The author Barbara O’Neal is widely known for her romantic novels. However, she has earned a good name for herself in fictional genre as well. How to Bake a Perfect Life and When We Believed in Mermaids are a couple of spectacular novels written by Barbara.
When mother of Olivia Shaw died, the urbane food editor came to know about an astonishing discovery. She find out that her mother actually had inherited an English estate that is centuries old. There was something more to go with it as well. She was raw with the grief of the loss and was reeling from the information that her mother kept secretive for a long period of time. Olivia started her journey from San Francisco and went through the pond in order to unravel this momentous mystery.
Just a single glance at the Rosemary Priory was enough for Olivia to understand that why the manor was in despair. The manor was actually the subject of the exquisite paintings that her mother had done. The one thing that she never understand is that why her mother never revealed this place to her. She started to dig in deep into the past of her mother’s life. Soon she discovered that the debris-laden halls, peeling wallpapers and the ceiling high Elizabeth windows hide some massive secrets.
Although, her personal issues and things back home beckon, but she finds herself falling in love with the English village. The love also extended for the residents there. But, she had to unravel the secrets from past before she could decide about Rosemere and what her own future has got ahead for her.
The narration of this chapter is beautifully done by Stina Nielsen. She with her superb voice made the audiobook a great experience for the book lovers.
