Review: A New Up and Coming Author
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2011
Hemingway PointNora CarrollKindle Edition5 StarsHemingway Point is the story three of women, Mamie Tretheway, her daughter Margaret and granddaughter Jess and their summer cottage Journeys End and family secrets.When Jess Carpenter learns her grandmother Mamie has passed away and left her Journeys End she had but one choice . Return to the cottage and prepare it to be sold. As she planned to make the trip back to Michigan, her boyfriend Russ  who writes articles for a architecture magazine wants to come along  just to get a glimpse of the old place and write an article on it. Once there seems things change mighty fast. As the cottage brings back memories to Jess of her summer childhood, swims in the lake, picnics at Hemingway Point and her first love all the while Russ has one thing on his mind, modernize  the cottage and sell it as if it's  his to do with as he pleases.As the story alternates between Jess's memories of the  cottage and her life there we also get a glimpse of Mamie as  her story is narrated. As more and more of the family secrets come out into the open, as  Jess  finds old photographs and letters to being more secrets forward, a buyer is found for the house. Refusing to sell at first Russ talks her into it.  Does she really care that much for him to marry him and let him run her life and her business.This is a deeply written story that deals with love, heartache, deceit and hidden secrets. There is a mildly hint at  sexual encounters but nothing extra sensual which makes for a good read. This is the authors first novel and I feel she will become an up and coming author in the near future if she keeps writing novels like this one and does not go into erotic or heavy sexual encounters  in her works. She should go far with this first book. Recommended