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As America enters the Second World War, a melting pot of displaced and disenfranchised boarders enter the boarding house of Dolly Chandler in Blackberry Springs, Alabama. When tragedy strikes, the only hope of salvation lies with the circle of women under Dolly’s roof and their ability to discover what happened to young bride here 100 years ago.
My Thoughts:
There is just something lyrical in the way author Fraser Luesse
writes. I thoroughly enjoyed Missing Isaac
and I was not disappointed in Almost Home.
The story takes place during World War 2 and many people are
out of work, displaced, and finding their lives completely different and turned
around. Dolly and her husband Si have turned their home into a boarding house
for those folks needing a place to stay to work at the munitions plant. There
was quite an array of characters and I enjoyed watching them all become a
family under not only Dolly’s and Si’s roof but also under their care.
There are ups and downs as everyone is adjusting to a new
normal but the love and friendship they develop was certainly a blessing. There
are a couple of love stories, my favorite was the young married couple falling
back in love again and sharing their troubles instead of shutting one another out.
The ladies of the house have become quite interested in an
old legend of the previous owners from about a hundred years ago. What happened
to the young couple on their wedding day: was it murder or did they run away
from the town? Who was the mysterious husband who came into town and married
the preacher’s daughter? I was riveted right along with Dolly, Anna, Evelyn,
and Daisy as they worked to uncover this story’s beginning and end.
This was a fantastic read of people becoming family even in
the hard times and even a hundred year old mystery to solve.
I received a copy of this novel from the publisher. I was
not required to post a positive review and all views and opinions are my own.
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