Review: A woman on her own--and a very good read.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 4, 2013
A deeply written story about a woman finding what some might call "a new lease on life." Everything changes for Kate when she loses her husband--the center of her life. At first frozen in her grief, she must look deep inside herself to find the courage and will to live again.The title of the book is apt, because Kate is looking for lifelines, new ways of living and going forward with relationships that have always been messy and difficult: a stubborn daughter, a narcissistic mother she's never understood, and a father she never knew. These relationships are laid bare when Kate finds herself alone. Without her traditional married life and the husband who buffered her against the strains and demands within her family, all of its fractures and stresses lay exposed. Kate decides to fix things, to make things right--and to forge a new life in the process. It isn't easy.Vanessa Grant goes to the heart of a family at odds with each other and one deeply resistant to love and sharing. Kate doesn't win every round, but she wins enough. Enough that when the possibility of a new love appears, offering her yet another lifeline, she's strong enough to reach for it.Family dynamics always make for unique and engrossing reading--this one particularly so.