A Walk Along the Beach: A Novel

Audiobook Review: Overall – 5 Performance – 5 Story – 4 Have tissues handy. This was a different sort of book from what I’ve come to expect from Debbie Macomber. I don’t read too many of her books any more as they have gotten a bit too sweet for my tastes. This one deals with some pretty heavy stuff and there probably should be a trigger warning on it. cancer death I tried to read this book not long after I was granted a review copy from NetGalley but I just couldn’t get into it. I recently found that my library had a copy of the audiobook and decided to give that a try. My husband and I like to listen to audiobooks in the car and we listened to this one together. We both enjoyed I for the most part. I’d never listened to any books performed by Roger Wayne or Sandy Rustin. I enjoyed both performer’s voices, particularly Roger Wayne’s and I will look for more books that he’s performed. The book is about a family that is struggling. After the mother dies the father turns to alcohol and nearly destroys his relationship with his grown children – two daughters and one son. It’s also about the deep love and friendship between the two sisters. After their mother’s death, one sister fights a battle with leukemia and the father once again turns to alcohol while the other sister tries to hold the family together and run her own business. But not all of the story is depressing. There are light moments when one sister adopts a cat. And there are sweet moments between the other sister and her budding romantic interest. Thing go awry with their relationship for various reasons but they eventually get a satisfying HEA. A review copy was provided by the publisher via NetGalley but this did not influence my opinion or rating of the book.