In this new tale, Frank takes us to Hilton Head, SC, a noted retirement heaven or at least it's supposed to be. But for Big Al and Connie, the move from New Jersey to the coastal paradise has been fraught with just a few complications. Especially for their daughter, Grace.

Well, that's what she likes to be called. Her family insists on Maria Graziella, but Grace has had enough of the Neapolitan lifestyle. The whole ethnic thing had been ok when she was under her parents' watchful eyes back in New Jersey. Now Grace is an intelligent, (struggling-to-be) independent 31 year old woman living (in sin!) with the man she'd marry if they both weren't so committment-phobic. Michael is a doctor and a scientist and Grace has a good idea that he's also an atheist. Over the years, this dutiful Catholic girl has become ambivalent about her faith. But her family is so devoutly old-fashioned as it gets.

The stage is set for a major showdown that just might change Grace's outlook on life, family and the South itself.

This book is guaranteed to make you cry (if you're a sentimental reader like I am!) ~~ so make sure you have kleenexs available. It's a wonderful book ~~ so different from her other books and just as delightful. This one is probably her best book so far! The characters are well-written and thorough, so the reader feels as if she has met them before. They are like "everyone" ~~ and yet, so likable too. Grace is sassy but tender and her love for Michael is a beautiful thing to read about. It's a book about love, faith and family. It's a book that you cannot put down for a minute. It's just wonderful.

I loved this book. I have read several of Dot Franks books. They are all centered around the love of some "lowcountry" island. She usually has a tiny little supernatural element in her books. Her characters love to eat--- many life problems are solved around the family table! This book had those elements and more. This is a much more serious book than her others. It involves true love, religion, belief in God and the ability to change based on what life throws you. in contrast, it also has alot of humor. This book is a great read and was well worth the spent credit!

Another great Southern novel by Dorothea Benton Frank, set in Hilton Head, SC about an Italian girl in the South. Great characters and relationships.

This is a departure from Frank's earlier stories. Still based in the South Carolina low country, the story is of a transplanted New Jersey Italian family and especially Grace, the daughter. It's more a story of families, and has its particularly melancholy moments as Grace's lover fights with cancer and the grandmother breaks her hip and fights being in rehab. But it's still a super story and I enjoyed it.

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Very Interesting - lots going on

Wonderful story! A nice relatively quick read.

Another good Dorothea Benton Frank read.

Very touching. Poor Grace is caught in a tug-of-war between the man she loves and her loving family. Then tragedy occurs, and it takes a real miracle to bring about a happy ending...

Very good book! My favorite by Benton Frank so far...

This book started out good. The ending was a little too touchy feely for me.

I didn't like this book, and I have loved all her others. The story line just didn't grab me. I finished it so I could mail it - not because I wanted to.

EXCELLENT!

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