Description
Young Jane Ward is the young daughter of an upper middle class family living in Chicago at the end of the 19th century. She enjoys a comfortable Victorian upbringing, thoroughly inculcated with the morals and values of the age.
Years of Grace follows Jane as she grows up, falls in love, attends university, and eventually settles down to raise a family of her own. At her heart, Jane is a solidly middle-of-the-road, conservative homebody: not as high-achieving or risk-taking as her friends, but rather preferring to hew closely to the traditional household values she grew up with. While she occasionally longs for a cosmopolitan, romantic life that could have been, she finds contentment in her family and joy it brings.
As the...