This is a love story,
a complicated messy, love story.
Savannah Barrington founds out her husband of over 20 years wishes to leave
her for someone else and she is so broken.
It’s been twenty years and she didn’t see it coming. She and her husband had lost a child and
their marriage just kind of fell apart.
She kept moving as though nothing was wrong but she was shutting her
husband out as if he wasn’t hurting also.
Eventually he turns to someone else.
She runs away to her
parent’s lake house in the Berkshires.
There is an old woman who is very wise and her son and grand daughter
whose laughter leaves her shaken at first.
She finds herself drawn towards the son, but he isn’t someone who can
have anyone in his life. She finds out
her husband doesn’t want to give up, he decides he wants to fight for her
marriage. Savannah has a lot of grief
and wrestling with her feelings about God, while she works in an old greenhouse
with her neighbor and visits the towns old book store. She finds eventually that she may have to
forgive the unforgivable.
This book is about
someone whose life is messy and complicated in nature and is really a great
read. I received this book through NetGalley.com, and am writing this review as
I really enjoyed reading this book. It
gave me a lot to think about myself and I truly loved the book.
I gave it five stars. #WhereHopeBegins #NetGalley
I gave it five stars. #WhereHopeBegins #NetGalley
Description as found
on NetGalley:
Sometimes we’re
allowed to glimpse the beauty within the brokenness . . .
Savannah Barrington has always found solace at her parents’ lake
house in the Berkshires, and it’s the place that she runs to when her husband
of over twenty years leaves her. Though her world is shaken, and the future
uncertain, she finds hope through an old woman’s wisdom, a little girl’s
laughter, and a man who’s willing to risk his own heart to prove to Savannah
that she is worthy of love.
But soon Savannah is given a challenge she can’t run away from:
Forgiving the unforgivable. Amidst the ancient gardens and musty bookstores of
the small town she’s sought refuge in, she must reconcile with the grief that
haunts her, the God pursuing her, and the wounds of the past that might be
healed after all.
Where Hope Begins is
the story of grace in the midst of brokenness, pointing us to the miracles that
await when we look beyond our own expectations.
