Abbie Rose Stone is taking a huge chance and starting her own hard
cider business. Have spent her entire adult life as a nurse in Ann Arbor,
MI, married to a hardworking lawyer, and raising three sons, she's ready
to spend more time at their cottage, work in an orchard, and start
making cider for real. Using money from her inheritance, Abbie is
exhilarated by this new chapter in her life, but her husband and sons
are less than enthused. For some reason, the rest of her family isn't as
excited about hard cider as she is... but she won't let that stop her.
Spending more time in the small town where their cottage is, Abbie
meets and becomes friends with a young woman named Julia, who has
just moved to town. As the two women get to know one another, Abbie
is surprised not only by how much she's quick to reveal to Julia - her
strained marriage, her struggles with infertility over the years, and
adopting two of her three sons - but also by how interested Julia is in
her life...
HARD CIDER by Barbara Stark-
Nemon was an enjoyable read. Abbie has tenacity and aplomb when it
came to her new passion, but she was still a caring mother and wife. I
did think the plot was a little rushed at times, skipping months or even
years back and forth in time. On the other hand, there were times when
the explanations for various tasks dealing with the cider process that
were so descriptive and detailed, it was almost like reading a handbook
for cider production. Nonetheless, I enjoyed reading a book about an
older woman figuring out what she wanted her next endeavor to be,
how it changed her family's views of her, as well as letting her reflect
on past events in her life.
Abbie Rose Stone’s acquired wisdom runs deep, and so do her
scars. She has successfully navigated the shoals of a long
marriage, infertility, challenging children, and a career.
Now it’s her turn to realize her dream: producing hard apple
cider along the northern shores of Lake Michigan that she
loves. She manages to resist new versions of the old pull of
family dynamics that threaten to derail her plan―but nothing
can protect her from the shock a lovely young stranger
delivers when she exposes a long-held secret. In the wake of
this revelation, Abbie must overcome circumstances that
severely test her self-determination, her loyalties, and her
understanding of what constitutes true family.
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