Things Left Unsaid by Courtney Walsh

 

Things Left Unsaid 

October 30, 2018

by Courtney Walsh (Author)

An emotional novel of family, friendship and forgiveness from Courtney Walsh, the New York Times bestselling author of Hometown Girl.

Lyndie St. James is thrilled that her best friend, Elle, is getting married but unprepared for the emotional storm of the wedding week and returning to her childhood summer home of Sweethaven. The idyllic cottage community harbors some of her best―and worst―memories. It’s not only the tragic death of her childhood friend Cassie that has haunted her for ten years, it’s the other secrets she’s buried that have kept her from moving on.

But Lyndie isn’t the only one with secrets.

Cassie’s mother, father and brother, still struggling with the loss, have been drifting further and further apart. And Elle herself, the last to see Cassie alive, carries an impossible burden of guilt. Now reunited, each of them has a choice: to reveal the truths of that night or continue to live in its shadow. That means embarking on a personal journey of the heart―to escape the darkness and all its regrets and to finally come to terms with the past and, especially, with each other.

My thoughts:  Things Left Unsaid is a woman's fiction with a touch of romance that left me hungering for more.  At first, the story was rather slow starting,  but as I got used to the characters and into the story it grew on me and I did not want this book to end.  There was no real closure to the book. I want to know what happened next. And I wanted to start over and read it again and again and again. It is rare to find a book like that.  This book is more than a few years old but it is definitely a must read. I missed it when it first came out.  Courtney Walsh is one of my favorite authors in this genre and the story is not to be missed.