Many thanks to NetGalley and Matcha Publishing for gifting me a digital ARC of this debut novel by Chelsea Cannon - 4 stars!
Margaret was 17 years old when William Hill asked her to marry him. She had planned on going to college to be a nurse but that wasn't her passion; reading and literature were but her family would never pay for an education to study those subjects. Margaret said yes to William and put the rest of her dreams in the past. Life was good as long as she fell into her role as housewife and mother to their two children, but Margaret never felt complete. When she had the chance to take a college course in literature, it changed her life in ways she never could have imagined and put her in a position of keeping secrets from her family. But secrets always come to light.
Full disclosure - I requested this book from NetGalley solely because it takes place in Saratoga Springs NY where I live - who doesn't love to read a book with such a familiar setting? I didn't have high expectations but was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to get lost in this book. In begins in the 1970s when women were still not as free to explore options other than marriage and babies, especially when that's all they ever knew. But denying your hopes and dreams is never a good plan and can only lead to heartache. I enjoyed watching Margaret mature and own her life.
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