REBECCA'S REVIEW:
"By the time the Charity Falls city limits sign comes into view, my eyes burn. . . Everything feels at once familiar and also like a scene from someone else's life . . . Same town. Same road. Different Audrey."
Thirteen years have passed since Audrey Needham has driven down the streets of Charity Falls, Oregon. As an interior designer for upscale California clients, her career totally consumes her; day after day, week after week, month after month . . . until her Aunt Daisy's request for assistance gives Audrey the impetus to arrange a short absence from her job, hoping that it will be waiting for her when she returns.
Wrapped tightly within the confines of the small idyllic town are the happiest and saddest moments of Audrey's life. Coming back is hard, her uncle's health is failing and based on the disrepair of the Needham's home, her aunt has not had the energy to ready the lovely cottage for sale. Surprisingly, Audrey immediately feels the semblance of home; escaping the frenzy of a big city allows time to breathe, to listen, to remember . . . her artist's heart viewing the landscape in living color . . . perhaps she needed this kind of space to hear the voice of the One who created it all. "How precious to me are your thoughts, God!"
An outstanding story! Experienced through dual points of view; Audrey and her aunt Daisy travel similar journeys from different directions, facing the hard times together, pulling back the scabs over wounds that had never truly healed, accepting that "grief isn't something you move past . . . it's something you learn to carry". Lest we forget the role that "Mr. Very Nice" (in the green shirt with a voice as rich as ginger, driving the classic two-tone Ford pick-up) has to play, "You always come out of the woods better than you went in".
*I received a copy of this book from Baker Publishing through Interviews and Reviews. I was not obligated to provide a positive review.
BackCover Blurb:
Audrey Needham, Bay Area interior designer to the rich and pretentious, is down to her last nerve. Her boss is impossible to please, her future is in jeopardy, and her great-aunt Daisy needs support as her husband descends into Alzheimer's.
When Daisy enlists Audrey's help preparing for a move to assisted living, Audrey risks her career to return to the idyllic small town of Charity Falls, Oregon, the summer stomping grounds of her childhood. But Charity Falls was also the place that broke her heart when her father was killed in a tragic fire at the Sugar Pine Inn thirteen years ago.
Despite Audrey's intent to avoid emotional entanglement, the pull of home is hard to resist. Something should be done about the deteriorating inn. A local girl with an incarcerated father needs a friend. And handsome local do-gooder Cade Carter is coloring Audrey all shades of uncertain.
Join award-winning writer and debut novelist Kit Tosello in this lyrical and often humorous exploration of how God redeems brokenness and draws us to the life we're meant to find.
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