The Goodbye Quilt

I started this book yesterday and finished it today, between screaming deadlines, so that explains how much I enjoyed it.

I don't cry with books. Movies, yes, books no.

Linda Howard and Barbara O'Neal are the only other authors to ever make me cry and I can now add the talented Susan Wiggs to the group.

I bawled.

She has an amazing gift for tapping into a reader's emotions, by giving her characters realistic motivations and situations we can all identify with.

Even though my kids are young, I could empathise with the heroine (who's escorting her daughter to college and saying goodbye) because every milestone in a child's life and their growing independence is a little goodbye in its own right.

Thoroughly enjoyed this and still thinking about it many hours after closing the book.