Review: Love, Lies and Secrets
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 5, 2012
Barefoot Girls is about Lies, Love and Secrets...Hannah's life!!Hannah has written a novel, a book of fiction until the "Barefoot Girls" began to read it.  Those "girls" are now mature women, all with secrets.  Hannah's Mom is one of the "girls", and the novel is really based on Hannah's rememberances of being left alone by a mother she adored.  After a reporter's critic of the book has slanderous things to say, Hannah's Mom takes a lot of it personally and set off a lot of uncovered lies, secrets unveiled.  The aunts want Hannah to know the whole story.Hannah's love life suffers, her personal life suffers, as well as her self esteem. Most of this story has to do with the friendship of four girls, starting in their very early years, when the families spent time on "their" island in the summer.As the girls grew, so did the friendships with all the toils and troubles of growing up.  The big secret occured when they were about eighteen, getting ready for college.  Theirs was an exclusive club, where all the trials of life were fought, tears shed, thru to maturity.When finally the truth was told, Hannah was rewarded with good news, acceptance of life and the man she loved.