Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters by Emily Carpenter
☆☆☆☆
.PDF, 291 pages
Expected publication: October 20th 2020 by Lake Union Publishing
About the Book:
Dove Jarrod was a renowned evangelist and faith healer. Only her granddaughter, Eve Candler, knows that Dove was a con artist. In the eight years since Dove’s death, Eve has maintained Dove’s charitable foundation—and her lies. But just as a documentary team wraps up a shoot about the miracle worker, Eve is assaulted by a vengeful stranger intent on exposing what could be Dove’s darkest secret: murder…Tuscaloosa, 1934: a wily young orphan escapes the psychiatric hospital where she was born. When she joins the itinerant inspirational duo the Hawthorn Sisters, the road ahead is one of stirring new possibilities. And with an obsessive predator on her trail, one of untold dangers. For a young girl to survive, desperate choices must be made. Now, to protect her family, Eve will join forces with the investigative filmmaker and one of Dove’s friends, risking everything to unravel the truth behind the accusations against her grandmother. But will the truth set her free or set her world on fire?
My Review:
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Dove Jarrod was a renowned evangelist and faith healer. Only her granddaughter, Eve Candler, knows that Dove was a con artist. In the eight years since Dove’s death, Eve has maintained Dove’s charitable foundation—and her lies. But just as a documentary team wraps up a shoot about the miracle worker, Eve is assaulted by a vengeful stranger intent on exposing what could be Dove’s darkest secret: murder…Tuscaloosa, 1934: a wily young orphan escapes the psychiatric hospital where she was born. When she joins the itinerant inspirational duo the Hawthorn Sisters, the road ahead is one of stirring new possibilities. And with an obsessive predator on her trail, one of untold dangers. For a young girl to survive, desperate choices must be made. Now, to protect her family, Eve will join forces with the investigative filmmaker and one of Dove’s friends, risking everything to unravel the truth behind the accusations against her grandmother. But will the truth set her free or set her world on fire?
My Review:
I loved the format of this book, dual timelines...from 1934 to present day. The switching back and forth was coherent and easy to follow. This is a book about secrets and relationships, family and the romantic kind. Enchanting, poignantly real... Emily Carpenter's characters come to life.
I devoured this in a day. It's beautifully, intimately written, and leaves you feeling warm and cosy – despite exploring themes of growth, pain and loss. Emily Carpenter writes wonderfully, poetically at times. The words are equally poignant and entrancing I could not put this book down, it was brilliant and I look forward to reading her other works.
Disclousure:
Thank you NetGalley, Emily Carpenter and Lake Union Publishing for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an impartial review; all opinions are my own.#RevivingtheHawthornSisters #NetGalley
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