Green Applewood

Jean Free, a library consultant, is a retired public-school teacher and
librarian in Whitby, Ontario.

Green Applewood is the story of life in the rural southwestern Ontario
community of Buttonwood, where Charety, Hans, and their seven children
live.

This is Bebensee’s first novel. Unfortunately, it is a poor
beginning. The novel abounds with unrealistic conversations;
unimaginative and awkward scenes; one-dimensional, stereotyped
characters; too many subplots and unrelated events; and numerous
grammatical, typographical, and spelling errors (including one on the
cover). It was a struggle to finish reading it. Green Applewood has
little, if anything, to recommend it.