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At Hatters Museum of the Wide Wide World, where the animals never age but time takes its toll, one woman must find the courage to overcome the greatest loss of her life.
Synopsis:
Four years after her husband Richard’s death, Cate Morris is let go from her teaching job and unable to pay rent on the London flat she shares with her son, Leo. With nowhere else to turn, they pack up and venture to Richard’s ancestral Victorian museum in the small town of Crouch-on-Sea.
Despite growing pains and a grouchy caretaker, Cate begins to fall in love with the quirky taxidermy exhibits and sprawling grounds, and she makes it her mission to revive them. But threats from both inside and outside the museum derail her plans and send her spiraling into self-doubt.
As Cate becomes more invested in Hatters, she must finally confront the reality of Richard’s death—and the role she played in it—in order to reimagine her future. Perfect for fans of Katherine Center and Evvie Drake Starts Over.
Review:
Are you looking for that 'feel good', can't put it down, book of Fall? Guess what? I found it for you! Be VERY prepared to not want to stop reading this charmer of a book, once you start it!
Anesty does an amazing job of bringing the reader into Cate's world and making her very sympathetic, yet intriguing. The reader wants to know why Cate has no one to lean on, friends to come round and help her, especially when you realize issues Cate tackles on a daily basis Add in a rush move to a house her husband refused to speak of, that has generations of allusions and lies keeping it together. As Cate and Leo take on the herculean project of bringing the museum back to life, she finds out more about herself than she thought she could. And Leo finds friends in the unlikeliest of places, that end of being their saviors.
This book will worm it way into your heart, and then when you realize it is based on a real-life museum, you'll be wanting to go see its counterpart, as soon as travel restrictions lift! Make this one your weekend read, and you'll be talking about it all week long!
About the Author
Anstey Harris teaches creative writing in Kent, England. Her short stories have been widely published in anthologies and online and she was the winner of the H.G. Wells Short Story Prize in 2015. Anstey lives in Kent, England, and is the mother of singer-songwriter Lucy Spraggan.
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