Nichole R. Dickson’s HERE AND AGAIN, is a beautiful novel of loss, love, redemption, and finding your way home.

Dickson dives into the lives and histories of families, and back to the Civil War, with well-developed characters, drawing readers into a magical world as the novel shifts back and forth between Ginger and Samuel’s POV.

Ginger lost her husband in Iraq and she is raising three children. She is living on a farm where her husband grew up, owned by her husband’s grandmother.

Set deep in the Shenandoah Valley, Ginger dreams of the past. When a stranger appears in her life, he says he’s a soldier, and trying to make his way home, but Ginger understands Samuel is a kindred spirit.

HERE AND AGAIN takes you on a remarkable journey as readers learn about all the pieces of their life, while seamlessly intertwining the past and present, from grief to joy.

I listened to the audiobook, read by Karen White which was warmhearted and easy flowing.

Readers enjoying contemporary or historical fiction will appreciate Dickson’s lyrical style. I look forward to reading more by this author!
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received this book through a giveaway and I'm not gunna lie, I was nervous as hell to start it. Normally I don't like the "Housewife books" , you know what I mean, the love and sap just don't appeal to me.
So after I got this book it took me a while to actually get up the nerve to read it. So after about a week of it sitting on my shelf I thought... with you don't read if you don't take chances... I cracked open the front cover and paged through the title pages, signed page and the acknowledgments and see a letter dated May 10, 1861 I immediately start reading. This one letter along was written with more description than most of my recent books.
Let me just say Nicole Dickson has a way with words. Once I got started I couldn't stop! She seamlessly brought together past and present in a wonderful story of love, Loss, and making it through life. Miss Dickson, I applaud you and your talent for writing and keeping the reader wanting more! If you need a good cry book... GET IT NOW!

I think this book was amazing and I am not just saying that because I won the book through First Reads on Goodreads. I really enjoyed reading this book. The story is so beautiful. ( )

How anyone could possibly give this book less than 4 stars is beyond me. I wish Amazon allotted half stars--- this one deserves one, to make it 4.5. It is most definitely historical fiction...it includes the loving spirit of a Civil War soldier to tie two worlds together, and help a family heal in its loss.

The husband of Ginger Martin has died in Iraq and she and their children opt to remain with his grandmother on her farm in Virginia. With outside pressure to sell the land, a lack of farming knowlege, the depths of grief and working as a nurse for extra income, she is overwhelmed. In steps Samuel, a spirit trapped in this world, and connected to the land- and to Ginger! Dickson has done an excellent job of weaving together an intricate and magical web of time and place.
I particularly enjoyed it because my in-laws do live in Shenandoah Valley....and i've been to the Luray Caverns and New Market!

FAVORITE QUOTE: " If you move a little farther, closer to the horizon, it moves and there is more to see between you and the end. Good and bad things between you and the end. But you gotta keep moving."

Here and Again by Nicole R. Dickson
Have read the author's other works and loved the book and am looking forward to this book. It's a tale about the woods and trails which I strive to get to on the weekends.
We have traveled to the area of Shenandoah and have enjoyed it but didn't explore much about the battles. This book is about a family, a mother and her three children and they live on the mother in laws farm in Virginia.
She is a nurse and travels to work some shifts quite a distance from home. She was raised in Seattle, WA and has found a home on the farm. Others have been caring for it as her husband is fighting a war in Afghanistan.
Decisions must be made when he is killed. Others in the family want the old woman to sell the farm but the farm was to go to the man's children.
The story is also about a solider back in the Civil War days. He'd write to his true love as she and her family escaped to head further south to avoid the turmoil. Love the violet hour and the saga of the buttons. Quite a unique tale as this author knows how to bring them both together in one story.
I received this book from Edelweiss by Penguin Group (USA) Inc.in exchange for my honest review. ( )