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The First Day of the Rest of My Life
by Cathy Lamb
Cathy Lamb does it again. She takes a hard life topic and enables the reader to get through it with laughter as well as tears. She takes wounded characters and gives them life and makes them real. I don't know how she does it but she does it BRILLIANTLY.
This newest novel from Lamb is no exception to her abilities to craft a good read. She takes a broken, wounded woman (and her family) and takes us on a jounrey of healing. Lest you think these journey's are dull and depressing think again. Lamb always manages to infuse the seriousness of the topics with warmth, laughter, and lessons - and always a few tears. If someone doesn't cry at the descriptions of pain that her characters have to work through then I question if that person has a soul or a conscience.
I loved this newest offering. Madeline is a successful life coach who can dish out the life counsel but can't live it due to horrific childhood circumstances. But it begins to catch up with her and she is faced with coming clean or continuing to hide. As a life coach she knows coming clean is the best thing to do but it's a lot harder than she has the energy or strenth, so she thinks, for. What Madeline and her sister are about to find out is they do have the strength to live their lives well and let the past quit dictating their futures.
Lamb tackles a tough topic in this book, one I don't believe she has yet to tackle. So a reader warning is this: the topic is covered to a degree that will cause some readers to connect because of their own stories. If you have been abused as a child or are the parent of a child who has been abused then this book will be harder to read. It's hard enough for someone who hasn't had personal experience with child abuse. But it is a good read and Lamb is sensitive to the topic and it's wounds.
This newest novel from Lamb is no exception to her abilities to craft a good read. She takes a broken, wounded woman (and her family) and takes us on a jounrey of healing. Lest you think these journey's are dull and depressing think again. Lamb always manages to infuse the seriousness of the topics with warmth, laughter, and lessons - and always a few tears. If someone doesn't cry at the descriptions of pain that her characters have to work through then I question if that person has a soul or a conscience.
I loved this newest offering. Madeline is a successful life coach who can dish out the life counsel but can't live it due to horrific childhood circumstances. But it begins to catch up with her and she is faced with coming clean or continuing to hide. As a life coach she knows coming clean is the best thing to do but it's a lot harder than she has the energy or strenth, so she thinks, for. What Madeline and her sister are about to find out is they do have the strength to live their lives well and let the past quit dictating their futures.
Lamb tackles a tough topic in this book, one I don't believe she has yet to tackle. So a reader warning is this: the topic is covered to a degree that will cause some readers to connect because of their own stories. If you have been abused as a child or are the parent of a child who has been abused then this book will be harder to read. It's hard enough for someone who hasn't had personal experience with child abuse. But it is a good read and Lamb is sensitive to the topic and it's wounds.