Jessie McBride is glad to be back on Glory Road where she grew up.
After her marriage failed due to her husband’s infidelities, she
moved back with his daughter, Evan, and bought a house next door to
her mother, Gus. Included with Jessie’s house was a shop. She’s
turned it into Twigs, a garden shop that she runs with the help of
her mother.
It’s summer and
while Jessie is thrilled with her home and her shop, she knows she
needs to make more money. When Sumner Tate, a wealthy man asks her to
do the flowers for his daughter’s wedding, she thinks this may be
the start of a new venture. It’s not only the flower arranging that
attracts Jessie, she also enjoys the attention from Sumner.
Sumner is not the
only man in Jessie’s life. She’s ambivalent when her high school
boyfriend, Ben Bradley, moves to Glory Road. Evan, too, is having
growing pains. She’ll be in high school in the fall. There’s a
cute guy down the road, but she’s not sure how she feels about
boys.
Gus, Jessie’s
mother, is a pistol. She bakes delicious goodies and says what she
thinks, but she’s also having a transitional summer. She’s
starting to forget things and Jessie’s worried.
This book pulls you
into summertime in the South. The author has done an excellent job
with descriptions of the climate and surrounding area particularly
the flowers and trees. I loved the quotes from gardening books at the
start of each chapter.
The characters are
realistic. I could sympathize with Jessie trying to deal with her
mother’s and daughters’ changes and feeling pulled in new
directions herself. This book is different from Hurricane, another
book by the author, but it’s equally worth reading.
I received this book
from BookLook Blogggers for this review.
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