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Hope Creek
By Janet Daley

This wonderful book by Janet Daley was an emotional rollercoaster. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started it as Kit Teague returns home to Hope Creek on the Barrier Islands of South Carolina after being away for fifteen years. Her sister isn’t home, her brother who has special needs is cooking, and her father is passed out in his room. She sees all this from the window as she is locked out of her childhood home. Then practically beats down the gate of the nearest neighbor’s home as she searches for her sister (who locked her out), and answers to what happened over the last decade and a half. To add on top of that, her first crush Beau Sutton has returned with his 15-year-old son and even more questions. I wasn’t sure where we would go in this story, but as I continued to read, I found wonderfully imperfect people in both the Teague and Sutton families and their ways of dealing with grief, abandonment, betrayal, and ultimately love.

I was enveloped in the slow and painful way of Kit and her twin Viv back to each other, the acceptance of what happened to their mother and each other, and for Kit, to begin a relationship of her heart. Ms. Daley brought me on a rollercoaster of emotions from anger, frustration, laughter, and love. There is so much emotion to reveal and discuss in this book, I think it would make a great book club read. I’ve received an ARC copy from NetGalley and this is my honest and voluntary review.