What a wonderful, heartwarming story! This is the perfect book for a long, lazy weekend (or in my case, when you are staying home sick from work and need a distraction). It tells that story of three generations of women who are forced to spend the summer together. Tessa, Nancy, and Helen never really got along, but that's also because they never really got a chance to know each other. Helen is seen as a crabby, old woman who doesn't know how to show love, but her daughter Nancy and granddaughter Tessa, never knew the secret heartache that she's carried for so long. Nancy is only seen as a shallow, social climber, but that's because she's been trying to hide her true self under layers after getting hurt earlier in her life. Tessa is trying to pick up the pieces of her marriage and of herself after a devastating loss a few years earlier. Helen is at a point in her life where she can no longer maintain her home properly, and Nancy & Tessa come spend the summer to help clean out the clutter she collected. Throw into this mix a shared love of quilting, and the arrival of Cissy, a young pregnant neighbor who help these women with their problems by letting them help her prepare for her baby. Together, they beginning to see something not only in each other that they never saw before, but something in themselves as well. If you are a mother or a daughter, you will certainly find yourself connecting to this book! :-) I found out that this is part of a series, so I might end up picking up one of the others in the future! :-)
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