Don't get me wrong - the story was entertaining and would make a good quick summer read. A younger mom with an 8-year old daughter is desperately trying to resume life after losing her husband a year earlier. The thought of living with a very controlling mother-in-law helps make her decision to take her daughter to a lake-cabin setting she visited as a young girl. The cabins are owned by a great-aunt of hers from whom she has been estranged for many years. The story itself was pretty predictable and without any twists or turns. However, there were some interesting characters at the lake, like Selma who is looking for husband #8 and Lisette who can't speak but writes notes and then burns them. While I didn't find this a page turner, I did think it could be an interesting discussion book about how we sometimes want to revisit a place from our childhood that holds fond memories. As a rule we find such places less intriguing in adulthood than they were perceived as a child. We find it is not the place, but the memory of the place. It is where we were at in our lives while making the memories that has the appeal. Where would our lives be without memories? And happy memories are the best. You won't get lost in the the story Lost Lake but perhaps you WILL get lost in your own memories of your most fondest summer from your youth. Happy time travel.

Her writing is beautiful and easy to read. Her insights and descriptions of the characters make them very intriguing. They were very true to life.

Not as heavy fare as we normally read, we had fun with it.

Kate’s husband passed away a year ago and she is having trouble moving on, in spite of the fact that her young daughter, Devin, desperately needs her. Day by day Kate goes through the motions of living allowing her mother-in-law, Cricket, take over her and Devin’s life. That is until Cricket sells Kate’s house and plans on having them all live together.
Kate finally arouses from her grief and decides she and Devin will have an adventure going to Lost Lake, which is owned by her great Aunt Eby, and whom she has been estranged from for many years. Kate was last there when she was twelve and it was the best summer of her life.
What Kate doesn’t realize is that this adventure will change the course of her life forever.