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You could call this a feel good story because there are characters here who care and help each other in need and that in itself makes this a hopeful story. However, it’s not a light one with themes of loneliness, regret, abandonment, family estrangement, homelessness. Oh, there are some funny and sweet moments, but there’s a lot of sadness and heartbreak. I’m not going to say much about the plot because the book description tells most of that. I’ll just say that a revelation early on turns a woman’s and her four year old daughter’s lives upside down. It’s one that I had assumed before it was revealed even though only in the third chapter, but the story isn’t always predictable.

This is the second novel I’ve read recently that portrays an unexpected and unlikely friendship between a younger woman and an elderly man, a friendship that changes both of their lives. Connecting with these characters, I couldn’t help but feel that they changed mine in some way, too.


I received a copy of this book from Storm Publishing through NetGalley.