I loved this story. It was so heartwarming and you couldn’t help but fall in love with the characters. I love the message that family isn’t always who you are blood related to. Sometimes family is those you choose.

Happy Kindle Edition Pub Day to A Month of Summer by Lisa Wingate. This book first published in July of 2008. Thanks so much NetGalley for the new edition to read.
Rebecca receives a call from the Dallas Police that they found her step brother Teddy roaming the streets, her estranged father was home alone, and the home was a wreck. Where was her father’s wife? Hanna Beth has suffered a stoke and was in a nursing facility. Rebecca makes plans with her husband, secures child care plans for her daughter and catches a flight back home to Dallas. Only to be side tracked when she sees her husband having lunch holding hands with a woman at an outside cafe as she prepares to leave town. This book is beautifully written as it bounces back from Rebecca’s point of view and what is going on inside her Step Mother, Hanna Beth’s mind as she watches from the outside to see Rebecca try to put all their lives back together again. So many themes are captured within the Internal struggle Rebecca faces as she goes back to her childhood home. Wingate did an incredible job with character development. The nursing staff, and my personal favorite Claude another patient in the nursing facility. Check this one out you will fall in love with these characters.

First, thanks to #NetGalley for the opportunity to read an e-galley of this book.

I enjoyed this book so much, I stayed up far too late into the night reading because I couldn't put it down, and i woke in the morning thinking of it, wanting to pick it back up, but had to wait until I got all my work done!

I also read Before We Were Yours, and thoroughly enjoyed it as well, so am happy to have been given the opportunity to read another book by Lisa Wingate!

When Rebecca was 12, her parents divorced. She met her step mother, and step brother with special needs, and decided she didn't need to be in their lives. They were moving in to her house and making a life with her dad and she wanted no part of it. The court ruled she was to go for a month every summer, but she swore she would never go back, and she didn't. What hurt more was that he dad didn't fight for her to go.

Now, 30 years later, she has been contacted to come care for her father. Her dad has Alzheimer's, her step brother is mentally childlike and can't help, and her step mother has had a stroke and is in a care facility.

Watch (read) as Rebecca's walls come down.
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Very sweet story set in Texas. Heartfelt and full of the love of family--and those you might not have chosen to be your family but who end up that way. Subtle spiritual content make this book approachable for all readers.

If you’re looking for a emotional and gripping novel with great characters, pick this one up!
This is a book about love, hope but also regret for all the time that has passed, without love.

For Rebecca Macklin, an ordinary summer brings about an extraordinary change of heart when she discovers that her aging father has been wandering the Dallas streets alone, and his wife, Hanna Beth, has landed in a nursing home. Now Rebecca must put aside old resentments and return to her childhood home.

The plot is character driven and they’re very developed. You can follow Rebecca and Hannah Beth in their minds and understand what they’re thinking.
For me personally, this book hit close to home because my father had a large stroke a few years ago and I cried a lot when reading, probably cause my memories came back from that time in my life.

There’s only one thing I wish was a bit different and that’s sometimes there are a lot of details I could be without. It slowed down the pace. Otherwise, a great book!

I would recommend it to people who likes comtemporary fiction with emotional content. I also think people who are drawn to books that don’t have any bad words, sexual content and some religion in it, will love it.

The publishers kindly provided me with a free copy through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I simply cannot adequately put into words how this book touched me. Lisa Wingate’s A Month of Summer is relatable in its themes. What is joy? How can you find it when your world seems to be crashing down around you. You look outside of yourself, of course.
I enjoyed the narration of both Rebecca and Hannah Beth, and absolutely fell in love with Teddy. We all have a lot to learn from Teddy!

Another fantastic Lisa wingate read!
Rebecca is a career given woman. Always on the move ! Until she gets a call her dad ( Alzheimer’s) is found wandering the streets
Rebecca must return to Dallas to help her dad and her stepmother., someone she has never seen eye to eye with !
A great read of love , understanding and family

A Month of Summer by Lisa Wingate tells the story of Rebecca Macklin's return her childhood to face her father, step mother and step brother for the first time in thirty years. I enjoy Wingate's style of writing and this is the second book I have read from her. The story was enjoyable to read and I particularly liked how the story was told from three different view points. I don't really understand the name of the book though as the story as little to do with summer? I think that this just a marketing ploy.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for this ARC.