Their husbands were gone, their families were grown, and the future stretched out before them like an unfulfilled promise… Tired of always dreaming and never doing, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget make a life-altering decision. Uprooting themselves from their comfortable lives in the suburbs, the three friends buy a run-down mansion, nestled in the picturesque Shenandoah Valley. They christen their … They christen their new home “Ladybug Farm,” hoping that the name will bring them luck.
As the friends take on a home improvement challenge of epic proportions, they encounter disaster after disaster, from renegade sheep and garden thieves to a seemingly ghostly inhabitant. Over the course of a year, overwhelming obstacles make the three women question their decision, but they ultimately learn that sometimes the best things can happen when everything goes wrong…
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After page one I could not put it down. I could see myself living and going through this fun adventure with the characters. Great Read! Can’t wait to read the next one in the series.
I am in love with the Ladybug Farm and the delightful ladies that have made it their home! Of course, the fact that ladybug was in the title of the book drew me in immediately. I’m such a ladybug fan. And then to read that the ladybugs were everywhere made me want to pack up my bags and move to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
The three ladies who end up on Ladybug Farm are each very different and have different gifts. Which makes them perfect friends and roommates. They each bring their varying abilities and personalities into this newly formed situation. And, of course, it is not without its struggles. New adventures are waiting around every corner and something is always happening. Such quirky people in the town but also people who make a small town friendly and welcoming. It is amazing to see how they rally around each other when someone is in need.
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll gasp. You’ll get sucked into the lives of Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget. And you’ll come out richer for sharing the year on Ladybug Farms with them! Can’t wait to get my copy of the second book in this series (At Home on Ladybug Farm).
This would make a great Hallmark movie! It’s a feel good book with very real life characters and daily experiences that are both funny and heartfelt.
I liked it. It was sweet.
This was a good story about remaking your life. It was confusing when the story would describe all they accomplished in such a short period of time.As when they moved & prepared for extravagant parties at the same time. I found myself skimming over those parts as unrealistic.
If you enjoy great reads, you have to read A Year on Ladybug Farm! I loved it — the characters, the circumstances that they put themselves in and all of the surprises that surrounded them — the good, the bad and the «Oh my God, not again!» ones.
I laughed, I wept, I rejoiced and cringed all through the The Ladybug Farm, but I was always eager to pick it up and read whenever I had the chance.
Characters so real they could be my personal friends, career women, all but one who worked minimally at the library, dashed hopes for the promised lives when the kids were finally on their own and husbands began to slow down their careers and refocus on their mates — at least that’s what they’re scripted to do, but that’s one fiction of married life for these three ladies, two divorced and one recently widowed.
But what they create together works and sometimes it doesn’t, but that’s when these women each and together become their strongest ever in their fifties, taking on the surprises that a 100 year old rundown farm delivers regularly, handling them, from sheep they didn’t know they owned to a young high school drop-out boy with a drunk and abusive father, who insists he doesn’t need «nothin’» but will work for them occasionally.
If a Year on Ladybug Farm doesn’t delight you, then you must have breezed over something critical to the story and simply, you need to read it again! As for me, it’s a keeper.
wonderful read!!
Loved the characters in this book and their can-do spirit. Great story of creating new adventures instead of doing the expected. They were courageous, tenacious and yet vulnerable. Go Ladybug Farm!!
Very enjoyable read.
What a great read! A group of women of a certain age, band together and through the trials and tribulations succeed with their farm. Funny times, great friends and a little romance. Age does not have to slow one down. Age does not keep us from laughing, working, and changing. And these women, with friends and gumption learn a whole new life.
I’m tired of books that either have characters who just live in the past, or only think of romance. There’s a whole world out there for people (of a certain age) and participating in it is uplifting.
The series is fun, and different. I really enjoyed it.
Lacked literary style and plot development. Predictable.
Determination pays off! When these women made up their minds to tackle this project, there was no stopping them in spite of all sorts of delays, disappointments, mishaps, and near-disasters. Very fun to read, wonderful story of women “of a certain age” who move ahead even when their children think they are crazy.
I read it in one day and enjoyed it immensely. I even laughed out loud. As a ‘woman of a certain age’ I could relate to so much. This is my kind of book—right up there with Five French Hens
Loved this book! Loved all the Ladybug Farm books! A spirited group of ladies pulling together, purchasing a large fixer-upper in Virginia’s Blue Ridge, meeting neighbors, settling into community, exercising their talents, expanding their property’s growth potential, and gathering at the end of each afternoon with a glass of wine. What a lovely and inspiring story!
It’s been several years since I read this book. Time to re-read! I loved the characters, how they interacted and cared about each other.
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll cheer for these women! If you need an escape, this is your series! Book 1 of a delightful 7-book series (all of which I’ve read), can be read as a stand alone. It’s brimming with the close friendships, new beginnings, changes, challenges and pitfalls as three, 50+, best friends embark on a new life together as owners of a broken down mansion in the gorgeous Shenandoah Valley and make it their own. A beautiful but challenging time as Cici, Bridget and Lindsay come together to make their lives whole again with this passionate project they’ve taken on. The pages are filled with inspiration, humor and heartache….one you won’t want to put down. The narrative is easy going and light but still has substance and the characters are more than believable.
Once you crack the cover, you won’t know what day it is until you’ve finished reading.
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