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★★★★☆
Good women’s fiction
I have read the reviews on this book and understand why some people were disappointed. This book does not have car chases, sex scenes, violence or anything else that shows up these days in books. What it does have is a woman coming to terms with several major losses in her life and how she struggles through them. She’s in a car wreck. She’s a surgeon who can a longer practice her medicine. She loses her husband. There is a lot more to this story than I just wrote and this woman has to wade through all of this without having any way out. I think it is a very good study of how people manage when they are blindsided. There is a very light touch when it comes to romance because that is not what this book focuses on. It focuses on how you make decisions to go on with your life once you have had not one, not two, not three, but more life altering things happen in a short period of time. The woman does meet a man that she becomes interested in him and he shows interest in her and there there is hope that these two will find a future together. I consider this book women’s fiction. It is not a romance. That said it is a very good book. Also I used to my Google earth to look at the towns she discussed because I know nothing about Nova Scotia and find it is a beautiful place and I can see why it becomes part of the story.
August 2018 · Kindle Store · verified purchase