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Book Review of Goodnight June

Goodnight June
Goodnight June
Author: Sarah Jio
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Based on a friendship between Ruby and Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon, the letters between the two dominate this would be romance. For me, the romance between Gavin and June took second place in this novel. Easy to read, I zipped through this feel good book in one day - a matter of a few hours.

June is employed by a bank in New York where she becomes a financier who swoops down on late paying debtors, closing their businesses and auctioning off their possessions. Lately she has found herself breaking out in sweats, becoming nauseous, and feeling generally unwell. She works long hours and is rewarded for the foreclosures she completes. When she learns of her Aunt Ruby's death, she leaves New York, heading for Seattle, her birthplace, to settle the estate. The trip hearlds a change in her life. She rediscovers values she had put aside, reconnects with the love she felt for Aunt Ruby and meets a handsome young man who runs an Italian restaurant next to her aunt's children's bookstore. Of course, romance blossoms as June uncovers her aunt's past through the letters. Nice, gentle read that is perfect for hectic lives.