December 11, 2019
The Love Story of Missy Carmichael by Beth Morrey
Seventy-eight year old Missy Carmichael is adrift: she recently lost her husband, her son and
his family live in Australia, and her relationship with her daughter is
strained at best. She decides to attend
an event at the local park, just so she can tell her children that she is
getting out of the house. But her
decision to go to the park unexpectedly opens up a whole new world for her,
filled with friendship, new experiences, and dogs (that's Missy with her dog Bobby on the cover).
Quite a few novels have been compared to A Man Called Ove by
Fredrik Backman and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail
Honeyman, but this is one of the few books that actually deserves that
comparison. Missy is a senior citizen
version of what Eleanor would have become if her friends hadn’t held an
intervention, and there is also a tragic and heartwarming story similar to
Backman’s protagonist Ove.
This is another book to add to my favorites shelf. I found myself reading slowly since I didn’t
want the book to end. The Love Story
of Missy Carmichael will be published early in 2020 and I highly recommend
it.
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