Small
Blessings: A Novel
BY Martha
Woodroof
AVAILABLE AUGUST 12, 2014 - pRE-ORDER now!
Advanced Readers Edition I received
Official Book Cover - As seen on Amazon
Overview:
From debut novelist Martha Woodroof comes an inspiring tale
of a small-town college professor, a remarkable new woman at the bookshop, and
the ten-year old son he never knew he had.
Tom Putnam has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled
life. An English professor in a sleepy college town, he spends his days
browsing the Shakespeare shelves at the campus bookstore, managing the oddball
faculty in his department and caring, alongside his formidable mother-in-law,
for his wife Marjory, a fragile shut-in with unrelenting neuroses, a condition
exacerbated by her discovery of Tom’s brief and misguided affair with a
visiting poetess a decade earlier.
Then, one evening at the bookstore, Tom and Marjory meet Rose Callahan, the
shop's charming new hire, and Marjory invites Rose to their home for dinner,
out of the blue, her first social interaction since her breakdown. Tom wonders
if it’s a sign that change is on the horizon, a feeling confirmed upon his
return home, where he opens a letter from his former paramour, informing him
he'd fathered a son who is heading Tom's way on a train. His mind races
at the possibility of having a family after so many years of loneliness. And it
becomes clear change is coming whether Tom’s ready or not.
A heartwarming story with a charmingly imperfect cast of characters to cheer
for, Small Blessings's wonderfully optimistic heart that reminds us
that sometimes, when it feels like life has veered irrevocably off track, the
track shifts in ways we never can have imagined.
My Review:
Author Martha Woodroof’s “Small Blessings” is a book you won’t want to put down. Each of the characters are so dynamic one is able to visualize what they are doing, feeling, and even thinking throughout the book. Everyone, no matter who you are, will be able to relate to each of the characters. I enjoyed reading about the different relationships (work, family, friends, & new) that developed throughout the book. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves reading a heartwarming story with relatable characters with their imperfect traits, I guarantee that you won’t be able to set the book down once you start!
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