It's a sweet book,to begin with!The story is basically simple-Despite the fact that the plot gets quite complicated according to Heidi,the novel's main protagonist.You read similar stories by many female authors who believe in happy endings!All in all,it makes for a good read;I won't call it a mu...
Tuhle knihu jsem si vybrala v knihkupectví vlastně jen tak do počtu. Opravdu. Nebudu zastírat, líbila se mi obálka a taky jsem měla chuť na něco romantického a to tato kniha slibovala. Autorka mne neskutečně překvapila, již dlouho se mi nestalo, abych si přála, aby kniha ještě nekončila a pokračo...
The story doesn't really begin until France then it takes off; the reader becomes immersed the French way of life. You will long to stay in Provence for the summer. An unexpected twist takes the story in a new direction aside from the predictable and expected romance. However the ending feels ...
We need to keep practicing joy, is the lesson that Heidi learns when she travels to Provence to oversee the repairs to her family home. Still grieving the death of her husband two years before, Heidi, her OCD son Abbot, her neice Charlotte seem to fit in better there than into thelife she and her...
Bridget Asher seems to truly understand the depths of sorrow, regret, memory, and loss. I have only read this novel and her more recent 'The Provence Cure for the Broken-Hearted.' In both books, she attaches detailed, relatable memories to significant moments of the story- and she weaves this net...
Was it just the right book, at the right time? I don't know, but I loved this book. I almost gave it five stars, but I'll have to read it again before I give it that honor.I thoroughly enjoyed the characters, and the style of writing. I loved the metaphors she used, such as, standing in a fiel...
(Spoiler alert) I was liking this book until the end and trying to figure out how I wanted it to end. I was torn, because I wanted Gwen and Elliot to have their grand love affair, but I felt bad because she was more or less happily married. But, I lost a lost of respect for the author by wrapp...
There were times I liked this book and times I didn't like it. By the end, I was loving it.The book gave me conflicted feelings.It's about a woman who finds out her husband is a womanizing cheat. And he's dying. I felt bad for the husband. Yes, he's a womanizer, but he still had a good heart....
What a delightful story on a serious subject yet, it was heartwarming and funny. Lucy, our main character, is an odd woman who struggles with love & abandonment issues. I can't imagine embarking on such a pain-staking journey when her marriage is falling apart, and her husband is dying. She le...
Comments: First, Lucy Shoreman learned that her older, terminally-charming husband Artie had been cheating on her for most of their marriage, and even before, so she walked out. Then, while she was gone and trying to figure out what to do next, she learned that the terminally-charming Artie was ...
I picked this book off the library shelf because I liked the title. It's not a great book; but it fun and presents a story line found in the title. Lucy's husband is dying and she invites past lovers to his bedside to, hopefully, teach him a lesson. She ends up learning more about love than she...
It was different, not what I expected. Nice to get through. Truly one of the worst books I have ever read. I wanted a quick fluff book and I got it. Ugh.
Elysius’s kitchen was restaurant grade, stainless steel and marble, with elegant lighting, kept pristine because she barely ever uses it. Her refrigerator was reliably stocked with things like baby carrots, yogurt, and healthy organic sprout salad takeout boxes, alongside exotic things like certa...
Wearing only a thin bathrobe that revealed a triangle of his gray-haired chest and black socks, he looked like an old man. He had jowls, leathery wrinkled skin, age spots, and liver spots—Esme didn’t know how to distinguish the two—and small white spots where he seemed to have lost pigment altoge...