I read Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah at the suggestion of a friend. It is essentially two stories in one. The contemporary story is about two sisters whose father dies unexpectedly. On his deathbed, their father asks them to connect to their emotionally distant mother. Their mother agrees to tell the ending to a fairy tale which she has shared they were children. No surprise, the fairy tale is actually their mother’s life story and is the more interesting part of the book.
The first half of the book drags very slowly and the characters not all that likable. It picks up and the ending is nice, if not entirely plausible. Fans of women fiction will like it more than I did. I gave it three out of five stars. Unfortunately, Amazon has it at full price of $9.99.