Originally having read The Secret Life of Bees by this author, I was not prepared to like this book at all since I didn't like Bees. I was, however, impressed by this story of a woman's trip home to visit her mother who never fully recovered from the father's death 33 years earlier. The mother having cut off her own finger with a meat cleaver prompts her friends' to call for the daughter to come home. Frantc with worry, and apprehensive at the thought of returning to the small island where she grew up in the shadow of her beloved father's death and her mother's fanatical Catholicism, Jessie, the main character, gets on the next plane leaving behind her psychiatrist husband, Hugh and their college-age daughter, Dee.
While on the tiny island where she grew up Jessie meets and is wildly attracted to Brother Thomas, a junior monk at the secluded Benedictine monastery. Brother Thomas is just as confused with taking his final vows as Jessie is confused about the state of her bland marriage.
Rated ****4/5 I loved this book. Totally unprepared to like it since I though her first book about bees was dull, and overrated.
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