Thursday, May 16, 2019

A Summer of Growth for Three Women


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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