When I first started reading this book, I wasn’t sure if I would even like it. I honestly didn’t like Emily much. Her parents died ten years ago and she’s never allowed herself to grieve, stuffs all emotion, pushes people away and allows no one to get close to her. She doesn’t believe that she can, or even deserves, to be happy without her parents. She’s even not allowing herself to cherish the memories she has with her parents. She’d decided how she was going to deal with her life and her parents deaths and nothing anyone said would alter her choices. While she’s organizing church archives, she finds diaries from the early 1900s written by Elizabet Thomas. Reading those diaries becomes life changing.
The story alternates between Emily’s journey of self discovery through reading Elizabet’s diaries and Elizabet’s as she struggles with her ghostly existence tied to the church. Each woman reevaluates how she has handled the grief in her life.
This book ended up being so good. It was truly enjoyable to go along with Emily and Elizabet on their journey through grief and loss to find where they were meant to be.
The story alternates between Emily’s journey of self discovery through reading Elizabet’s diaries and Elizabet’s as she struggles with her ghostly existence tied to the church. Each woman reevaluates how she has handled the grief in her life.
This book ended up being so good. It was truly enjoyable to go along with Emily and Elizabet on their journey through grief and loss to find where they were meant to be.