Bennett is a middle-aged woman who has lived a very colourless life. We are introduced to her when she is made redundant from her job, a job that she was miserable in, really. She chooses to downsize and move to a smaller house, where she begins to open her life up, thanks to the people she meets. I absolutely loved this book. The narrator style is an interesting one, almost archaic, and it is evocative to me of Alcott’s Little Women or L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series. But it suits the book and it suits Bennett as a character. I wasn’t sure at the beginning if I would love Bennett, as she was so passive. But she developed and grew and I really found myself being so proud of her.
The book travels from Wilmington over to Uganda briefly and back again, as Bennett embarks on a mission of mercy to save the sister of the children who are adopted by her neighbour. But the journey itself is within the people she gathers to her, who build a home in her life.
I highly recommend this. I think it’s a beautifully written, quiet story where a woman finds herself, love and her true calling later in life. I award 5 stars.
