Now That You Mention It Book Review

I was obviously spending a lot of time on the new release section reserving books that sounded good because another one came on my reserve shelf that I didn't remember and haven't even read the author before.  Now That You Mention It: A Novel by Kristan Higgins was the next book in my pile to read and I was interested in finding out why I picked it out.  I read the description on the back and it did sound interesting so I decided that I must have been thinking when I picked it out and started reading!

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With a tough islander mother who’s always been distant, a wild-child sister in jail and a withdrawn teenage niece as eager to ditch the island as Nora once was, Nora has her work cut out for her if she’s going to take what might be her last chance to mend the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.

For some reason this one was in large print hard back but it made it really easy to read with less light but it was a little heavier.  Nora was an amazing character that we followed through the book and was really pulling for success.  It started with some of her current life and flashed back to different parts of her memory to give you a little information about how Nora became who she was.  I usually have a hard time with books that go back and forth in time but this book did an amazing job to make it perfectly clear what was going on.  I loved learning more about her past which just made you love her all the more while hoping that she gets everything she wants in life. She has moved to her hometown and is staying with her mom while recovering from getting hit by a car outside her work.  She built herself up so much from the time that she left her hometown that this is the first time she is going home in over a decade so it is interesting to see all of the changes in her and the people she knew when she was growing up.  I hope that you check out this book and enjoy it as much as I did!