Review: One of my favorites
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 6, 2012
Is there anyone who hasn't, at some point in their life, said to themselves, "I'd like to just go somewhere else and get away from this mess I'm living in"?  And most of us have thought, at one time or another, (if we were raised to think of others) that it would be nice to have a lot of money and use some of it to make life easier for those less fortunate.  That's what I like about this book.  It has both those ideas as a plot.  Like a lot of Grace's books, the plot is somewhat contrived and she gets mired down in the amount of physical labor the characters get done (which I personally kind of like, but not everyone does) but it's still a great book about a young woman who goes to another city to work and get away from relatives who never stop reminding her that she is dependent on them.  After she gets there, she finds out she's going to receive a small inheritance.  She writes to her dearly loved aunt and invites her to come live in the boarding house with her and they will run it together and try to make a nice place for themselves and all the other boarders.  It's a charming story.