a beautiful story, a novel about love, friendship, forgiveness, grief, self-reconstruction ...

a beautiful story, a novel about love, friendship, forgiveness, grief, self-reconstruction ...

Summer Second Chance (Paperback)

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Meredith, 49, lost everything. Freddy her husband is in prison for embezzling billions of dollars and conned investors. His son Leo and herself are in the crosshairs of the FBI. Hounded by the press, everyone thinks that Meredith is guilty, she was necessarily aware since she is his wife.
Connie, his former best friend with whom she has blurred in recent years, Meredith agrees to host for the summer holidays at his home in Nantucket.

Meredith is convinced that she fears nothing, however, seem to have trouble followed. It all starts with a picture of Meredith taken away on the porch and graffiti on the house ... Who blames her? Does it happen to prove his innocence?
Along with this scam story, we follow the personal story of Connie. I must say I preferred this part there.

Connie is a selfless and gentle woman, still upset by the death of her husband Wolf, which occurred two years earlier. She suffers from the absence of his daughter who is part Ashlynn make a living elsewhere following the death of his father. His meeting with Dan will change his life.
Connie is a character that I really loved, and I loved the track, discovering its past and understand the evolution of life.

As for the character of Meredith, I'm pretty mixed. Initially it is selfish, and we understand very quickly that it was not a great friend to Connie. Flashbacks to his past let us glimpse a weak person who is easily manipulated and pushed around by her husband. As blinded by money and her little comfort.
However, its evolution throughout the novel and the final show us a changed person, improved.

"The summer of the second chance" is a beautiful story, a novel about love, friendship, forgiveness, grief, self-reconstruction ... So many exciting and shocking themes. It is a book that has a little summer scent.