Paperback, 250 pages
Published October 2016 by Red Adept Publishing, LLC
A simple phone
call disrupts Nell Williams’s well-ordered life. Her mother, Mary, is in a
hospital in Vermont. But her mother is supposed to be safely tucked away in an
assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, so Nell can’t fathom why she would
be so far from home.
After notifying her sister, Bridget, Nell hops on a plane and rushes to her mother’s side. There, she discovers that her mother has been living a second life. Mary has another home and a set of complex relationships with people her daughters have never met.
When Nell and Bridget delve deeper into their mother’s lakeside hideaway, they uncover a vault of family secrets and the gateway to change for all three women.
After notifying her sister, Bridget, Nell hops on a plane and rushes to her mother’s side. There, she discovers that her mother has been living a second life. Mary has another home and a set of complex relationships with people her daughters have never met.
When Nell and Bridget delve deeper into their mother’s lakeside hideaway, they uncover a vault of family secrets and the gateway to change for all three women.
My Thoughts…
A mother, Mary
Reilly, is living a life full of secrets.
Two daughters, Nell and Bridget, are thrown into this puzzling, secret
life without any warnings and are forced to discover the cause for the
secrets. Then throw in the
neighbor Jake, his wife Ginnie, and their son Adam and the secrets just keep
coming.
The Taste of
Air is so unique. The story of the
Vietnam war and all the horrors that go along with war set up the meetings of
Mary and Thomas, her husband. From there
the story gets better and better. The
choices that Mary makes from the very beginning only affect her. I enjoyed being able to see the history that
goes along with these life changing choices.
It was nice to see her logic and what was happening in the world that
would cause her to start a secret life away from the husband and children that
were so obviously her entire world.
As a daughter
myself I was invested in Nell and Bridget.
While Mary’s life is the main story, Nell and Bridget are going through
their own struggles personally and I wanted them to find their own
happiness. I liked the support,
understanding, and unwavering love that I felt between them. They were sisters, it didn’t matter what
else was going on, and they had each other’s backs no matter what. I also enjoyed that they pushed each other
to be happy. They certainly wanted what
was best for each other and were not shy in telling their thoughts and
feelings.
A Taste of Air
is an eye opening book. Not all things
are as they appear yet a true family will stick together and work through any
surprises. I recommend picking up your
own copy.
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