cover image Finding the Rainbow

Finding the Rainbow

Traci Borum. Red Adept, $14.99 trade paper (292p) ISBN 978-1-940-21540-2

Fans of Borum’s Painting the Moon will enjoy this return to the idyllic setting and quirky characters of the small English village of Chilton Crosse. When Holly Newbury’s mother died, Holly left university to help her workaholic father raise her three younger sisters. The drudgery of dealing with her siblings’ conflicting personalities and completing her studies online is pleasantly seasoned by her friendship with Fletcher, an American screenwriter temporarily in town to film an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, and less pleasantly by her father’s decision to move on from mourning and marry the Newburys’ housekeeper. When Holly and her boss (and would-be boyfriend) Frank decide to hold an Emma book club at the home of Holly’s misanthropic cousin, Holly realizes how much Austen’s novel parallels her own dilemmas and desires surrounding Fletcher. Borum’s slow-unfolding romance holds few surprises, but that’s forgivable in a story as much about place as people. (BookLife)