People We Love A genuinely uplifting and heartwarming novel eBook Jenny Harper
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"An engaging and delightful read. Jenny Harper is a most gifted storyteller." Alexander McCall Smith
‘Thoroughly entertaining’ Katie Fforde
For readers of Jojo Moyes, Jodi Picoult, David Nicholls - you'll love Jenny Harper's "People We Love".
Her life is on hold – until an unlikely visitor climbs in through the kitchen window.
A year after her brother’s fatal accident, Lexie’s life seems to have reached a dead end. She is back home in small-town Hailesbank with her shell-shocked parents, treading softly around their fragile emotions.
As the family business drifts into decline, Lexie’s passion for painting and for her one-time mentor Patrick have been buried as deep as her unexpressed grief, until the day her lunch is interrupted by a strange visitor in a bobble hat, dressing gown and bedroom slippers, who climbs through the window.
Elderly Edith’s batty appearance conceals a secret and starts Lexie on a journey that gives her an inspirational artistic idea and rekindles her appetite for life. With friends in support and ex-lover Cameron seemingly ready to settle down, do love and laughter beckon after all?
People We Love A genuinely uplifting and heartwarming novel eBook Jenny Harper
Jenny Harper's PEOPLE WE LOVE is such a moving, lovely novel. Its story of the power of art to move and heal the human heart is original and deeply touching.Artist Lexie Gordon's life, family, and career have been badly derailed by pain and grief. None of her family seems able to move on from the tragic loss of Lexie's brother, Jamie. Lexie herself has set her paints and pastels aside in an effort to help support her bereaved parents. Then an odd encounter with an elderly woman suffering from dementia proves to be a turning point in Lexie's life.
The old woman rediscovers a long-lost treasure: an old pair of hand-knit baby booties, a memento of her beloved infant who had lived only a few days. When Lexie sees the visceral emotions the booties stir in the old lady, she is struck by the power of simple objects – in this case, shoes – to stir the heart's dearest memories and strongest feelings. Compelled to express those feelings and stories through her art, Lexie begins to paint and draw shoes that hold special meaning for others. Slowly, not only does Lexie's heart begin to heal, but her family and community begin to revive as well. And with that healing, Lexie finds the possibility of reconciliation and love.
PEOPLE WE LOVE will lift your heart. I highly recommend this beautifully written and deeply felt story.
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People We Love A genuinely uplifting and heartwarming novel eBook Jenny Harper Reviews
This is the most beautiful love story that I have read in a long while.. It drew me in from the first page. Why had Alexa shut the door on her own life, why had her father arranged a meeting on such an important date.
Where will the story go with Patrick and Cameron and where will Edith fit in ? How will it resolve?
Why has Harper designed her heroine to be weak, but written such a story around Alexa in strong language.Evocative vocabulary , good change of pace, intrigue, a touch of sex but so much more hidden within the descriptive text. The depth of feeling and understanding of Cameron with Edith is exquisite. The thread of the shoes going is cleverly constructed, with the story line dipping in and out of the characters effortlessly.
This is a 'don't put me down' book. It is her best yet, more depth to the characters.
Looking for an easy to unpredictable love story using beautiful language? This is it..
Again, Jenny Harper has shown an insight in the everyday problems of life that mess up families and relationships.
I have been given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review
Beautiful and poignant, People We Love will keep you attached to its pages via your heartstrings. In her new novel, Jenny Harper proves to have a deep understanding of love and relationships, especially those between family members.
As the Gordon family find themselves swallowed up by grief, they are adrift and lost in their pain. With only daughter Lexie to moor themselves to, she takes the emotional brunt of their heartache but struggles to bring her parents back to the people they once were.
But Lexie is lost too; having given up the opportunity of a lifetime, her life is now on hold and failing to restart. With Edith’s rather unconventional appearance comes an idea that sets in motion the ability to exercise the painful emotions weighing them all down.
I adored the idea of Lexie’s art show and all it represented, in fact, I marvelled at the genius of it. The more I thought about it, the more powerful the idea became to me and I found myself quite invested in the whole thing. At the start of each chapter, I eagerly read each ‘shoe’ description and the incredible stories behind them - some actually moved me to tears.
People We Love is about accepting life throws us curve balls from time to time, that it’s OK to feel and express the kind of pain that reverberates down to our very soul, while still embracing those we love. Jenny Harper does all this with a natural finesse that isn’t easily found, ensuring readers feel what her characters feel and taking them on the journey as they learnt to heal themselves.
A meaningful and powerful read.
A beautiful story of loss on many levels, grieve, friendship, love, forgiveness and letting go. A story of growth. Most of all, Love.
A novel structured around shoes. If that sounds odd, it works well, being in keeping with the main character - an artist who paints them.
Sensitive treatment of the lives of many people gives this novel an extra area of appeal over others.
Jenny Harper's PEOPLE WE LOVE is such a moving, lovely novel. Its story of the power of art to move and heal the human heart is original and deeply touching.
Artist Lexie Gordon's life, family, and career have been badly derailed by pain and grief. None of her family seems able to move on from the tragic loss of Lexie's brother, Jamie. Lexie herself has set her paints and pastels aside in an effort to help support her bereaved parents. Then an odd encounter with an elderly woman suffering from dementia proves to be a turning point in Lexie's life.
The old woman rediscovers a long-lost treasure an old pair of hand-knit baby booties, a memento of her beloved infant who had lived only a few days. When Lexie sees the visceral emotions the booties stir in the old lady, she is struck by the power of simple objects – in this case, shoes – to stir the heart's dearest memories and strongest feelings. Compelled to express those feelings and stories through her art, Lexie begins to paint and draw shoes that hold special meaning for others. Slowly, not only does Lexie's heart begin to heal, but her family and community begin to revive as well. And with that healing, Lexie finds the possibility of reconciliation and love.
PEOPLE WE LOVE will lift your heart. I highly recommend this beautifully written and deeply felt story.
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