Sometimes what your life is missing is an eccentric group of older ladies to take you under their wing . . .
When Raeley Ann Sutton’s mama passes away and leaves her the house where she grew up, Rae can’t imagine how the little old place might restore her broken life. Mourning the recent loss of her marriage, she takes the house and settles back in tiny, “one-horse Whitten” with her fourteen-year-old daughter, Molly Margaret, and their overweight dog.
There she’s embraced by her mother’s close-knit circle of friends, the Third Thursday ladies: Mrs. Fannie, Mrs. Dora, and Aunt Maxine. Though almost half their age and far less confident of positive outcomes, Rae joins their ministry-slash-book-club-slash-gossip circle and allows the women to speak wry honesty and witty humor into her tired heart. As a new career and a new romance bring their own complications, Rae relies on the unlikely family she’s found and begins to wonder if her future holds more hope than she ever could have imagined.
Known for her heartwarming stories and genuine Southern voice, Susannah B. Lewis dazzles with her latest story of women strengthening women.
My thoughts:
I have been reading
new to me authors lately, Ms. Lewis falls into this category, and I was
pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed her writing. I was drawn to the older characters much more
than I was to Raeley Ann Sutton, there were a few things I admired about her,
and I loved the notes her deceased mother left her. I found the male characters to be so indecisive
that I grew bored with their inability to figure out what they wanted or who
they wanted.
Luckily, Aunt Maxine,
Mrs. Dora and Mrs. Fannie provided some light comic relief to the problems and
sadness that Raeley faced as she faces life as a newly divorced woman who
shares custody of her daughter with her ex-husband and starts life after the death
of her mother. There is sadness,
friendship, new beginnings and love in this novel.
I received a copy of
this book from the publisher through Netgalley.
All opinions are my own.
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