Award-winning romance author Sophia Nash makes her women's fiction debut
with a beautifully crafted, funny, and life-affirming story set in the
Atlantic seaside region of France, as one woman returns to France to
sell her family home and finds an unexpected chance to start
over--perfect for fans of Le Divorce and The Little Paris Bookshop.
Home is the last place Kate expected to find herself...
As a child, Kate Hamilton was packed off each summer to her
grandfather's ivy-covered villa in southern France. That ancestral home,
named Marthe Marie, is now crumbling, and it falls to Kate--regarded as
the most responsible and practical member of her family--to return to
the rugged, beautiful seaside region to confront her grandfather's debts
and convince him to sell.
Kate makes her living as a psychologist and life coach, but her own life
is in as much disarray as Marthe Marie. Her marriage has ended, and
she's convinced that she has failed her teenaged daughter, Lily, in
unforgiveable ways. While delving into colorful family history and the
consequences of her own choices, Kate reluctantly agrees to provide
coaching to Major Edward Soames, a British military officer suffering
with post-traumatic stress. Breaking through his shell, and dealing with
idiosyncratic locals intent on viewing her as an Americanized outsider,
will give Kate new insight into who--and where--she wants to be. The
answers will prove as surprising as the secrets that reside in the
centuries-old villa.
Witty and sophisticated, rich in history and culture, Sophia Nash's
novel vividly evokes both its idyllic French setting and the universal
themes of self-forgiveness and rebuilding in a story as touching as it
is wise.
