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Cynthia Ellingsen

Autore di The Lighthouse Keeper

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This was on my Kindle and I picked it out as my next Kindle read, then I couldn't put it down. Evie's adventures with Harding in Ireland play out in counterpoint to Rainie's trip to Ireland with her sick grandmother. Poignant tales of love and loss and the value of friendship and family. I thoroughly enjoyed the story.
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elorin | Mar 24, 2024 |
A race to save a lighthouse by finding an answer to a long old mystery.
 
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whybehave2002 | 3 altre recensioni | Oct 23, 2021 |
Sisters Jayne and Charlotte haven't seen other in over 20 years. When their parents divorced, Charlotte stayed with their father and Jayne moved to Dublin with her mother who needed to take care of her father. The only summer that they spent together was when they were ten and spent the summer at their grandparent's beach house. After that summer, they became estranged and haven't talked each other in over 20 years. All they have is their memories of that happy time. Now they live totally different lives and both have kept their hurt about their estrangement affect their lives. Jayne is single and bankrupt and not sure if she'll be able to meet her bills. Charlotte is married to a successful man and has two sons. She works from home in a high pressure job. They are both surprised and unhappy with the conditions that their grandmother put on bequeathing her beach house. Their grandmother wanted them to renovate her beach house within the next six months and work together on the renovation. Once the house is done, they can either sell it or make it a family house. Even though they agreed to the stipulations of the will, there was a lot of animosity and distrust between them. Charlotte was mad at her mother for only taking one daughter with her when she left and she felt like Jayne had gotten all of their mothers love. Jayne was angry because Charlotte never wrote to her after their glorious summer when the felt like sisters. Can renovating the beach house make them become sisters again or is there too much distrust between them?

This is emotional book about sisters and secrets, love and forgiveness. It had two fantastic main characters, a bit of romance, issues with Charlotte's teen age sons and a lot of background on the work involved in renovating an old house. Can the bonds of sisterhood make Jayne and Charlotte forgive each other and move forward as friends or will the secrets that they find in the house separate them again? I have read other books by this author and she always creates characters that her readers care about and plots about the importance of family. This is an emotional and uplifting book about sisters, secrets and the family bonds that hold us together no matter how complicated they are

Thanks to Bookouture for a copy of this book to read and review.
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susan0316 | Aug 1, 2021 |
Julie and her husband Tristan live in Chicago and both spend all of time working at their careers so that they can save for the future but they rarely take time to enjoy life. Julie finally gets home Wood Violet, a 140-acre Wisconsin resort lovingly built by her grandparents and now owned and managed by her parents. Julie and her husband planned to spend the long weekend together to ease the issues they have been having with each other after her miscarriages. When Julie gets to Wood Violet she feels like she is truly home but when she sees her parents, she is very concerned. Her mother had a stroke that her father told her was not serious but when Julie sees her mother, she's very upset. She has some paralysis and seems to have given up on life. Their house is a mess and her father is working constantly to try to get everything taken care of at the resort. At the end of the long weekend, she decides that it's more important to stay with her parents and help than it is to go back to her high pressure job in the city. Tristan leaves angry with her for putting her parents ahead of their marriage. Julie finds out that some of her old friends are staying at the resort and they immediately connect with each other. When they find a young girl living in an abandoned cabin at the resort, they are all concerned. After doing some investigation, Julie finds that Margaret is looking for her birth mother and some of her information pointed to the resort. Julie tries to help her while she is working at the resort trying to help with the financial situation as well as her mother's heath. When she finds some hidden letters, things start to make sense but she knows that bringing it to light will totally change her family dynamics. At the end of the summer, she has to decide whether to go back to Chicago and try to repair her marriage or whether she should stay at Wood Violet where she feels that she can make a difference and do what is important for her life.
This is a well written family story about finding your true home and happiness in what you accomplish in life. The characters feel like old friends. There's love for family, friends and husbands along with a bit of mystery and a beautiful setting. This my first book by this author and I definitely plan to read some of her earlier books.
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susan0316 | Feb 20, 2021 |

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11
Utenti
200
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3.8
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11
ISBN
28
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