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The Things We Knew by Catherine West 4 stars

Lynette Carlisle 24, is taking care of her father in their old family home, but he is not doing well and refuses to go back the the doctor. She is doing her best to help make ends meet, but is also having disturbing dreams about the night her mother died when she was 12. When her childhood friend and neighbour, Nick, returns she has no idea he knows about some of the darkness of the past, or that he finds he is still in love with her. Something needs to be done, and she has to consider the possibility of selling their old Nantucket home on the beach, but in order to do that her long gone older sister and brothers have to all come home; that much was stipulated in her mother's will.

While the writing wasn't as lyrical as some other books I've read, it was well done, and this book is not Christian fluff, but more of a meaty novel. There are plenty of not-so-pretty things going on in her family Lynette had no idea about as she is forced to deal with the past.