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Small Blessings
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May 1, 2019
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May 31, 2019

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Brenda
Rosie Larson had turned her life around once she discovered she was pregnant. The beatings she’d taken were a thing of the past with Joel in jail. Now, Petey was eleven and Joel had been released from prison – Rosie kept hearing footsteps behind her; the phone would ring with no one there. She knew it was Joel, but she was determined not to let him win this time.

Isobel Hutchins’ career as a top-notch lawyer had been a driving force for her for so long; Marcus, her husband had wanted a family, bu
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Tanya
Jan 16, 2019 rated it really liked it
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Small Blessings is the story of Rosie, a single mother with an 11 year old son, juggles work and TAFE as she tries to make a life for them both. Isobel is married, working a high pressure job as a criminal defense lawyer, when she gets word her mother is terminally ill.

Two very different women who's lives intersect at a time when both need it most.

Each chapter alternates between the ladies and their stories, and jumps between memories and present day.

Look, it's quite a harsh, despondant sort of
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Feb 11, 2019 marked it as to-read
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