Author: Sue Monk Kidd

I picked this book up at one of the thrift shops on Texada. I left it in the cupboard on Texada for those times when I hadn’t brought enough books from home to get me through my time at the studio.

This was a quick read about Jessie, a daughter, wife and mother, who begins to wonder what might lie ahead for her now that her daughter has left the next. When her mother has a mental episode Jessie returns to the remote island where she grew up. Not only does she have to sort out what might be affecting her mother but also she is trying to deal with the circumstances of her father’s death many years ago. Just to add a bit of uncertainty to the story she has also fallen in love with a monk from the monastery next door to her childhood home.

Goodreads Rating: * * *