When Lyn Hudson takes early retirement, her plan is to fulfil a lifelong dream to travel the world. But news of her father’s death forces her back to Granite Springs; the town she fled when she was eighteen. While she has fond memories of roaming the paddocks with her childhood friend, Ken, life on the land was definitely not for her.
Ken Thompson, cheated out of his inheritance in the family … family property after an argument with his father, has built up a successful business in Granite Springs as a realter and stock and station agent. When the son he intended to inherit his business returns to work on the family property, his plans for the future are shattered and family relations further strained.
Thrown together by circumstances, the pair discover the spark which they denied forty-five years earlier is still smouldering. But time has passed. They are different people.
Is it possible they’ll find common ground and start afresh, or will Lyn once again follow her dreams and abandon Granite Springs and their chance at happiness?
The Life She finds is the fourth book in the Granite Springs series set in a small Australian country town.
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Life after retirement: exotic thrills or no place like home So true to life
I love author Maggie Christensen’s novels about mature women finding a later in life chance at love. Her heroines are real women with realistic problems, often locked into major issues involving their grown children and exes; in this story she takes on an issue close to my heart.
Lyn finds her elderly parents take center stage just as she retires and prepares for a life of travel and leisure. Lyn has to confront their frailty and mortality, and her guilt at leaving them to their own devices in small town Granite Springs for so long as she pursued a career and married life in Brisbane. I could totally relate to Lyn’s regret, fears and need to make up for the past.
I also really connected with Ken Thompson, the male lead who has faced so many disappointments in his life since Lynn left him behind 45 years before after a childhood of friendship and growing affection. He’s hopeful, helpful and ready to see where a second chance with Lyn might take them.
I’ve read every book in the Granite Springs series and eagerly await each new release. There’s a building community of 50 plus-age characters who mingle and support each other that is appealing, even when some of the women seem a bit too aggressively intent on matchmaking. It’s a world I love to visit.
I loved this visit back to Granite Springs, MS Christensen knows how to pull a reader into her stories these characters are so real they are becoming friends, and this time we meet up with Lyn Hudson and Ken Thomson both grew up in Granite Springs but Lyn left as soon as school finished and Ken stayed, can they finally find the love that they deserve?
Lyn has taken early retirement and is planning to travel she is divorced and her daughter is grown with children of her own, but when her father dies she goes back to home to her mother and the town she left so many years before life on the land was never going to be for Lyn. She runs into her old friend and neighbour Ken and with a series of events change Lyn’s plans and Ken is there as support and a friend but there is also growing feelings can she change her life around to find happiness.
Ken Thompson loved being on the farm and he had planned to be there forever with a wife and have a family but when things change and he loses the farm he moves into town and becomes a realtor marries and has a son, divorced now he leads a quiet life. When he runs in Lyn his school sweetheart the girl he thought he would be with arrives in town it is not long before he is helping her out and enjoying some lovely time with her and those feelings from years ago are building, it is time for a new life.
Love is there for everyone to have, no matter your age and Lyn and Ken find the happiness and love that they deserve, I am loving this series and catching up with friends is always good. I cannot highly recommend this book and series enough MS Christensen is a wonderful story teller her older heroes and heroines are so good, thank you for another fabulous story I loved it.
Having read several of this Maggie Christensen’s books (although none of the previous ones in the Granite Springs series), I knew that I would be in for a heartwarming story about friends and families. Sure enough! In The Life She Finds, fourth in a series, I enjoyed reading about Lyn, recently retired and ready to take on a long awaited world tour. Yet, life happens, and she is drawn back to the town she left as a teen, a town that held no future for her. What would it hold for her now as she cares for an aging mother and reconnects with old friends, well-meaning but often meddling! The author writes well and draws the reader right into the scenes of life in this Australian town. The characters are likable and relatable. I especially liked Ken, who realizes he still loves Lyn, even after all these years and is willing to work to reignite the spark that had glowed in their teenage years. But would Lyn recognize and grasp the second chance at love that she’s been given or go back to the big city life where she belonged? The author keeps romantic tension high with twists and turns to the plot. One especially was for me a ‘wow, I didn’t see that coming’ moment! Christensen isn’t afraid to tackle difficult subjects such as grief, and guilt and bitterness. In The Life She Finds she, again, gives her readers older, more mature figures who find that second chances do come around and it brings a sense of hope and expectancy. It is a good story of family, friends, and love the second time around.
I received a complimentary copy of the book and was not required to write a review. The opinions are my own.