In Her Boots
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3.5 • 6 Ratings
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Publisher Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Chicken Sisters comes a delightfully entertaining story about a ruse that goes awry and a chaotic homecoming that proves that confronting your past can sometimes set you free.
Sometimes you have to go big to go home.
Rhett Gallagher’s adventurous life is imploding. Just as she turns the big 4-0, her long-term relationship collapses and her gran’s death draws her back to the family farm. The only silver lining is that Rhett’s inspirational book, The Modern Pioneer Girl’s Guide to Life—written under a pseudonym—has become a wild success, so much so that when her big publicity moment comes, self-doubting Rhett panics and persuades her best friend, Jasmine, to step into the limelight in her stead.
But their prank turns into something more when the controlling mother Rhett hasn’t seen in two decades announces her intent to sell the farm Rhett loves and expected to make her own. To save her inheritance—and her identity—Rhett must concoct a scheme that will protect her home and finally prove to her mother, and to herself, that she can stand on her own two feet.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dell'Antonia (The Chicken Sisters) returns with a lively tale involving a famous globe-trotting author's struggle to save her inheritance. Rhett Smith, 40, whose book The Modern Pioneer Girl's Guide to Life has inspired hordes of women to travel alone, leaves Argentina and the wreckage of a breakup to take over the family farm in Bowford, N.H., after her grandmother's death. On the way, Rhett stops in New York City to see her best friend, Jasmine, and do an interview on the Today Show. At the studio, she's surprised to sees her 20-years-estranged mother, Margaret Pearl Gallagher, as a fellow guest. Panicked, she switches places with Jasmine. When Rhett and Jasmine arrive at the farm, keeping up the charade, Margaret is there, too, and explains she owns half of the farm and plans to sell it to the local college. Rhett's dream of revitalizing the property into a modern working farm depends on whether she can buy her mother's half, but an accident scuttles her loan. Meanwhile, Rhett reconnects with a former boyfriend and reflects on her complicated relationship with Margaret. Dell'Antonia offers an affecting take on damaged relationships, while keeping things light with descriptions of spunky farm animals and the quirks of rural life. The author's fans will love this.
Customer Reviews
Beach read hit 2022
Rhett is the author of a hit book called The Modern Pioneer Girl that she wrote under a pseudonym. Rhett, along with her best friend Jasmine, think it would be a great idea to have Jasmine impersonate her during a television interview. The problem is that Jasmine does a great job during the interview and becomes the face of the Modern Pioneer Girl which doesn’t really sit well with Rhett. Rhett is 40 years old. You would think she had a bottle handle on life but she is constantly getting in her own way. This is an enjoyable rom-com that will probably become a top beach read this summer. Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and The author for the ARC ( kindle) in exchange for an honest review.