This is a slightly longer book and was a little slow in parts. Not my favorite Jojo Moyes book (but hard to beat Me Before You) but was still a good book. Well written characters - nobody is too perfect and all have traits you don't like but that is realistic. Suzanna's mother abandoned her when young and she grew up with her dad and stepmother. She always feels like she doesn't quite fit and is a little unsettled - like her mother who was famous for her wild ways. In the end she is still a little unsettled - getting ready to travel to Australia to find herself or maybe go to Argentina with a man she loves - but she is getting over the negative feelings about her mom and her family. Some side stories about friendship both making friends and grieving death, domestic abuse, and long held love.
Athene Forster embraced the Sixties like few others. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she is spoilt, beautiful, and out of control. And within two years of her marriage, the rumours have begun again.
Thirty-five years on, Suzanna Peacock finds refuge from her mother's shameful legacy in her shop, the Peacock Emporium. Within its magical walls she discovers not just friendship, and an escape from her troubled marriage, but the first real passion of her life.
But the spectre of Athene still haunts her, setting in place a series of dramatic events. Only by confronting the past will Suzanna finally be able to face the future...
Thirty-five years on, Suzanna Peacock finds refuge from her mother's shameful legacy in her shop, the Peacock Emporium. Within its magical walls she discovers not just friendship, and an escape from her troubled marriage, but the first real passion of her life.
But the spectre of Athene still haunts her, setting in place a series of dramatic events. Only by confronting the past will Suzanna finally be able to face the future...
