Melanie runs away. From conflict. From pain. From reality. When novelist Melanie Vander faces a looming deadline, she decides it’s time for an escape to an inspiring, novel-worthy locale. She’s not running away. Really. She just needs time to focus. But as she disappears into her writing, she encounters a man whose tenderness leaves her reeling. Engaging and wise, psychologist Elliot Hammond … psychologist Elliot Hammond tempts Melanie to question everything, including her marriage.
But that’s ridiculous. Dr. Hammond isn’t even…real.
Melanie’s husband, Craig, has his own problems, including a recession that’s threatening his business. Waning finances, a looming home foreclosure, and a wife who’s checked out emotionally, has Craig feeling as though he’s carrying his burdens alone. When his client, the beautiful and single Serena Buchanan, offers him a solution to his financial woes, he’s tempted by more than her offer of a business solution.
At a crossroads, Melanie and Craig seem headed in opposite directions.
As Melanie runs away from her problems by escaping into her own fictional world, Craig dives into his struggles, seeking God for strength and healing for his marriage. Ultimately, Melanie must choose whether she’ll check out completely, or allow her characters to lead her home.
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Well written. Addresses real-life issues .
I love that this book showed deep love between couples without having to even insinuate sexual intimacy. Some “Christian” books try to hint at it without going too far; this book was about real relationships.
Home, by author Ginny Yttrup is one of the best faith based fiction books I have read recently. The plot is not preachy, but is enlightening in regard to human emotions, personal fears, and the recovery of ones faith. The characters feel a loss within themselves for various reasons in their past. This book weaves the love, longing, joys, disappointments, and misunderstandings between Melanie and Craig within the scenes and pages. They are a married couple who are a bit disillusioned in their lives, but do not talk about the issues together. Craig is a professional builder and contractor trying to adjust to a depressed economy and Melanie is a writer who is needing to meet her deadline for her sixteenth book, and she has writers’ block. It is a story of human emotion and dealing with different forms and experiences of grief. There are many emotional levels to this story. The Neighbor, Jill, and new friend, Valerie, are also integral to the story. I had to smile as I read about Melanie’s Book character, Chloe. Reading the excerpts to the book as Melanie writes is a wonderful element to this whole story. The quotes at the heading of each chapter are very inspiring. I plan to read HOME again and you know what that means….the author was very successful in writing a book worth reading more than once!
Great Book, Ginny Yttrup!