You are invited to the rest of your life.Three women, from coast to coast and in between, open their mailboxes to the same intriguing invitation. Although leading entirely different lives, each has found herself at a similar, jarring crossroads. Right when these women thought they’d be comfortably settling into middle age, their carefully curated futures have turned out to be dead ends.The sender … dead ends.
The sender of the invitation is Willa Silvester, who is reeling from the untimely death of her beloved husband and the reality that she must say goodbye to the small mountain town they founded together. Yet as Willa mourns her losses, an impossible question keeps staring her in the face: So now what?
Struggling to find the answer alone, fiercely independent Willa eventually calls a childhood friend who happens to be in her own world of hurt—and that’s where the idea sparks. They decide to host a weeklong interlude from life, and invite two other friends facing their own quandaries. Soon the four women converge at Willa’s Montana homestead, a place where they can learn from nature and one another as they contemplate their second acts together in the rugged wilderness of big sky country.
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Once you read WILLA’S GROVE by Laura Munson, you’ll want to pack your bags and head to Montana. This book has that “just one more page, one more chapter,” appeal. And oh, the prose! Brilliantly written, the realistic characters hooked me from the first page.
this was for me an extremely long involving women I couldn’t relate to. the descriptions of the country were beautifully written.
I didn’t want it to end. Great characters, but my favorite was Willa herself. Wonderful conversations among the four women!
just the right amount of ingenuity and community and people-mixing made a good story.
I gave up after reading the first 2 chapters. Boring, redundant.
Heartwarming and authentic! Truth about women’s lives.
Enjoyed the characters, their stories and the location.
I totally enjoyed this book and recommended it to many of my female friends.
Was a great book about the dynamics of female friends, touching and realistic about the loss of a spouse. Every female should be so lucky to have the support of this group of friends.
Intriguing and thought provoking about what’s next and the rest of my life. I enjoyed it.
a bit tedious and overwrought
Would have been better without all of the swearing. .
A different look at small towns, and the people we thought we knew.
This made me want to go to the Inn with three girlfriends for a magical week like these ladies had. I didn’t want to put it down, and I especially did not want it to
end! Love it!
Slow to start. Easy to abandon.
slow moving @ times but great character development
So glad I happened upon this book, I even gifted it to my best friend!
Such good ideas, interesting structure, but very talky— would women really be this verbose? Still, enjoyable.
Did not want this book to end!
Too many italics! This could have been a book that shared the ways women come together for comfort. Instead the impact of the characters’ conversation was buried under the weight of the author’s need to make sure we got the right emphasis in the right places.
Exhausting.