This is the story of a mother haunted by a secret she has long kept hidden. Now as she grows old, she finds she must come to terms with an act she committed as a young motherthe secret she kept will come out.
As Grandma Ann Biddle assists her 8 year old granddaughter Ellie with a school project, she finds herself questioning her memory of the past. She finds herself wondering what is actually a memory, and what is her impression of the event. Ann is no longer sure what really happened, or the way things really happened. She isnt sure if her recollections are things she created to protect herself from the truth, and the pain of the past. She knows she must face the facts before it is too late.
Anns daughter-in-law Tinsley is Ellies mother. She feels the need to protect her own daughter from Ann. Unsure of Anns health and tenuous grip on reality, Tinsley feels responsible for monitoring the bond, as well as past secrets and their effect on the familys future.
Time will tell. Secrets always come out, one way or another. Family shares your history. These three generations of women will come together because of heartbreak, but ultimately for healing. Indeed there is strength in numbers, and in love.
As Grandma Ann Biddle assists her 8 year old granddaughter Ellie with a school project, she finds herself questioning her memory of the past. She finds herself wondering what is actually a memory, and what is her impression of the event. Ann is no longer sure what really happened, or the way things really happened. She isnt sure if her recollections are things she created to protect herself from the truth, and the pain of the past. She knows she must face the facts before it is too late.
Anns daughter-in-law Tinsley is Ellies mother. She feels the need to protect her own daughter from Ann. Unsure of Anns health and tenuous grip on reality, Tinsley feels responsible for monitoring the bond, as well as past secrets and their effect on the familys future.
Time will tell. Secrets always come out, one way or another. Family shares your history. These three generations of women will come together because of heartbreak, but ultimately for healing. Indeed there is strength in numbers, and in love.
What a great 5 star book! This is a book written by a talented author. To be honest the book is even better than the cover, the title or the blurb on the back.
We start with Ann who is in her seventies, and starting to have some memory problems. Ann, has one 8 year old granddaughter Ellie. Ellie is the daughter of Ann's son Tom who is married to Tinsley. Ellie has a school project that brings Ann to think about some painful things in the past: her marriage to Theo, her high school boyfriend Peter, her daughter, Emma, add to that the split of her parents marriage when Ann was in high school. All of these stories come together beautifully. There seems to be a common theme running through the female generations, and it isnt really about birdhouses, but about love and fidelity.
I liked our main character Ann, and her granddaughter Ellie. Peter was even a likeable character. The rest of the characters played their unlikable roles as they should, and as needed.
Dont miss this book. and Marry the fun one!
We start with Ann who is in her seventies, and starting to have some memory problems. Ann, has one 8 year old granddaughter Ellie. Ellie is the daughter of Ann's son Tom who is married to Tinsley. Ellie has a school project that brings Ann to think about some painful things in the past: her marriage to Theo, her high school boyfriend Peter, her daughter, Emma, add to that the split of her parents marriage when Ann was in high school. All of these stories come together beautifully. There seems to be a common theme running through the female generations, and it isnt really about birdhouses, but about love and fidelity.
I liked our main character Ann, and her granddaughter Ellie. Peter was even a likeable character. The rest of the characters played their unlikable roles as they should, and as needed.
Dont miss this book. and Marry the fun one!
I enjoyed this book, perhaps partially because it is told through the eyes of an older woman, which I am rapidly becoming; a protagonist we don't see that often in novels. The story is a mystery that flashes between the decades of her young married days and her older widowhood, with focus on the bathtub death of her young daughter, two love affairs, and the building of a loving relationship with her young granddaughter, and her parents. A page-turner that is full of heart.
