Fiona Lowe
Reviewed by Helen
Fiona Lowe’s stories just get better with everyone she writes, the last two that I have read of hers Daughter of Mine and Birthright blew me away and this one has as well, I am sitting here trying to write this review and make sure I do justice to this amazing story, MS Lowe has taken me to the small town of Myrtle and the wonderful people that live there and what happens after a bushfire two years before destroys the town and plays havoc with their emotions, if you have never read a Fiona Lowe book do yourself a favour and read this one there will be no regrets.
We get to meet three woman, two who grew up in the town and one who has moved there with her family Claire, Bec and Sophie, as well as a few more fabulous woman, Julie who is in the CWA thinks that it is time to get the town moving again after the devastation of two years before and invites some of the woman to start a craft group in the evenings, Claire and Bec have been at odds with each other since school and Girl Guides and Sophie, Layla and Erica are pretty new to the town. This gets them working on plans and brings the woman together but along the way they learn that not all is as it should be and the emotions and hurt and pain that people keep to themselves will soon come to the surface as they learn to open up to each other.
While the woman work together we also get to know the men in their lives Matt, Adam, Josh, Nathan and Osman and Julie’s wonderful husband Phil, these men are also very different and with some of them living through the fires, they too have problems that need to be sorted and when it comes to a head on the second anniversary of the fires, I shed a lot of tears and there was a lot of different emotions flowing, there was anger, heart breaking feelings, but there was strength coming from each other and the support was amazing.
This book is beautifully written, there are heart-wrenching moments as we get to know and understand these woman and their families, there are moments that made me angry when the truth about one of the town’s favourites comes out and then the support and strength that these people show each other, this really is a book that I can’t highly recommend enough, I didn’t want to put it down, yet I read slowly to savour every word I was totally engrossed in this story, don’t miss this one. Thank you MS Lowe this one is going to stay with me for a long time to come, you did so well with issues that sadly are a part of our lives.
5 stars
Published
February 18th 2019
by Harlequin Enterprises (Australia) Pty Ltd
