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being seen as she sneaks through the kitchen, The buy is given food and a drink and a bed for the night but what is going on...........
Second, the characters all carry pain, even the "bad boy" with the "good girl." And no one is that one-dimensional. The "good" girl is not always good. The "bad" boy is not always bad. And the attempts to connect and reconnect, even when they don't want to, show their desire to overcome the pain of the past and move into a more functional future. The fortune teller who overcomes all her own impulses to the contrary to make herself available to a single girl facing childbirth alone is an excellent example of this. Then things blow up, and he leaves her. Not necessarily for another woman, though that's a possibility. It's mostly because he got tired of how secondary she was to him. Of course, that's what he insisted on, but people aren't always fair about their motives. The book moves along as Lila struggles with her feelings and Rae struggles with a pregnancy without the man she is devoted to. In a simple world, the two women would become best friends, Lila would spill her secret to Rae, and she would coach Rae to have a relationship with her daughter that Lila never had. But life doesn't work that way -- and that's as much as I'll say. To me the characters were like something out of a Jane Eyre or Daphne Du Maurier novel, and I could often see myself imagining Judy Dench as Lady Pentelow, and Keira Knightly as Rosalind…the jury is still out in my mind as to who would play Piers! The story starts with Rae and Jessup in the Los Angeles area. He's doing odd jobs for a film studio and claiming he wants to become a producer, which Rae knows will never happen, but is afraid to confront him about. She's working as an assistant for a kind man who's a distributor of art-house films. On the surface, all is okay in the sense that they're making their rent, they go to the beach on Sundays, and they have a life.Abandoned by their parents and left to fight for themselves, the children comprising of headstrong Rosalind Carey, sister Patricia, brother Bertie who stands to inherit the castle, bookworm Walter and their grandfather Sir Lucien who is suffering with dementia after a long career in the Navy.
Don’t miss the heartwarming, moving novel from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court! The story primarily follows the life of Rae, a young woman who hooked up with a "bad boy" older guy while she was in high school, stole money from her mother, and fled home. She and the guy, Jessup, are on the road about 7 years later, still moving from town to town when he gets tired of doing a dead-end job in one place or another. He's mean to her but not violent. More like belittling and cruel, and with a threat of violence. She loves him, though it's not really clear why she would, except that it's a childhood infatuation that she never had a chance to outgrow because he is her entire life. Don't miss the heartwarming, moving novel from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!Piers says he wants to help pay off the family’s debts. But how can Rosalind be sure he isn’t out to take what is his and leave them all homeless? Only a closely-guarded secret will convince Rosalind she can trust Piers to protect her family – and her fragile heart. This book had several moments where i connected with it very deeply and other moments where I felt very disconnected. It almost felt like reading a different book at times.
Additionally, this one has some strong trigger warnings. I'm not usually one for trigger warnings, but this one may need it for child loss and suicide ideations.
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Don't miss the brand-new six-part series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court! Do you like flawed protagonists? Lila as a protagonist is as flawed as they come. In her efforts to flee the pain of her past, she causes a lot of heartache to people who care about her. Her attempts to push people away could easily be mistaken for cruelty. Rae is not exactly idealized, either. The people who weave in and out of the two women's lives are a fascinating mix. Piers says he wants to help pay off the family's debts. But how can Rosalind be sure he isn't out to take what is his and leave them all homeless? Only a closely-guarded secret will convince Rosalind she can trust Piers to protect her family - and her fragile heart. Anyway, Rae is struggling and she goes to a tea leaf reader nearby named Lila. We then learn about Lila's life, which parallels Rae's. Lila also moved from the NYC area to Los Angeles with a man, and that man is pretty much all of her life. However, they have a loving relationship that's deeply supportive even after 20 years. He's built them stability through opened an auto repair shop. The problem is that Lila has a secret she never told her husband, and it's been eating her alive for decades: the secret is that she had a baby girl at age 17 or so, and was forced to give her up for adoption.
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