Review by KT Sullivan
Cal’s
widow, Merritt Heyward, inherits his family home from his grandmother, Edith.
Beaufort, South Carolina seems like a foreign country to the Maine native.
Parts of the house haven’t been lived in and the rest needs a good cleaning.
Wind chimes hang around the house and Merritt decides they should go. Her
stepmother, Loralee, and half-brother Owen arrive uninvited for an extended
stay. Cal’s brother, Gibbes, shows up looking for family mementos. He’s never
met Merritt and is surprised such a wonderful woman married his ogre of a
brother. Merritt doesn’t want all the company or the house. She’s trying to
forget her father’s desertion and her horrible marriage. The house holds many
secrets, mostly the contents of Edith’s attic. She was an abused wife and the
day her husband died, a plane crashed in town. A suitcase landed in her yard.
She opens it, finds a letter addressed to a dead man, answers his wife, and
sets off a number of different consequences.
The story
is told from Merritt’s, Edith’s, and Loralee’s points of view. All of these
women have known heartbreak and disappointment. Edith’s is the most
interesting. How she steps out from behind a shadow and gets enfolded into
another one affects so many lives. Loralee keeps a journal of her mama’s
sayings and thoughts for a bittersweet reason. Merritt is swept up into too
much family drama and isn’t sure what to do. The wind chimes are a constant and
handmade by Edith. Sea glass can withstand pressure and crashing up on shore.
The three women take that lesson to heart and live through it. Uplifting story.
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About the Author:
Karen is
a New York Times bestselling author and currently writes what
she refers to as ‘grit lit’—southern women’s fiction—and has also expanded her
horizons into writing a bestselling mystery series set in Charleston, South
Carolina. Her eighteenth novel, A Long Time Gone, was
published in June 2014 and debuted at #24 on the New York Times list.
Her next novel, The Sound of Glass, will be published in May
2015 by New American Library, a division of PenguinRandomHouse Publishing
Group.
Karen
hails from a long line of Southerners but spent most of her growing up years in
London, England and is a graduate of the American School in London. When not
writing, she spends her time reading, scrapbooking, dancing, and avoiding
cooking. She currently lives near Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and two
children, and a spoiled Havanese dog (who appears in several of her books),
Quincy.
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