Many thanks to NetGalley and St Martin's Press for gifting me a digital ARC of the novel by Erika Montgomery - 4 stars for a wonderful debut!
Frankie owns a movie memorabilia shop in Hollywood that she opened with her now-deceased mother, Maeve. It was always just the two of them and Frankie is a bit lost without her mom. She receives a package with a photograph of her mom years ago with two movie stars at a Cape Cod film festival, along with two sealed letters. Frankie investigates and then tries to return the letters to their owners, but decides that a trip to Cape Cod might lead her to find out more about her mom and hopefully learn the identity of her father.
This is a wonderful story, told in both present time and in the past, about memories and collections and how they tie us to the past and the people we loved. It's also about loyalty and family, however that looks, and making our peace with the past. Each chapter opened with a movie quote which was one of my favorite things about this book - this is also a love letter to the impact that movies have on our lives. I thoroughly enjoyed this escape to Cape Cod and into the movies and am looking forward to more from this author.
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