A review by nursenell
The Winter Lodge by Susan Wiggs

4.0

I liked this book. Jenny, who we met in the first book, as a teenager, is now an adult and has taken over the bakery her Polish immigrant grandparents founded 50 years before. She lives alone in her grandparent's house after their deaths. She still mourns for her mother, who disappeared when Jenny was 4 y.o. When her house burns to the ground, destroying everything she owns, including all her years of journals, she ends up having to reevaluate her life and finds herself temporarily staying with Rourke, not the chief of police. They have never resolved issues dating back to the summer when they were 17, and their other best friend was Joey. Jenny shows a great deal of growth in this book, and learns not to stuff all her feelings but instead to talk about them. Rourke is a caregiver and always will be but he too shows some growth and faces his hurts of the past.