num_pages: 256
description: 1948 sunny summer, Noah Locke spends a week in Bowerstown, North Carolina, bordered by lakes, in the Valley of Light. A quiet, simple war veteran, Noah has a mystical gift for fishing, yet remains haunted by Dachau terrors. Eleanor Cunningham is a widow whose husband supposedly killed himself at home after WW2. After a miracle, Noah comes home at last.
language: English
title: The Valley of Light
titlecomplete: The Valley of Light
genres: Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Travel
ratings_count: 511
places: North Carolina
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Townsend Prize for Fiction
publisher: Washington Square Press