Susannah's Garden

by Debbie Macomber | Romance |
ISBN: 0778324443 Global Overview for this book
Registered by AnglersRest of Teignmouth, Devon United Kingdom on 8/13/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by AnglersRest from Teignmouth, Devon United Kingdom on Monday, August 13, 2007
From Publishers Weekly
Bestselling author Macomber (There''s Something About Christmas) explores the intricate dynamics of family with sincerity and wit in this well-crafted novel. At 50, Seattleite Susannah Nelson is unsatisfied with her American dream: she''s got a devoted husband, two teenage children and a rewarding career teaching fifth grade. She''s also got a recently deceased father, a mother increasingly unable to care for herself,and recurring dreams about her high school sweetheart, Jake Presley, who disappeared around the time of the death of her brother, Doug, 30 years ago. Returning to her hometown of Colville, Wash., over the summer to look after her mother, Susannah has an ulterior motive: to find Jake. As she orchestrates her mother''s rocky move to a nursing home and tries to keep track of her household (particularly her petulant daughter, recently taken with shiftless townie Troy Nance), Susannah picks up Jake''s trail with the help of a private investigator and a childhood friend. As tension mounts between Susannah and her family, she uncovers the shocking details of Jake''s disappearance—and of Doug''s death—and ultimately faces her long-buried resentment toward her father. Macomber excels at detailing family conflict and the resulting tangle of regret and anger, but her God''s-eye-view keeps her characters at arm''s length, showing readers their emotional complexity rather than providing a view from within.

Journal Entry 2 by AnglersRest from Teignmouth, Devon United Kingdom on Tuesday, August 28, 2007
We first see a glimpse of Susannah in Back on Blossom Street. This is the story of Susannah, life before the flower shop, with her husband Joe, daughter Chrissie, her recently widowed mother Vivian, not to mention a whole pile of ghosts from the past.

Susannah is confronted with her mother, who is gradually becoming frail, she starts to talk of meeting her husband, well he comes to her in not a dream, but I guess as a spirit. Susannah believes that she needs to get her mother placed in an assisted care facility, where she can be looked after. Susannah, comes to terms with the death of her father, she reflects on her relationship with him and with her brother who died 30 years previously and her school boyfriend who wrote to her one summer then stopped. Susannah rebuilds the relationship with her old school friends, and feels that she needs to lay some ghosts to rest, except that all is not as it appears to be......

Another delightful read from Debbie Macomber, who has a real skill of being able to identify with genuine emotions & fears.

Journal Entry 3 by AnglersRest from Teignmouth, Devon United Kingdom on Thursday, September 6, 2007
Sending out on a special mini book ring to the usual Macomber addicts!

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