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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Lisa Wingate
Genre : Fiction
This is the third novel in the Tending Roses series from the bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours.
Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from the big questions of her life—the emotional distance in her marriage, her inability to have children, and her bout with cancer. Getting lost in her high-powered career provides the sense of purpose she yearns for. Until the day she’s downsized out of her job and the doctor tells her the cancer may be back. It’s a double blow that would send anyone reeling. She leaves Boston for Missouri, where she grew up with her Grandma Rose and her sister Kate to assess her own life going forward and to discover her grandma’s family secrets.
“The car went silent, passing over a short stretch of pavement on a bridge. In that one soundless instant, I understood the source of my fear. Our lives were comfortable—filled with a steady white noise, like the car on the gravel road. It was easy to be lulled into complacency. Friday the white noise had stopped, and I was alone in a quiet I hadn’t experienced for years. The hush of my own soul. ‘Are you happy with our life, eighth way things are? Do you feel—I searched for the word, and ended with—stagnant. Like maybe you’re just going through the motions, and the years are passing, and you’re experiencing life through a layer of insulation? Because that’s how I feel.'”
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