Valley of the Moon by Melanie Gideon

For those of us who have wished for our lives to slow down or time to stop, "Valley of the Moon" is the book for you. Lux is lost - she is a young single mom, burning the candle at both ends trying to make her young son and everyone else happy and always running late. When a friend suggests that she get away on a weekend camping trip near San Francisco, it sounds just what Lux needs. When Lux wakes in the middle of the night to find a strange fog surrounding the campsite she wades through it to find herself going back in time to 1906 and Greengage Farm. The inhabitants of Greengage are wary of Lux and her strange ways at first but soon she is traveling back and forth at every full moon foggy night. Years go by in San Fransisco while months go by in the Valley of the Moon and soon they are as much her family as the ones she left behind. The book is full of time references and they work so well - life is slower, peaceful at Greengage Farms compared to the modern hustle and bustle. New technology just makes things speed up so we are doing more, faster and enjoying it less. Settle back in a comfortable chair, slow down and savor the peace of "Valley of the Moon".