Genre:
Contemporary Fiction/Women’s Fiction
Description:
“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.”
Author:
“USA Today bestselling author Gail Cleare has written for newspapers,
magazines, Fortune 50 companies and AOL. Her award-winning ad agency
represented the creators of the Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles. She was the turtle Leonardo's date for the world
premiere of the second TMNT movie, and got to wear a black evening gown and
sparkly shoes. Gail lives on an 18th century farm in Massachusetts with her
family and dogs, cats, chickens, black bears, blue herons, rushing streams and
wide, windy skies. She's into organic gardening and nature photography, and can
often be found stalking wild creatures with a 300 mm lens.”
For more, visit her website.
Appraisal:
While not a mystery, The Taste
of Air has a bit of a mystery at its root. How did Nell’s mother get from
an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts to a Vermont hospital? As Nell and
her sister Bridget uncover the answer to that question, an answer that is far
more complicated than they would have dreamed, it sets the stage for them and
the reader to consider a lot of things. How well do we really know the people
we think we know best? Odds are you’re hiding things from your kids, parents,
and/or spouse, not to mention other family and friends. What makes you think
they aren’t doing the same?
While I enjoyed The Taste of Air
for the story, full of suspense, mystery, and drama, which kept me entertained,
it also got me thinking. That’s a good thing, isn’t it?
Format/Typo
Issues:
No issues
Rating:
***** Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 85-90,000 words
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