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Award-winning author of Comfort Plans, Kimberly Fish, delivers a novel about family, forgiveness, and the seeds of second chances.Eight years ago, Autumn Joy Worthington, still reeling from the bitter divorce of her Grammy-Award-winning parents, endured the betrayal of a man who’d promised her a wedding. Running from pain seemed the logical response. Reinventing herself in Comfort, Texas, as a lavender grower, she creates a wildly successful gardening haven that draws in tourists and establishes an identity far removed from her parents’ fame. Her mother’s retirement from stardom inspires AJ to offer her refuge and nurse the dream that they could move past old hurts and the tarnish of the music industry … to find friendship. A grandmother in the early stages of dementia and the return of AJ’s father complicate the recovery, but nothing sets the fragile reality spinning like the arrival of Nashville music executive, Luke English.
As Alzheimer’s slowly knocks away the filters of their family, AJ comes to appreciate the true meanings of love and forgiveness — and that the power of redemption can generate from the most unlikely sources. When AJ uncovers the grit to make hard choices, she also discovers that the flowers that bloom the brightest can have the most tangled roots.
“Baby, we can never go back. We can only go forward,” Inez said breathlessly. “And you can start over as many times as you like.”
Kimberly! Kimberly! Here I go again, I am crying. Another book that had me in tears by the end. I am not complaining in the least. I love gardens. I love plants. I love lavender. I love a perfect story. Crying is so much better than having no emotions at all about a story.
Kimberly Fish truly wove a gem of a family and a garden story with Comfort Songs. The story mainly interlaces the relationship of AJ (Autumn Joy) and her grandmother, Inez. Inez is suffering from the early onset of dementia and you are carried on a splendid winding creek of how the lives of a granddaughter and a grandmother are quite similar regarding their pasts.
More than that Comfort Songs is about a small family story of Worthington women that includes a dog named Beans that runs the gamut of emotions, along with a mix of new love. Let’s face it – we all have trust issues at some point in our lives. Fish allows her characters to heart-wrenchingly figure out who is worthy of trust and this carries her story full-fold.
Fish’s sensory writing makes this story engrossing from the beginning to the end. I swear I could smell lavender the entire time I was reading Comfort Songs. The characters are relatable from the grandmother with dementia, to the mom who thinks she’s a has-been singer/songwriter to the daughter who wants a simple life of gardening and her family around her.
“The beauty of a well-planned garden is the surprises that bloom every season—the flowers left behind by bird droppings or a windblown seed. Nature is mischievous.” —”Lessons from Lavender Hill”
The added Lessons from Lavender Hill referenced in Comfort Songs are accurately the perfect lessons that reflect this story. Life is full of surprises – both good and bad. You never know what might pop up in your life (or your garden beds).
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