The Book of Polly by Kathy Hepinstall narrated by Jenna
Lamia
I loved this book…I loved all the characters and wish the
book hadn’t ended!
I honestly fell in love with Polly and her daughter Willow
these two had me laughing and crying both are such fantastic characters and I
do mean characters. When we first meet
Polly she has a falcon on her shoulder during a school meeting, I loved the
during this meeting there is a line that Willow says,
“I was in fact a liar, I had told some lies and even worse some truths about my mother to my classmates, in my defense she was great fodder and this was years before she killed our neighbor.”
How can anyone resist that line? I had to know more about
Polly and so does Willow. Willow is a late in life child and her father died
before she was born so it was pretty much Polly and Willow against the world, yes,
she had older siblings but they were older and out of the house already. We do
meet them and I loved her brother Shel her sister is kind of an odd duck but
that is to be expected. I really enjoyed
the scenes with Shel and the resolution of this storyline was very fulfilling.
Willow understands her mother is older than most of the kids
but she worries most about her mother getting THE BEAR which in Polly’s world
is cancer and this does make Willow a little anxious about Polly. Also Willow
is really curious about Polly’s younger years all she knows is her mother has
never gone back to her hometown and that something awful happened there and
Willow is bound and determined to find out, just as determined as Polly is to
keep her secrets.
Jenna Lamia’s narration was fabulous she was perfect as
Willow and she also got to do some other fun voices like the Preacher at the
end oh my that was great narration. Fabulous job.
Fans of CeeCee (Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman) Starla (Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan
Crandall) or Swan ( The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield) will love
this book as much as I did. Southern fiction, funny and oh the feels.
5 Stars
