A sweet story of friendship and romance
Ohh, what a sweet story! The characters in ALMOST HOME are people you would be blessed to call your friends.
Set in 1944, Dolly & Si Chandler are struggling to pay the property taxes on their lovely Alabama home. Due to the war, many are without jobs and travel to wherever they can find work. So Dolly and Si take in boarders.
The boarders include Anna & Jesse Williams are a young couple whose farm has failed. Since Jesse has flat feet he was not eligible for the draft. Then there’s Harry & Evelyn Hastings, both college professors from Chicago who lost their jobs. Next there’s Joe Dolphus whose wife died a year earlier. Finally there is Reed, a local boy who was a medic in the war. He is dealing with PTSD after losing his closest friend.
I loved the elderly, blind lady named Lillian and her quote “Old Southern women don't change much. We just rock slower and slower till we don’t rock anymore.”
Daisy Dupree’s husband was killed in the war. Daisy and Anna become close friends. I loved Daisy’s advice to Anna regarding getting her husband’s attention: “Men can’t decipher hints and moods, so you gotta put what you’re feelin’ in a cast-iron skillet and hit ‘em over the head with it.”
The house itself is pretty special. Dolly’s grandmother Little Mama always said the house could talk. Dolly says “I believe a little part o’ what we give to a place stays with it forever.” The house was built by Andrew Sinclair who married the preacher’s daughter. There’s a lot of mystery around the story of Andrew and Catherine.
This is a wonderful story of friendships and is a true page-turner. I couldn’t wait to know what would happen next. There is mystery and romance in this book.
This is a great book and I highly recommend it.
Set in 1944, Dolly & Si Chandler are struggling to pay the property taxes on their lovely Alabama home. Due to the war, many are without jobs and travel to wherever they can find work. So Dolly and Si take in boarders.
The boarders include Anna & Jesse Williams are a young couple whose farm has failed. Since Jesse has flat feet he was not eligible for the draft. Then there’s Harry & Evelyn Hastings, both college professors from Chicago who lost their jobs. Next there’s Joe Dolphus whose wife died a year earlier. Finally there is Reed, a local boy who was a medic in the war. He is dealing with PTSD after losing his closest friend.
I loved the elderly, blind lady named Lillian and her quote “Old Southern women don't change much. We just rock slower and slower till we don’t rock anymore.”
Daisy Dupree’s husband was killed in the war. Daisy and Anna become close friends. I loved Daisy’s advice to Anna regarding getting her husband’s attention: “Men can’t decipher hints and moods, so you gotta put what you’re feelin’ in a cast-iron skillet and hit ‘em over the head with it.”
The house itself is pretty special. Dolly’s grandmother Little Mama always said the house could talk. Dolly says “I believe a little part o’ what we give to a place stays with it forever.” The house was built by Andrew Sinclair who married the preacher’s daughter. There’s a lot of mystery around the story of Andrew and Catherine.
This is a wonderful story of friendships and is a true page-turner. I couldn’t wait to know what would happen next. There is mystery and romance in this book.
This is a great book and I highly recommend it.