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A Month of Summer (Blue Sky Hills Series #1) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lisa Wingate
Publisher: NAL Trade
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 52890
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 0451224035
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451224033
ASIN: 0451224035
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: In great shape inside and out.
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Product Description
First in a new series from a national bestselling author whose novels [are] like those of Nicholas Sparks and Richard Paul Evans.(Bryan-College Station Eagle)
For Rebecca Macklin, an ordinary summer brings about an extraordinary change of heart when she discovers that her aging father has been wandering the Dallas streets alone, and his wife, Hanna Beth, has landed in a nursing home. Now Rebecca must put aside old resentments and return to her childhood home. In this moving story of separation and forgiveness, two women will unravel the betrayals of the past and discover the true meaning of family.
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Lisa Wingate won't dissappoint!! September 24, 2008
A beautifully written story of family! Lisa Wingate's books are a true find! I started with Tending Roses and what a great surprise it was for me to find years later the books that were written after Tending Roses which intertwined all the inspiring characters. The characters are so real and endearing. I wasn't sure she could top that series, but "A Month of Summer" is now another treasure. Highly Recommended!
 Never judge a book... September 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A Month of Summer was filled with situations to make a reader stop and realize how precious life and relationships can be for everyone (healthy or unwell). I especially liked Claude and the mule story. At one time or another, all of us are faced with being either the blind or the deaf mule - needing someone to help us understand what comes next. I think that through her writings, Lisa Wingate helped all the mules understand the true meaning of family.
Love Lisa Wingate Books August 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great book as usual. Very nice story ~ not so predictable ~ just good clean writing.
A Month of Summer July 31, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was an all nighter. I just couldn't put it down. Lisa always writes such interesting books, especially for women. I love eveything I have read by her to date. I always look forward to the next release.
A Month of Summer July 1, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Lisa Wingate's tenth book, A Month of Summer
"Life, Claude says is a journey by train. Outside the window, the scenery is rushing by. If you look away for even an instant, something passes uncaptured. Far in the future, when you leaf through the photo album of memory, your finger, aged and crooked, will rub lightly over that empty space, and you'll wonder, What might have been there?" And so begin the journeys of Rebecca, Hanna Beth, Claude, Edward, Teddy and others as they all eventually meet in a Texas nursing home.
Rebecca, Edward's estranged 45 year old daughter, living with her husband and daughter in California, gets a call from the Dallas police that her father has been found wandering the neighborhood, and that something must be done. This brings Rebecca to Texas and so begin her experiences with an aging father, afflicted with dementia, and a mother in law, Hannah Beth, who is in the nursing home after a stroke.
As I read this extraordinary story, my mind kept wandering to the movie that's sure to come. Who would be in it? Jack Nicholson could be Claude, the kindly nursing home resident who once drove the trains loaded with the former prisoners from the concentration camps. Julia Roberts could be Rebecca. Meryl Streep could be Hanna Beth, while Tom Hanks could be Edward. What a movie that will be!
Wingate takes a serious subject, a subject that each of us may one day encounter, creates interesting characters and weaves them into exciting stories and mixes the story with humor that makes this book unforgettable. The Incontinence Olympics description is a must read! I'm still laughing about it.
I started reading the book in the late afternoon and didn't lay it down until finished in the early morning. I really loved the book and highly recommend it! I have now read it three times.
Ed
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