Once in a while, a book comes along and everything about it is just right. Like a blitzkrieg, it holds your attention and your heart; you want to get to the last page as fast as you can because you want to know what happened. And when you’re finally there, you don’t want it to end because the characters have captured your imagination.
That’s what I felt when I was reading “Hello From the Gillespies
And this Christmas letter is the crux of the story; everything that happened and was happening revolved around this letter. We see Angela and her family at their best; we also see them at their worst. We also see them take “Hello From the Gillespies
A beautiful story with well-written characters, “Hello From the Gillespies
The book is Rated M for Mature due to adult situations. There are no sex scenes in the book except for those that are implied.
For the past thirty-three years, Angela Gillespie has sent to friends and family around the world an end-of-the-year letter titled Hello from the Gillespies.” It’s always been cheery and full of good news. This year, Angela surprises herselfshe tells the truth….
The Gillespies are far from the perfect family that Angela has made them out to be. Her husband is coping badly with retirement. Her thirty-two-year-old twins are having career meltdowns. Her third daughter, badly in debt, can’t stop crying. And her ten-year-old son spends more time talking to his imaginary friend than to real ones.
Without Angela, the family would fall apart. But when Angela is taken away from them in a most unexpected manner, the Gillespies pull together and pull themselves together in wonderfully surprising ways
