A thrilling, hard to put down novel. It relates the grit and determination of three sisters and grandmother during Prohibition in the Ozarks of Missouri. Each woman is extremely well defined and one can feel their joys, sadness, and struggles. This is a well worthwhile novel with clearly researched experiences of the people at that time and of the governmental impact on them.
The progression of twenty years of friendship for six people is told in five segments at different times in their lives. Relationships grow, change, and fall apart. Support systems break. It is a sad story to read. There is an excessive amount of alcohol and drug use that is a regular focus of the relationships.
A truly lovely novel of recovery from painful hurt and deceit. Hideaway House on the Isle of Wight offers safe shelter for those in need of care and love. It is a peaceful respite protected by a ghost couple that once lived there.
It is a novel to cherish as one character finds the rest, recovery and friendship she sorely needs.
A very moving novel. The harrows of illicit love and the wake of the hardship it creates could cause one to cry. Lives are finally right when others are uprooted in anger and humiliation. Does one wish it could all be corrected and bettered? Yes, but then the story would have lost in a rosy view of real life. Fabulous novel.
I absolutely loved this novel. The growing love of a surgeon and a short term nanny is tempered and affected by a thirteen year old daughter who is afraid she will lose her father to the nanny. It plays against the lightness of her sister. The nanny is sensible and fair-perfect for the father but threatening to the daughter.
A wonderful novel cover to cover. The delicate, painful, and truthful elements of friendship color each page and create a depth of emotion that paints a relatable picture of a developing relationship between two very opposite women. It will cause you to remember friends you have had and cherish those who have endured through the years.
The life of a woman is upended when she meets a mysterious and handsome man by accident. Hers is a world of philosophy, her life principle. All she relishes, the surety and steadfastness of philosophy come into question when he engages her in a dangerous plot.
A very interesting and fact filled novel.
