I was recently given the opportunity to read ‘A Kingsbury Collection’ – three novels by Karen Kingsbury. I’d like to offer some thoughts on the first novel, “Where Yesterday Lives”. Karen Kingsbury has been one of my favorite authors for years, and this novel did not disappoint.
Ellen Barrett, a Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist must confront long buried issues when her father unexpectedly dies, and the family gathers for a week to plan his funeral. Ellen must face head on that her relationships with her siblings has all but crumbled, her marriage is headed South, and she is being drawn to her first love and ex-boyfriend, who seems to have everything that she feels that she is missing in her own marriage.
Throughout the week in Ellen’s picturesque hometown, she and her five siblings are struggling to repair their broken relationships and deal with a long ago secret in one sibling’s past that has almost destroyed her.
Ellen wants nothing more than to have the family she had as a teenager: the bigger-than-life father who held them all together and the sisters and brother who always had each others’ backs. And she is also recognizing that she has all but forgotten about her relationship with the Lord, which is the main reason that her marriage is on the skids.
This book is about forgiveness, restoration and healing – all themes that Karen Kingsbury handles beautifully, and that will have readers confronting these kinds of issues in their own lives.
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“I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.”
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