The concept of bringing beauty to people who don’t have access to it, is such a fantastic subject. There’s something so insightful and incredible that God loved creativity for creativity’s sake, and gives us things like flowers and nature, sometimes for no other reason than for the sake of beauty in our lives. The mental reprieve it gives those in stressful or unthinkable circumstances I think is so inspiring and thought provoking. There is so much more to us than material need and practical things. Sometimes the impractical has as much impact as the practical. Art, beauty, nature. It’s easily overlooked and yet he spent so much time orchestrating it for us.

The concepts of generosity for no intended return was also beautiful and emotional. So important and inspiring.

I loved the pieces of history in Rye, NY, as I’ve been thru there on the way to NYC. And I loved that this is based on the authors real family story.

Some of Sadie’s naïveté felt a little overdone and redundant at times. How she was constantly deluded enough that her father would defy all societal notion and give the nursery to her willingly despite his constant voicing to the contrary. The flip flop of her father after the storm when she did what he asked her and he felt terrible, felt disingenuous and didn’t make sense also. Those were my only real objections for the storyline but enough that it diminished the concept a little for me as a story. Otherwise I absolutely loved the concept of nature, beauty and generosity.

Thanks to Netgalley for the advanced copy of this book. All opinions are mine.