I would like to read other books by this author. This book was borrowed. I started it on December 27th 2015.It took a few reads to get into. Then, having given up on at least three occasions, I became addicted.
Absolutely a great weaving of threads. Each family character is revealed as the story unfolds around daughter Juliet, with the sense of justice or injustice that she endured. Her passion and interest in glass bring her and members of her family to deal with, or not, the various interplay of emotions that goes on between people, to encounter and face emotional injury, present and past lovers, addiction, compassion, secrets, truths, lies about who they each are and what keeps FAMILY together. It provokes thoughts on core values - on morality. It is a story that incorporates at the very least, fear, responsibility for one's own life, betrayal, guilt, freedom, redemption, forgiveness, compromise and understanding. What is love? filial, romantic, enduring....
Out of despair brings hope seemed to be the underlying theme in the pursuit of the reality that Happiness comes and goes, and is dependent and not dependent!
Set partially in America. However, the epicentre of the story was set in a little part of Cornwall I had the good fortune to be near a few Autumns ago. I still wish to walk that coast and the coastline of England!
The story is about the quirkiness of FAMILY happiness : the woven threads of a dream if one is fortunate!!!!!!!!! Ah... promises that little babes in arms bear...
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