★★★
"You will always miss her. There will be days - even years from now - when the missing will be so sharp it will take your breath away. But there will be good days, too, months and years of them. In one way or another you'll be searching for her all your life."
Kristin Hannah is one of my favorite authors and I am currently going through many of her audio books. This novel continues the story of Kate's family and best friend, Tully, after Kate dies of breast cancer the the book Firefly Lane. Deal with the lose of their wife/mother/daughter/and friend, each character must put the pieces of their life back together.
This book was ok, but not one of my favorite of Kristin Hannah. I enjoyed hearing about what happened to the characters after Firefly Lane ended. Overall, it was a little to sappy for me - I don't usually to well with authors over talking emotions. The novel began with Tully in a car accident a few years after the death of Kate and proceeded with several different back story lines of each of the main characters. If often felt like a mix of a Lifetime movie and Charles Dickenson's A Christmas Carol. I was interested in what had happened to everyone in the story, but I felt that there were too many "ghost of Christmas past" aspects. It sometimes hard to tell whose back story we were hearing and many of the events were repeated several times.
I think my favorite part of the book was the story of Tully and her mother Dorothy. Tully was raised by her grandmother and hardly knew her mother growing up. In this novel, we get to see Dorothy's tragic young adulthood and what events lead her to keep her distance from her daughter.
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