Home to Chicory Lane #bookreview @Litfuse
The Book: Home to Chicory Lane
The Author: Deborah Raney
About the book: Landyn longs for home, but her mother may have other plans.
Audrey Whitman’s dreams are coming true. Now that their five kids are grown, she and her husband, Grant, are turning their beloved family home into a cozy bed and breakfast just a mile outside of Langhorne, Missouri.
Opening weekend makes Audrey anxious, with family and friends coming from all over to help celebrate the occasion. But when Audrey’s daughter, Landyn, arrives, the U-Haul she’s pulling makes it clear she’s not just here for a few days. Audrey immediately has questions. What happened in New York that sent Landyn running home? Where was Landyn’s husband, Chase? And what else was her daughter not telling her? One thing was for sure, the Chicory Inn was off to a rocky start. Can Audrey still realize her dream and at the same time provide the comfort of home her daughter so desperately needs?
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My thoughts: I wasn’t really sure what to make of this book at first. It started out a bit slow for me but soon picked up pace. As soon as people started arriving I found myself going back and forth a bit to put people where they should be so I’d know who belonged and who was a guest. Thought it seems even the children didn’t really belong at times! Great read! I fell in love with the characters once I got them sorted out and find myself wanting to learn more about them and visit them again soon!
About the author: Deborah Raney’s books have won numerous awards, including the RITA, National Readers Choice Award, HOLT Medallion, and the Carol Award, and have twice been Christy Award finalists. She and her husband, Ken, recently traded small-town life in Kansas—the setting of many of Deborah’s novels—for life in the (relatively) big city of Wichita, where they enjoy gardening, antiquing, movies, and traveling to visit four children and a growing brood of grandchildren who all live much too far away.
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