The View from the Balcony
Janette Paul
Reviewed by Helen
This is a beautiful story of friendship and how it can heal and support people, three woman of different ages come together at a rehabilitation hospital, on a balcony with a shared coffee machine, Hepburn House as career’s it is moving and heartwarming and I loved meeting them all.
Coral, has worked hard all of her life and is always there for anyone who needs her especially her family, she works in logistics and is good at organizing, but when she is just about to leave the country for a conference in New York, her elderly mother Val has a fall, will she get to New York with everything that is going on in her life?
Andie, is saved from the path of a speeding car, when se is pushed out of the way and has no memory of that night at all, but Andie searches out the man who saved her and forms a friendship with Ben, will this change her life for the better?
Mara, works for a big law firm and is sent to pick up some things from one of the partner’s homes but when finds the elderly Estelle at the bottom of the stairs and then finds herself assigned as her personal assistant to work with her at the hospital, this is the last thing she wants is to be working with a cranky lady but she is determined to do so.
Coral, Andie and Mara soon find that their lives are changing in so many ways and meeting on the balcony, to have coffee, getting to know each other, feeling the strength from friendship and starting to feel like their shoulders are lifting, is a good thing and a most unexpected thing and the people they are there caring for they too are going through change after the accidents that bought them to Hepburn House, a beautiful moving story, one that I highly recommend, I loved these three woman, and seeing their lives change was heartwarming. Don’t miss this one.
Coral, has worked hard all of her life and is always there for anyone who needs her especially her family, she works in logistics and is good at organizing, but when she is just about to leave the country for a conference in New York, her elderly mother Val has a fall, will she get to New York with everything that is going on in her life?
Andie, is saved from the path of a speeding car, when se is pushed out of the way and has no memory of that night at all, but Andie searches out the man who saved her and forms a friendship with Ben, will this change her life for the better?
Mara, works for a big law firm and is sent to pick up some things from one of the partner’s homes but when finds the elderly Estelle at the bottom of the stairs and then finds herself assigned as her personal assistant to work with her at the hospital, this is the last thing she wants is to be working with a cranky lady but she is determined to do so.
Coral, Andie and Mara soon find that their lives are changing in so many ways and meeting on the balcony, to have coffee, getting to know each other, feeling the strength from friendship and starting to feel like their shoulders are lifting, is a good thing and a most unexpected thing and the people they are there caring for they too are going through change after the accidents that bought them to Hepburn House, a beautiful moving story, one that I highly recommend, I loved these three woman, and seeing their lives change was heartwarming. Don’t miss this one.
5 stars
March 25, 2025 by Macmillan Australia
