By Barbara Delinsky
New York Times bestselling writer Barbara Delinsky has written her most complicated and emotionally worthwhile novel but: a narrative of 2 ladies, a iteration aside, every one of whose dream turns into certain with the other's.
To her relatives, Natalie Seebring is a lady who prizes appearances: exquisitely mannered, a supportive spouse, and head of a profitable wine-producing company. So whilst she proclaims plans to marry a winery worker mere months after the demise of her husband of fifty-eight years, her son and daughter are shocked. confronted with their disapproval, Natalie makes a decision to write down a memoir.
Olivia Jones is a dreamer, residing vicariously during the outdated photos she restores. She and her daughter, Tess, hang to the myth great, satisfied relatives is on the market simply watching for them. while Natalie hires Olivia to aid along with her memoir, a summer season at Natalie's winery via the ocean turns out the proper chance to reside out that delusion. yet all isn't really because it turns out.
because the phantasm of an idyllic lifestyles comes crashing headlong into fact, the lives of those girls, parallel in such a lot of methods, develop into a robust and relocating tale.
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