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A review by ymjarrell
The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis
5.0
If I’m being honest, the cover for this book grabbed my attention as soon as I laid eyes on it. When I read the title I instantly knew this was a book for me. I’m a sucker for a happy ending especially with a little magic is added in.
The story is set between multiple timelines, 1940’s in Nazi occupied Paris during WWII, Boston in 1976 and 1985. The chapters go back and forth between timelines and characters but it’s easy to keep up with. We follow the story of two women dealing with traumatic loses and gut wrenching heartbreak. There is an unknown connection between them. Have your tissues ready!
Soline is living in France in 1939 working with her mother in her dress shop creating beautiful “happy ending” wedding dresses. Her mother and grandmother had the power to predict happy marriages. Her mother was known as “The Dress Witch”. She used family spells and magic to sew happiness into each custom wedding dress, guaranteeing a happy ending in marriage and a life of joy. Soline has dreams of her own, wanting to make her own designs but before those dreams could unfold the Nazis arrive and everything changes. Fate would have it that she meets Anson, an American while volunteering at the American Hospital. She flees Paris and goes to Boston and opens up a shop making dresses.
In 1985, we find Rory is struggling to make it through each day. She has stopped moving forward in life, holding her breathe for news of her fiancé, whose been kidnapped while working with Doctors Without Borders. Not knowing if she will ever see him again, she awaits his return. One afternoon she walks down a familiar street but this time she gets a feeling when she passes one of the buildings. She can’t shake the feeling and decides to find out more about the building. She feels the familiar pull in her of an old dream to open up an art gallery. The building would be perfect for an art gallery. While repairing the building that used to be Roussel’s Magical Dress Shop, she discovers a box containing a wedding dress and old letters. She must find Soline and return them to her.
Some families of wealth will go to extremes to hide their secrets, protect their image. How one persons lie could effect so many and change the course of their lives. But where there is love and compassion - hope resides. Love has the power to restore.
The Keeper of Happy Endings is the perfect book for those starry eyed souls who believe in happy endings. I was captivated by their stories and enjoyed the historical moments. Soline and Rory are unlikely friends whose friendship defines cultural and generational differences. Their bond is beautiful.
The story is set between multiple timelines, 1940’s in Nazi occupied Paris during WWII, Boston in 1976 and 1985. The chapters go back and forth between timelines and characters but it’s easy to keep up with. We follow the story of two women dealing with traumatic loses and gut wrenching heartbreak. There is an unknown connection between them. Have your tissues ready!
Soline is living in France in 1939 working with her mother in her dress shop creating beautiful “happy ending” wedding dresses. Her mother and grandmother had the power to predict happy marriages. Her mother was known as “The Dress Witch”. She used family spells and magic to sew happiness into each custom wedding dress, guaranteeing a happy ending in marriage and a life of joy. Soline has dreams of her own, wanting to make her own designs but before those dreams could unfold the Nazis arrive and everything changes. Fate would have it that she meets Anson, an American while volunteering at the American Hospital. She flees Paris and goes to Boston and opens up a shop making dresses.
In 1985, we find Rory is struggling to make it through each day. She has stopped moving forward in life, holding her breathe for news of her fiancé, whose been kidnapped while working with Doctors Without Borders. Not knowing if she will ever see him again, she awaits his return. One afternoon she walks down a familiar street but this time she gets a feeling when she passes one of the buildings. She can’t shake the feeling and decides to find out more about the building. She feels the familiar pull in her of an old dream to open up an art gallery. The building would be perfect for an art gallery. While repairing the building that used to be Roussel’s Magical Dress Shop, she discovers a box containing a wedding dress and old letters. She must find Soline and return them to her.
Some families of wealth will go to extremes to hide their secrets, protect their image. How one persons lie could effect so many and change the course of their lives. But where there is love and compassion - hope resides. Love has the power to restore.
The Keeper of Happy Endings is the perfect book for those starry eyed souls who believe in happy endings. I was captivated by their stories and enjoyed the historical moments. Soline and Rory are unlikely friends whose friendship defines cultural and generational differences. Their bond is beautiful.