Author Claire Hersom

Smithville Junction: A Maine Novel is a historical fiction book written by Winthrop, Maine author Claire Hersom. Set in a small, rural Maine town in the 1940s, the story explores themes of family secrets, hard-won forgiveness, and redemption.

Even in the smallest, uneventful Maine town, the world can hand out some tough challenges, and Smithville Junction is no exception, so when Roy Clench gives his five-day-old baby girl away, the whole town is in an uproar, and if not for his two young boys, he might have been run out of town. But the world has a way of passing out everyone’s comeuppance when least expected and ironically, most deserved. Smithville Junction tells the story of this man as he navigates through a hard forgiveness he is forced to face in the worst of circumstances, and one little girl who brings him unexpectedly to the place he can find it.

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