The Provence Cure for the Brokenheart..., Bridget Asher
The Provence Cure for the Brokenheart..., Bridget Asher
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The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted

Author: Bridget Asher

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 11 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/29/2011


Synopsis

From the author of My Husbands Sweethearts and The Pretend Wife comes a moving novel about love and hope in the face of loss, in which a small house in the French countryside may be responsible for mending hearts since World War II.Brokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbot, her obsessivecompulsive eightyearold son, and Charlotte, her intolerably jaded sixteenyearold niece, to spend the summer repairing their family home in a small village in the south of France. There, thousands of miles from home, Charlotte makes a shocking confession, and Heidi learns the truth about her mothers lost summer when she was a child. As three generations collide with each other, the neighbor next doorwho seems to know all their family secretsand an enigmatic Frenchman, theyll journey through love, loss, and healing amid the lavender fields, warm winds, and pistou soup of Provence.

About Bridget Asher

Bridget Asher lives on the Florida panhandle with her husband, who is lovable, sweet, and true of heart—and who has given her no reason to inquire about his former sweethearts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sandra

This novel has been compared to Eat, Pray, Love, a memoir that I absolutely hated. Thankfully for The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted, this novel was everything that Eat, Pray, Love wasn't. It had characters that I cared about and a plot that actually moved. By the end of the book I wasn't happy......more

Goodreads review by Jodi

I know this book has gotten a lot of good reviews but it bordered on drivel. Part of that is because while I am the first to say that recovering from grief takes as long as it takes, you have to have some desire to stop wallowing in it, bathing it in, reveling in and defining yourself by it. And tha......more

Goodreads review by Deb

Heidi is brokenhearted and lost after the death of her husband and soul mate Henry in an auto accident. Her mother "sends" her to renovate and repair the broken down family house in a small village in Provence, along with her 7 year-old obsessive-compulsive son and her teenage niece, also suffering......more