I loved this book but Dorothea Benton Frank is one of my favorite authors so I may be a little prejudiced. Grace and Michael are a couple who seem made for each other, but have a few areas in their relationship that might create stumbling blocks. Grace is from a tight-knit, nutty and loud, Italian Catholic family while Michael is Irish, a scientist doing stem-cell research and has a mother dying of Alzheimer's. Grace is a travel agent who travels all over the world for a high clientele agency.

Ms. Frank creates characters who are full of life, witty, occasionally talking to themselves and even answering themselves. Her books are always based in the low country area of South Carolina, this one centered in the Hilton Head/Charleston areas. The story touches on complex family relationships, faith, human emotions but mostly love. This book now belongs in my list of favorites.