Author: Elizabeth Berg
Published: November 13th 2018 by Random House
Format: eBook, Hardcover, 288 pages
Genre: Women's Fiction
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Arthur Truluv #2
Continuing from ‘The Story of Arthur Truluv’, Elizabeth Berg recreates her magic with Lucille’s story. Now living in Arthur’s home and teaching the love of baking from her kitchen, she has found her place. Startled awake by an unknown visitor, Lucille has come face to face with her own Angel of Death. She is not ready and asks for more time since she has not yet received her miracle and a person cannot die without first receiving a miracle.
There is a sub-plot involving Monica, a waitress at the local diner, and her crush on a customer, but that part of the story did not grasp me as much as Lucille and the thwarting of her nightly visitor, and Iris, who is restarting her life in a small town as Lucille’s assistant. Both women grate on each other from time to time, but that is how great friendships start so I was intrigued by this interaction.
What did twist the heartstrings was the family across the street and a sudden diagnosis and how a family can be pulled and tugged but will always finds their way back to what is important. Even if the family sees sugar as poison and Lucille, a semi-reluctant babysitter, decides to share her creations and perhaps a miracle with a family that needs a little of both.
Each person reading this will come away with a different feeling for which Elizabeth Berg was trying to convey. Is it family, friends, or even baking that brings people together. Does a person’s age, weight, or position in society define them? Is it important who says sorry first or where a person finds a home? Most importantly, does it matter where a person is married? Or do you do the next best that you can and bring the wedding to them?
This is a book of memories, a book of triumphs, and a book of forgiveness.
There is a sub-plot involving Monica, a waitress at the local diner, and her crush on a customer, but that part of the story did not grasp me as much as Lucille and the thwarting of her nightly visitor, and Iris, who is restarting her life in a small town as Lucille’s assistant. Both women grate on each other from time to time, but that is how great friendships start so I was intrigued by this interaction.
What did twist the heartstrings was the family across the street and a sudden diagnosis and how a family can be pulled and tugged but will always finds their way back to what is important. Even if the family sees sugar as poison and Lucille, a semi-reluctant babysitter, decides to share her creations and perhaps a miracle with a family that needs a little of both.
Each person reading this will come away with a different feeling for which Elizabeth Berg was trying to convey. Is it family, friends, or even baking that brings people together. Does a person’s age, weight, or position in society define them? Is it important who says sorry first or where a person finds a home? Most importantly, does it matter where a person is married? Or do you do the next best that you can and bring the wedding to them?
This is a book of memories, a book of triumphs, and a book of forgiveness.
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