Season of Shadow and Light
Jenn J McLeod
Simon & Schuster Aust
A CBC Company
ISBN: 9781925030280
Description:
Sometime this season…
The secret keeper must tell.
The betrayed must trust.
The hurt must heal.
When it seems everything Paige trusts is beginning to betray her, she leaves her husband at home and sets off on a road trip with six year old Matilda, and Nana Alice in tow.
But stranded amid rising floodwaters, on a detour to the tiny town of Coolabah Tree Gully, Paige discovers the greatest betrayal of all happened there twenty years earlier.
Someone knows that truth can wash away the darkest shadows, but…
My View:
A beautiful Australian narrative full of larger than life characters, wild and glorious countryside, horses, romance, secrets, love, connections , family and a fantastic message about acceptance – there is a little something in this book for all to enjoy.
There is a beautiful passage in this book that sums up love and acceptance remarkably well, Alice is talking to Paige about Alice’s relationship with her mother Nancy, ‘No labels Paige, remember. It was your mother who hated them. She never referred to herself as anything other than a woman who feel in love. It so happened to be with another woman. It might have easily been with a man, she told me once, insisting, “Love is about connection.” ‘
What an important understanding.
NB This book was provided for review by the publisher.
Reading, Writing and Riesling 
Oh, it certainly is, Carol! And it sounds as though this book has a lot of wisdom to share.
It is a very powerful book Margot – more than a romance – I like that this aspect of relationships was handled so sensitively and also provides realistic role models…we need more real strong women in fiction.
You (and Jenn/Nancy) are most certainly right on that issue of connection.
A US blogger I know (and one I guest posted for recently about aloneness and loneliness) just wrote something about connection and I’ve commented on it in my latest post about friendships.
Very very important!
I think this book make some great points in this book- I know wonder what her others have had to day 🙂
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