It is a romance and although there are a few twists, there are no huge surprises in the way things work out, but it is a lovely journey along the way. Family Tree is sweet, but not cloyingly so, a nice mix of romantic and family love, characters getting a second chance, growth, and finding yourself and what you want in life. I don't know if the author's other books involve food but Wiggs writes it well-many of her descriptions of the food made my mouth water and the behind the scenes look at the cooking show and at the maple farm were interesting and drew me in. My favorite parts were of Annie in the kitchen and her memories with her grandmother. Annie's story is told in alternating present day and flashbacks, covering her relationships with her family, her husband, and especially her first love Fletcher Wyndham. After waking from a year-long coma, Annie is initially missing many of her memories and needs to rebuild her mind, her body, her spirit and her life, so she recuperates back at her family's home and maple syrup farm in Vermont. Family Tree is about Annie, who seems to be living her dream life until an accident takes it all away. This is my first Susan Wiggs book ( surprising since she has 50+ of them) but I don't think it will be my last. Family Tree is that kind of novel, the food is part of the supporting cast-adding to the pleasure of the story but, not overwhelming the other themes. I love a good foodie novel, where the food is a part of the story-fully present and enticing, but not taking away from the the rest of the book. Publisher: William Morrow (August 9, 2016) Complex,Ĭlear-eyed and big-hearted, funny, sad, and wise, it is a novel to Story of joys unrealized and opportunities regained. Mystery that might prove the salvation of the family farm.įamily Tree is the story of one woman’s triumph overīetrayal, and how she eventually comes to terms with her past. Her grandmother wrote in the distant past, Annie unearths an age-old Her free-spirited brother, their divorced mother, and four young niecesĪnd nephews, Annie slowly emerges into a world she left behind yearsĪgo: the town where she grew up, the people she knew before, the Switchback, Vermont, a maple farm generations old. Grieving and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in When Annie awakes from a yearlong coma, she discovers that time isn’t

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