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How do you move on when the ghosts come with you?, September 14, 2009
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By the middle of this wonderful book I was forcing myself not to read the last chapter to see where Brodie was going with this tale. Weaving reality and fantasy you find your self hoping and wondering and imagining an even larger tale.
Sarah McConnell is in her late thirties and has been married for a little more then 15 years when her husband in supposedly killed in a kayaking accident. He body has never been recovered, but yet one day three months later she sees him in the grocery store. There he is across the isle from her. After a quick distraction she looks over again and he's gone. Not sure of what she saw or didn't see she returns home even more bewildered then before.
Then the noises and bumps around the house begin, how can David be back, but on Halloween night he knocks on her door with quite a tale to tell. What is she to do. She can't tell anyone that she has seen him, the widow's club tells her that it takes a full season to get over a loss, but yet, David is there. She now must meet him clandestinely at their old cabin, she must move on with her life, but not leave David behind.
By the end of this book you are just mesmerized by the story that Bodie tells. You hope, but you fear to hope, because sometimes it takes a season to heal.
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Keeps you wondering, October 28, 2009
This book is about a woman who's husband dies in a flood but the body hasn't been found yet. They hold a memorial service. She gets paid the life insurance. They she starts seeing him.
I like books that kept me questioning and wondering what's true and what isn't. Good book.
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Kept Me Enthralled Till the End, October 7, 2009
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I really liked this book. I know it has had some mixed reviews but here's my two cents.
The main character, Sarah, (a 39 year old childless widow) sees her dead husband in a grocery store. She doesn't just see someone who looks like him, she sees him in his clothes looking at her.
And so begins the story. Sarah is trying to come to terms with widowhood, especially at a young age. Top that with the fact that her husband's body has never been recovered after his suspected drowning accident.
So, throughout the book, as Sarah encounters her dead husband, I found myself asking, "Is he really dead? Is he a ghost? Is it her imagination?"
Throw in a very handsome, single and attentive brother-in-law, a cabin in the woods, and a widow support group.
The story is wonderful as Sarah rediscovers herself and her purpose in life without her husband (or maybe with him...?).
It kept me wanting to read more and try to figure out how it would end. The story was touching and romantic.
Sarah feels like a real person. She is likable and I felt her grief (and sometimes lack of grief). Not being a widow myself, it's hard to understand how it would really feel but Laura Brodie does a great job giving us a glimpse in to the mind of this widow.
I really liked the ending and found that it fit the flow of the story.
This is a easy going book to read but interesting story line.
Highly recommended reading.
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