Review: Past, present, and future
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2014
Ava Lancet's world has turned upside down.  One year ago, she lost a child and now her marriage is hanging on by a thread.  Racked with grief, she escapes to the childhood home of her grandmother Sophia in rural Greece.  She arrives to find a farmhouse that has been untouched for over forty years and sets out to make it habitable.  In the process, she discovers that her grandmother had a whole life of which she knew nothing about.  Will piecing together Sophia's past, enable Ava to find solace in her own life?  The Other Side of the Bridge by Katherine Swartz is a very intriguing tale of two women more alike than they could have imagined.  It is really two stories, told in alternating chapters.  One modern and one set during the devastation of World War II.  To me, the book was reminiscent of the works of Kate Morton, Lauren Willig, and Beatriz Williams.  I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a solid women's fiction story.