Memories of the Lost --Barbara O'Neal

 ASIN: B0CQ8AQZJ16

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (July 30,2024)

Language: English

Also available in print

Sibling Fiction/Friendship Fiction/Sisters Fiction

5 Stars

 

Every Barbara O’Neal book I read is better than the one I read before. It’s been a long time since I’ve read the late Maeve Binchy so my comparison may be way off base, but in my mind, O’Neal is Binchy reincarnated. At least, I enjoy O’Neal’s books as much as I did Binchy’s.

 

This story, about a young lady, an artist, Tillie Morrisey who was a single child to her single mom, discovers, once her mother dies, and she’s cleaning out Mom’s house her own death certificate as a young child. 

 

As if that’s not bad enough, just a few days prior, she goes to an art gallery to support her best friend who has his first showing, and while there all but falls into a painting by an unknown artist and is helped by a handsome stranger. 

 

So, we have a mystery, several mysteries. Why did Tillie find her death certificate? She was very much alive and had not been in a fire when she was a child. At least, she didn’t remember it. Who is the handsome Aussie who has entered her life? When she contacts the artist who painted the picture she tried to fall into, she finds out it’s in England.

 

Busy, getting paintings finished and together for her up-coming show, she finds she is getting lost in her paintings and when she returns, she has no memory of painting the changes, but those who have seen them think they might be her best yet.

 

She decides to take a few days to visit England, see if she can find the house in the original painting and instead, she finds the most marvelous answers to all of her mysteries. It’s so nice to read a HEA book where no one dies, where no one resorts to violence. And I really do enjoy a good story, and a Happy Ever After ending.