Among them is Grace, a young woman whose mother died after a long illness, and who comes to the hospice to visit Margaret, one of her mother’s friends. Around him, though, the family that forms within a hospice center of the staff, patients, and family members come together to work on refurbishing a lounge. He visits every day, but doesn’t really interact with anyone. The slow first third takes place mostly at the hospice where Peter has placed Sally. Later, as they’re driving to the honeymoon, Peter and Sally end up scuffling in the car over that ticket, and that causes an accident that leaves Sally in a coma from which she can’t awaken. They are clearly very estranged and Sally tells her to go away and never come back her mother gives her a lottery ticket as a wedding gift. Sally is happy but calculating, and sneaks away to deal with her mother, who is an uninvited guest. The book opens with Sally and Peter’s wedding. I think that change of pace is deliberate given what happens in the story, but I’m still debating whether the pace and the plot worked for me. The first third of this novel is very slow, almost glacial, and the remainder flies with nonstop, eye-widening, what the hell did I just read seriously what. Genre: Contemporary Romance, Romance, Women's Fiction
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