In this story which has three stories running along side and the cross over many times throughout the book which is one of the things I loved most about the book. We meet Clara who is in her eighths and is going strong who's family is falling apart at the seems , Max her son walked out twenty years ago and has never looked back and moving to the U.S. Ave is a strong business women and runs the
family business like clock work and is carrying on the family legacy but Clara feels that Ave is
losing her way in life nursing a broke heart and bitterness towards Max for leaving her, Clara decides
to look for Max this good be her last chance to make peace and she wants to know he is well and happy, she hires a private investigator to find him. In know time he has found Max who is married and they have a seventeen year old daugther , Max becane a doctor just like his father. Clara writes to Her granddaughter Nathalie explaining who she is and that she would love to meet her one day and also her mother and father who she dearly missed.
Across the waters Max works hard at his job maybe too hard and when he is home he is there but not really there , he has a wonderful wife Amber and a daugther that is growing up fast which he is missing out on. it's a blink of an eye Nathalie is involved in a car crash on the night of her prom she and her boyfriend are the only survivors all the others are killed even her best friend Mackenzie which she is fighting to accept and Nathalie goes into a drinking melt down and its Amber last straw when is found her drunk and that she got a homeless guy to buy her vodka . Amber is at breaking point when she reads the letter from Clara and she calls her explaining that she thought Max's family was dead but this was clearly not the case and decides that Nathalie needs some time away from LA
with her extant end family across the seas in Ireland and time out, this opens a can of worms that
Max with Nathalie thousands of miles away she hoped the she would get answers to her many questions as now she feels that she really never knew her and everything they had was based on a lie.
When Clara and Nathalie meet for the first time there not emotional hello but a respect of two women meeting for the first time but Nathalie is going to keep her at arms length, but Clara has a way with people they warm to her every quickly and over they forst meal her magic seems to working on Nathalie especially when they found out they both like to make things and Clara (Oma) offered to teach her how to make a quilt while she is staying with her. She is in too minds she is warming to Oma she wants to let her in but why has her father keep his side of the family away.
making the quilt is bonding them together but where in the sewing room she stumbles upon a box of letters from Hannah to Lukas during the war of they love and strength for each other she would write to him about everything even when she was sent to a camp which was her darkest hour after giving birth and giving up they baby daugther to protect her from the Germans . Nathalie reads all the letters followed the story from start to finish and started to all more for an understanding of her Oma (
grandmother) ,but will anther sercert destroy her heart or mend it better, Will Max ever forgive his mother and himself for walking away and his dear sister ever forgive him and let love back in her heart!!!! You will just have to read this wonderful story yourself , but you will not be disappointed.
The book is due for publication on 9th April 2015 go get a copy and enjoy.
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