Audiobook Review - Sunlight Finds You by Laura Moriarty

The month of August (and summer in general) are slipping away.  If you’re looking for one more summer read…this is the book!

What to expect:

▪️Forbidden love/Epic love/First love

▪️Coming of age

▪️Set in the 1950s Cold War era

▪️Up and coming St. Petersburg, FL

▪️Secrets & Betrayal 

▪️Decisions altering the trajectory of life

Richly layered and propulsive, it’s a book about extending forgiveness—for ourselves, and for others—and about refusing to settle for a life that is less than full.

4.5 stars - Really close to five stars, but the middle dragged a little for me.  But still worth noting that I binged this book!Overall, I really enjoyed this one and it comes with my recommendation!

Thank you @prhaudio for the gifted listening copy of Sunlight Finds you by Laura Moriarty narrated by Amanda Stribling.  This is an August @readwithjenna pick!

It’s 1949, early in the Cold War, but St. Petersburg, Florida is warm, lush, and booming with newcomers seeking sunshine and opportunity. For seventeen-year-old Nora, St. Pete feels like paradise, especially after she meets and wins over Leonard, the shy, brilliant son of transplanted New Yorkers. Nora and Leonard are soon spending balmy days and evenings together, and in her adoring, encouraging company, he grows more confident, even as he remains tender and caring. Leonard's sophisticated mother welcomes Nora into their lives, but his father distrusts her motives.

When his suspicions are seemingly confirmed, Nora is forced to cut contact. In her longing and fear, she takes a chance that changes her life, exiling her from the family she loves and setting off a chain of secrets and betrayals that will follow her into adulthood. It is a mature Nora who tells the story of her turbulent past. Wiser and more worldly, she commits to an honest but compassionate account, and to a future based on trusting, first and foremost, herself.