When We Believed in Mermaids: A Novel

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I struggled with this part and found myself skipping these sections and jumping back into the sister’s stories. People are running and screaming, while a news anchor with tousled hair and a vintage leather bomber jacket offers the news in properly grave tones. Who seemingly has it all, a rich and handsome husband, two terrific kids, a storied house to investigate – and a gigantic secret. I think the problem I had with this book and this seems to be a running trait is that the drama was either boring or completely far-fetched.

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Vianne and Isabelle Mauriac are two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals and passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path towards survival, love and freedom in war-torn France.The echoes of what happened in their childhood have rippled like aftershocks through everything that has happened since.

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Not for her the ordinary demise of a fiery car accident or a leap off a bridge, though she threatened those often enough. Mildly recommend as long as you don’t mind a little bit of sappiness and drifting around in a story that should do better to keep to it’s central theme. In various flashbacks throughout the novel, we see that she grew up on the Pacific coast with her parents and sister Josie, as well as their adopted brother Dylan.

But she has a dark past that has now shown up on her doorstep, and she is willing to do anything not to lose everything she has – even though eventually she will need to face her demons. Kit, emotionally torn from the sense of grief, loss, and anger, decides she must go to New Zealand and find/confront her sister.

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An island makes a very convenient metaphor; for our lucky characters, it is actually their whole world—even if it’s not forever, or as long as it lasts, but “just for the summer. We begin the story from Kit’s point of view as she believes, disbelieves, questions and investigates a possibility that has haunted her for all of her adult life. J. Courtney Sullivan's Maine meets the works of Elin Hilderbrand in this delicious summer read involving three strangers, one island, and a season packed with unexpected romance, well-meaning lies, and damaging secrets. And as we grow older, the childhood glasses come off and we are faced with harsh realities and painful truths.She is the creative mind behind twelve novels of women’s fiction, including titles such as “The Art of Inheriting Secrets,”“How to Bake a Perfect Life,” and “The All You Can Dream Buffet.