8. In the last chapter, Kate says: “We spend our lives saying hello, we spend our lives loving, and we spend our lives saying goodbye. It is the way it is. To refuse to acknowledge this is to miss out on all the beauty and wonder of life.” What do you think she means by this? Have you also found this to be true?
9. Which character did you relate to the most? How about the least?
10. Where do you Lara ten years after the book ends? Kate? Claire?
Susan Meissner is a multi-published author, speaker and writing workshop leader with a background in community journalism. Her novels include A Fall of Marigolds, named by BookList’s Top Ten women’s fiction titles for 2014, and The Shape of Mercy, named by Publishers Weekly as one of the 100 Best Novels of 2008.
She is a pastor’s wife and a mother of four young adults. When she's not writing novels, Susan prepares small group curriculum for her San Diego church. Visit Susan at her website www.susanmeissner.com on Twitter at @SusanMeissner or at www.facebook.com/susan.meissner
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Books in print and in e-book
Penguin
Secrets of A Charmed Life
WaterBrook Press (a division of Random House)
The Shape of Mercy
White Picket Fences
Lady in Waiting
A Sound among the Trees
The Girl in the Glass