Now That You Mention It by Kristan Higgins

Now That You Mention It

by Kristan Higgins

New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins welcomes you home in this witty, emotionally charged novel about the complications of life, love and family

One step forward. Two steps back. The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a car and then overhearing her boyfriend hit on another doctor when she thought she was dying? Two major steps back.

Injured in more ways than one, Nora feels her carefully built life cracking at the edges. There's only one place to land: home. But the tiny Maine community she left fifteen years ago doesn't necessarily want her. At every turn, someone holds the prodigal daughter of Scupper Island responsible for small-town drama and big-time disappointments.

With a tough islander mother who's always been distant, a wild-child sister in jail, and a withdrawn teenage niece as eager to ditch the island as Nora once was-Nora has her work cut out for her if she's going to take what might be her last chance to mend the family. Balancing loss and opportunity, dark events from her past with hope for the future, Nora will discover that tackling old pain makes room for promise...and the chance to begin again.

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5 of 5 stars

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Wow. As a long-time fan of Kristan Higgins I've read every book the woman has written- this one definitely has more drama and had me feeling emotions I don't recall experiencing from her collection. This is a woman's fiction novel, not contemporary romance, yet all the checkmarks were there for the laughs (✔), tears of joy (✔) and sorrow (✔), quirky family and characters (✔), charming settings (✔), drama (✔), as well as the happy ending (✔). In this novel, KH added mystery and suspense to the checklist. The story had me thinking about deeper issues the characters were dealing with. Shock and fear (for Nora) were emotions in a couple of scenes I don't recall experiencing in Kristan's previous books.

I'd like to say that Kristan Higgins's writing has matured in content. She has a gift of bringing to readers an excellent balance of her signature humor, family drama, special friendship bonds, community, her precious pets, and a sense of happiness and fulfillment in the very end. Now That You Mention It is written in first person POV, so I really got to feel what Nora was going through. I highly recommend Now That You Mention It and give it 5 emotional hearts.

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