I was in the mood to read something suitably summery and I found the perfect book in The Ashford Affair (#308), Lauren Willig's stand-alone family saga. Scandals and family secrets abound in this story of Clementine, a senior associate struggling to make partner at a prestigious New York law firm in 1999, who must face the fact that her beloved Granny Addie is dying. When challenged by another family member, Clemmie realizes that she actually knows next to nothing about Granny Addie except that she lived in Kenya at one time in her life. Determined to make up for lost time, Clemmie tries to sort through what she does know, but the discrepancies keep piling up...
The action in the book moves from the first decade of the twentieth century to the last in this multi-generational novel, from glittering London to Kenya to New York City, as the layers of secrets are gradually revealed. No one in Clemmie's family is who she believed them to be, or who she thought herself to be. But the truth, in the end, can be liberating.
A thoroughly satisfying shady hammock read, told with Ms. Willig's usual panache. Highly recommended!
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