying to support her parents through difficult times, Ruth takes a summer job as a maid to a well-to-do family at their Muskoka cottage (summer home) when she's laid off from her factory work. At her first sight of the Muskoka lakes, she falls in love with the rugged beauty of the district, but also sees the great gulf between the wealthy and the working class.
Over the course of two sum
Although sometimes a bit disjointed, this memoir gives an interesting glimpse of life during the Depression. Trying to support her parents through difficult times, Ruth takes a summer job as a maid to a well-to-do family at their Muskoka cottage (summer home) when she's laid off from her factory work. At her first sight of the Muskoka lakes, she falls in love with the rugged beauty of the district, but also sees the great gulf between the wealthy and the working class.
Over the course of two summers, she has plenty of adventures, including near drownings, and the gentle courtship by a young man working at nearby Windermere House is most engaging.
The hardships that Ruth endured and overcame show a very strong woman, who engages our sympathies with her pluck and detemination. She dedicated the book to Muskoka "whose magical beauty molded [her:] life."
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