Becoming Beth
Meredith Appleyard
Reviewed by Helen
This is another fabulous story from Aussies author Meredith Appleyard, her characters are so very easy to like and she opens so many emotions this one is heart-felt and heartwarming, when fifty eight year old Beth arrives home to the small town of Miner’s Ridge after her marriage of fifteen years falls apart dreadfully her life changes so much when her mother has a stoke and Beth finds herself with the help of her father caring for the mother she never had a close relationship with.
Her mother dies soon after and Beth is left thinking about her past and all of the things that happened when she was a very young sixteen year old but she is determined to move forward and takes on her mother’s role on the committee for the local town hall she forms new friendships and renewed others, but she is still not settling into her new life really well.
While researching the history of the town hall Beth discovers secrets that her mother has kept and her own past life is haunting her, is it time to look back at what happened or should she let the past stay in the past and will she ever find the happiness that she does deserve?
This is a lovely story that I highly recommend, it is moving and emotional I thought Beth was wonderful she had been through so much and there are some fabulous characters in this one, one not to be missed.
My thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for my copy to read and review.
Her mother dies soon after and Beth is left thinking about her past and all of the things that happened when she was a very young sixteen year old but she is determined to move forward and takes on her mother’s role on the committee for the local town hall she forms new friendships and renewed others, but she is still not settling into her new life really well.
While researching the history of the town hall Beth discovers secrets that her mother has kept and her own past life is haunting her, is it time to look back at what happened or should she let the past stay in the past and will she ever find the happiness that she does deserve?
This is a lovely story that I highly recommend, it is moving and emotional I thought Beth was wonderful she had been through so much and there are some fabulous characters in this one, one not to be missed.
My thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for my copy to read and review.
5 stars
September 7, 2022 by HQ Fiction
