Martha, on the other hand, has other ideas and wants her mother to sell her house and move closer to the daughters, which disrupts the natural flow of family life with them.

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Could Jochebed have imagined that God’s actual design for her son involved flight into exile and danger? I’ve been reading Erica James novels for over 20 years – hers were the first adult books I ever read, and her books are always fun and enjoyable. Wow, in the chapter on Michel, the author really puts thoughts and motivations into Michel and David that just aren’t in the Bible.The arrival of Ellis has also put a spanner in the works of her plans for Naomi to move closer and be a hands-on grandparent. The two slowly reconnect: over small talk at first, then gossip from the small town Lucy grew up in. Even though I enjoyed the others this one engaged me much more and I found it compulsively readable.

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The idyllic setting of the harbour village of Tilsham on the Sussex coast and Anchor House with its beach access contrasted sharply with the slightly darker undertone to the story.Oprah Winfrey chose White Oleanderas as a book club option and narrated the audio CD because of Astrid's commitment to learn to live motherless. She leaned close to him suddenly and kissed him on the cheek, and then awkwardly said, “I’ve got lipstick on you,” and rubbed at the stain with her gloved hand, and then squeezed his hand and said, “Goodbye, Morton,” and turned away from him quickly and walked across the avenue against a light, and knew that he watched her until she was out of sight, and told herself the tears in her eyes were caused by the wind.

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Erica James does have an uncanny knack of making the places she describes feel real, and the house was almost as much a character in the story as the human ones.The author of nineteen bestselling novels, and the winner of the 2006 Romantic Novel of the Year Award, Erica divides her time between Suffolk and Lake Como in Italy. When not reading books or selling them, she can be found blogging, working on her first novel or cozying up at a library. I want them to have the shift and redistribution of their relationship that I never got to have with my own mom, that acrobatic feat of love where everything is turned upside down and yet they are both still able to keep their balance. In The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak, Shannon Bream examines the lives of biblical women to see how God’s plans can turn our worlds upside down.

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Between Bream's interpretation and watching the first two seasons of THE CHOSEN, I feel "baptized" in powerful words and feelings. For example, when the author talked about mothers and sons I did not think that Rebekah and Isaac were on the outs with each other. The novel chronicles the year following her mother’s death as Nikki grieves this sudden loss and tries to make sense of the tragedy.

There’s a particularly moving episode relating to Amanda’s sister, who has a breakdown and through her we track psychiatric treatment and all the new drugs coming into use. Ms James doesn’t use stereotypes, there are no wicked people or femme fatales which is so refreshing. But the one thing she has no control over is falling pregnant despite having been married ten months and both her and Tom keen for children.