After 25 years of working in the big
city, Melinda Foster mut leave her job, big downsizing and no new jobs to be
found. She and all of her friends are at a loss. She receives a call from her Aunt and Uncle
who own a small-town hardware store in Iowa. It’s been in the family forever
and they really need her help as her Uncle had an accident and had to have surgery,
he won’t be running the store any time soon and her Aunt can’t run the store as
he needs much taking care of. She
sublets her place for the summer and turns up to help out. She finds a place out
in the country with a for rent sign, a beautiful farmhouse that needs some TLC,
when she calls, she decides to go and see it.
She agrees to take care of the place in exchange for a really low rent
and finds that she’ll be taking care of the owner’s dog who has a main role in
the book, along with chickens, sheep and a garden. The owner agrees to go to the nursing home where
his brother is living, he’s lost his room mate and is starting to lose his
memory. They feel if he goes there, he
may want to stay there and also that he will help his brother remember some of
the past and the present by being his room mate and helping him out. The owner doesn’t want to leave his farm
unless he feels his dog will have a keeper that will care about him and that
someone will take care of the far with as much care as he would. There are some twists and turns and I have always
lived in a big community of Michigan and have family also in Iowa. I always said after one visit that I would
never return. This book gave me more
insight into small town living/country living and I see more why my family once
moving there enjoys living there. I
still don’t plan to move, at 61 I don’t see a big change in my future but you
never know.
I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I received it in a kindle format for free and
my words above were my own freely given. I wasn’t required to give a review and
wasn’t paid for my review. I would love
to read the next book in the series, “Growing Harvest!”
Enjoy the first novel in a
heartwarming rural fiction series! Melinda
Foster is already at a turning point when the "for rent" sign beckons
her down a dusty gravel road. Facing forty and downsized from her copywriting
job at a Twin Cities ad agency, Melinda is struggling to find her way forward
when a phone call brings her home to rural Iowa. It's not long before Melinda
is living in a faded farmhouse, caring for a barn full of animals, and working
at her family's hardware store in the community of Prosper, whose motto is
"The Great Little Town That Didn't." And just like the vast garden
she tends under the summer sun, Melinda soon begins to thrive. Filled with
memorable characters, from a big-hearted farm dog to the weather-obsessed owner
of the local co-op, "Growing Season" celebrates the challenges and
joys of rural life.
