How the Light Gets In
A Novel

Count the Ways was a raw and emotional read. This sequel, was a step back in time to the events that shook this family at their very core. Now 20 years later, more momentous events bring them together while others create a distance. Maynard magnificently captures an authentic character in Eleonor wit......more

3.5 stars Let me get this out of the way upfront before I say why I enjoyed this novel. The repetitive nature of the narration was bothersome . I get that in the first part, it was important to bring the reader up to speed if they were reading this as a stand-alone and have not read Count the Ways.......more

Joyce Maynard has another brilliant book on her hands with this gripping follow up to Count the Ways. This book can easily be read as a stand-alone, but I highly recommend reading that book first as it was wonderful as well. After the death of her ex-husband, Cam, Eleanor has moved back to the farm i......more

4+ stars This is the follow-up to “Count The Ways” written a few yrs ago that was a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read for me. This book follows Eleanor and her family from the yrs 2010-2024. This book covers a lot of different topics and issues that happen in her personal relationships and also things going on in the wo......more

This was the sixth Maynard novel I read and loved. How the Lights Gets In is a sequel of Count the Ways, the narrator and protagonist is still the matriarch, Eleanor. Now in her fifties, she's back at the farm she had left after her divorce from the father of her three children. She set aside past an......more