I finished this book a couple months ago, and I find myself still thinking about it, about Rebecca, her life, her choices. This book was recommended to me, since my own life has some uncanny similarities.

This book is about family, and about love - love lost due to death (Rebecca's late husband), and love lost due to Rebecca "throwing it away" as she left her fiance so many years ago. It's about the love that is all around Rebecca - which is mostly family by marriage, even though her husband has been gone over 20 years. Over the course of the book, she evaluates her actions and decisions from when she was in college, and if there's a way to "get back" to who she was then.

I can see why some reveiwers have called Rebecca self absorbed (or worse). But that's really the focus of the book. It's not a thriller with a bunch of plot twists, it's about her - her family, her business, her joys, her worries.

While I'm not Rebecca, our personalities I don't think are similar, her life has some amazing similarites to my own: I'm 51, she's 53. In my early 20's I left a perfectly good marriage with a man my age, to marry the love of my life, a man 13 years older, with daughters who lived with us. He later was killed in a car accident. I have 7 grandchildren. I am close to my husband's family, and have occasional e-mails with my ex from 30 yrs ago. I doubt I will ever read another novel with so much of my life story. So probably I looked at it a little different from others.