This family saga is 100 pages too long — but who cares, the writing's great
We begin in the summer of 2004 in a gorgeous old house on a lakeshore in Montana. It belongs to Cece's future parents-in-law, and she's there to plan her wedding to Charlie. The house is a magical place, a romantic idyll with 'raspberry bushes, magically replenishing, like something in a fairy tale'.
Keeping Cece company while Charlie toils away as a cardiac anaesthetist
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- Scottish Sun
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