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| A compelling story of a woman struggling with addiction and seeking forgiveness" --Booklist |
Cat is an alcoholic.
One morning she feels she has had enough, and tells her mother she wants/needs help.
That is when her mother drops a bombshell on her that will change her life forever, in more ways than one.
Summer Secrets by Jane Green takes place in London, where Cat lives, and during summers in Nantucket.
While everyone in Summer Secrets loves the American island, it also harbors many secrets.
This novel follows Cat from her 20s, as a party girl, to her 40s, as a divorced mom of one, still trying to find her place in life. There are flashback to her teens and childhood, and even a flashback or two before she was born.
This novel centers around Cat's alcoholism, and how it effects her life. How she battles it and how it continues to affect her life even once she is sober.
This novel is also about family, and about love. It is about the bonds of family, about love found and lost. Its about distrust and grudges, but it is also about friendship and forgiveness.
I did enjoy this novel and finished it in just a few days.
There were a couple of jumps in time that threw me off. There were parts of Cat's life I would like to have seen more detail of, but I guess that wasn't what this book was really about.
I would like to see a second book with the characters who LIVE in Nantucket as the central characters. I think that would be interesting.
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2 comments:
Sounds like an interesting book. I need to read more often.
Sounds like an interesting book I could really get into. great review.
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