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Chargement... Family Treepar Susan Wiggs
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  lexilewords | Dec 28, 2023 |   It's a charming story, very Hallmark in describing the Vermont countryside and life. The story goes back and forth between Annie's high school/college years and the present, sometimes from the POVs of her mother or her high school boyfriend, Fletcher. Some things took me out of the story occasionally: for example, Fletcher getting into Harvard Law School after taking college night courses, then becoming a lawyer and judge in what seemed to be about ten years, or Annie only being able to do a cooking show in LA, one that seemed high-budget for someone just out of college with no real experience. Mostly, I enjoyed the story, though the ending seemed a bit forced. Why couldn't Annie do a show from her kitchen, a local affiliate, or even Burlington or Boston? Why the drama of having to move to Los Angeles? It cheapened her romance with Fletcher, in my opinion, that she couldn't make compromises in the third or fourth time she left him behind. His career was not as flexible at this point, but meh. Anyway, 3 1/2 stars. (  ) N.W.Moors | Oct 2, 2023 |  ) Octavia78 | Jul 26, 2023 | This is a heartwarming and emotional read which had me gripped all the way through. Also in this book was another favourite of mine, food!! So a Family saga with lots of drama and wonderful food is always a winner in my eyes Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for this lovely book (  ) TheReadingShed01 | Feb 25, 2023 | ) AngelaLam | Feb 8, 2022 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a powerful, emotionally complex story of love, loss, the pain of the pastâ??and the promise of the future. Sometimes the greatest dream starts with the smallest element. A single cell, joining with another. And then dividing. And just like that, the world changes. Annie Harlow knows how lucky she is. The producer of a popular television cooking show, she loves her handsome husband and the beautiful Los Angeles home they share. And now, she's pregnant with their first child. But in an instant, her life is shattered. And when Annie awakes from a yearlong coma, she discovers that time isn't the only thing she's lost. Grieving and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback, Vermont, a maple farm generations old. There, surrounded by her free-spirited brother, their divorced mother, and four young nieces and nephews, Annie slowly emerges into a world she left behind years ago: the town where she grew up, the people she knew before, the high-school boyfriend turned judge. And with the discovery of a cookbook her grandmother wrote in the distant past, Annie unearths an age-old mystery that might prove the salvation of the family farm. Family Tree is the story of one woman's triumph over betrayal, and how she eventually comes to terms with her past. It is the story of joys unrealized and opportunities regained. Complex, clear-eyed and big-hearted, funny, sad, and wise, it is a novel to cherish and to remember. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Auteur LibraryThingSusan Wiggs est un auteur LibraryThing, c'est-à -dire un auteur qui catalogue sa bibliothèque personnelle sur LibraryThing. Discussion en coursAucunCouvertures populaires
 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (3.69)
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But I received this for review (from William Morrow) and I do have a fondness for Wiggs' historicals. Also this is as unlikely to devolve into a zombie apocalypse as possible and after reading several stories in RISE I needed something like this.
Overall, not so bad. A bit glossy and "this could only occur in fiction" feel to it, but enjoyable in its own way. I liked that Annie figured out pretty quickly what she didn't need in her life after the accident. She prioritized her needs and that was important. It was also refreshing that when she got the life she deserved it wasn't at the expense of anything important.
In any other circumstance I wouldn't have read this, but in this weekend, after the tragedy I had been reading, this book helped lift my spirits and that's all I ask for from my reading. (