REVIEW: Now That You Mention It by Kristan Higgins

One step forward. Two steps back. The Tufts scholarship that put Nora Stuart on the path to becoming a Boston medical specialist was a step forward. Being hit by a car and then overhearing her boyfriend hit on another doctor when she thought she was dying? Two major steps back.

Injured in more ways than one, Nora feels her carefully built life cracking at the edges. There's only one place to land: home. But the tiny Maine community she left fifteen years ago doesn't necessarily want her. At every turn, someone holds the prodigal daughter of Scupper Island responsible for small-town drama and big-time disappointments.

With a tough islander mother who's always been distant and a wild-child sister in jail, unable to raise her daughter--a withdrawn teen as eager to ditch the island as Nora once was--Nora has her work cut out for her if she's going to take what might be her last chance to mend the family.

But as some relationships crumble around her, others unexpectedly strengthen. Balancing loss and opportunity, a dark event from her past with hope for the future, Nora will discover that tackling old pain makes room for promise...and the chance to begin again.

Julie's Review 
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That was an interesting read.

I thought Nora was a bit of a wet blanket, a Debby Downer but after getting more of her backstory she certainly grew on me.

She was a ballsy person, who had dealt with her fair share of crap, but it made her stronger.

Bobby, what a prize git! he was hiding a lot of insecurity issues, I am glad Gloria finally exposed him.

Poor Nora, being hit by the Bug killer truck and then listening to her boyfriend hitting on another doctor. Having a near-death experience makes a person re-evaluate their life.

Her new life, back at home with her mom, to re-hash her teenage years, that was tough but she got a lot more than she bargained for, she discovered a lot of things.

Why her sister stopped communicating, why her father left, how she won the scholarship.

I liked that Nora found love, and experienced living after a number of life-changing experiences.

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