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August 2015, Kensington, 320 pages, Paperback, Review copy from NetGalley
Content: lots of cake, humour, clean romance, tissues needed
Summary from Kensington
Katherine Lamontagne isn't Celeste Barnes's mother, but ever since
Celeste graduated high school and her parents abandoned Hidden Harbor,
Maine, she's acted the part. At twenty-two, Celeste worked at
Katherine’s bakery, and hoped to buy the business once Katherine took
early retirement. But when Katherine reconsidered that decision, Celeste
fled to culinary school in New York—only to return two months later, a
shadow of the girl who’d stormed out the door.
Katherine knows
the signs of secret heartbreak. Years ago, she gave up her baby son for
adoption—a regret she’s never shared with either her ex-husband or
Celeste. She longs for Celeste to confide in her now. But it will be a
stranger in town—an engaging young wanderer named Zach Fitzgerald—who
spurs them toward healing. As both women are drawn into Zach’s
questioning heart, they also rediscover their own appetites for truth
and for love—and gain the courage to face the past without being
imprisoned by it.
Nayu's thoughts
A superb story evolves around a group of women coping with
what life throws at them. That life happens to include cake and sweet
treats, which I feel are much needed for the harder experiences both
Katherine and Celeste endure. Yes the baking made me want to try lots
of new sweet treats, but at the heart of the story is Katherine and
Celeste's relation with each other.
At times it is strained. At other
times, especially when more is revealed about both their lives I
wanted to yell at them to give each other both a chance and some
slack – there were reasons behind their behaviour and actions,
which wasn't necessarily logical or beneficial. It was frustrating
when they clashed because I sensesd (and sometimes I knew) they had
been through whatever the other had, even if the situation was
slightly different.
Be
prepared for the heart to heart moments which require tissues (&
possibly cake), as the joys and sorrow of these different yet similar
women's lives as they open up to each other which lets them prepare
for a new, much happier future.
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