Harvest - Belva Plain

Harvest - Belva Plain
Fiction - 424 Pages
Werner Family Saga, Book 4

From Back Of Book: An unforgettable novel yielding the fruit of hidden passions, corrosive secrets, and tragic rebellion that simultaneously shape and echo the fortunes of three generations.


At the center of the storm are the beautiful Anna, trying to undo the damage of the past...Iris, whose marriage to Theo, the brilliant surgeon is foundering...their son Steve, caught in the turbulence of the '60s, a political radical wanted by the FBI...and Paul Werner, the powerful banker, driven to help the family that barely knows him.


Out of the strains of forbidden and forsaken love, shattering secrets and uncompromising differences, Belva Plain brings a compelling epic to its triumphant conclusion.

My Review: I hadn't realized that this was part of a series until long after I had already picked it up.  It stood alone quite well, though now I want to read the rest of the series.  There are so many threads in this book, that reading the whole series should flesh out more.  Even with so many threads, and no prior knowledge, the book was easy to keep up with.  There is enough of the past elluded to so prior knowledge is not necessary.  The characters are well developed and worm their way into your head and heart.  This is apparently the crowning volume to the Werner Family Saga, which makes the plot make more sense, and why so much seems to happen in the book.  There is a lot of growth within this book, within most of the characters...yet I feel almost cheated with the threads that were dropped.  All in all a wonderful book, though I'd recommend reading the rest of the series as it was intended.