Author: Elizabeth Castellano
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2024
Pages: 304
Rating: Do Not Recommend
Synopsis: When Kathleen Deane's husband, Tom, tells her he's no longer happy with his life and their marriage, Kathleen is confused. They live in Kansas. They've been married thirty years. Who said anything about being happy? But with Tom off finding himself, Kathleen starts to think about what she wants. And her thought lead her to a small beach community on the east coast, a town called Whitbey that has always looked lovely in the Christmas letters her childhood friend Josie sends every year.
It turns out, though, that life in Whitbey is nothing like Josie's letters. Kathleen's new neighbor, Rosemary, is cantankerous, and the town's supervisor won't return Kathleen's emails, but worst of all is the Sugar Cube, the monstrosity masquerading as a holiday home that Kathleen's absentee neighbors are building next door to her quaint (read: tiny) cottage. As Kathleen gets more and more involved in a fight against the Sugar Cube and town politics overall, she realizes that Whitbey may not be a fairytale, but it's exactly what she needed.
Review: My book picker is broken. This is another book that I simply didn't love. It's a GMA Book Club pick and People magazine posted rave reviews as well, but real people aren't rating it favorably on Goodreads and elsewhere.
It had the potential to be cute or even funny, but it wasn't either. Ugh.
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