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Review: Before We Were Yours












Title: Before we were Yours

Author: Lisa Wingate

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What's it about?

Present day: The stories of two women collide when Avery, the daughter of a senator and the family's hope for the future has an odd run in with an elderly woman at a nursing home she visits. Little does she know that this one encounter will change her life forever.


Memphis 1939. Rilla's life is about to take a turn when her parents, leave their river home to seek medical help, leaving Rilla with her 4 siblings behind. Eager for word of their parents, Rilla and her brother and sisters are taken from their home and forced into a journey to come to terms with losing everyone they love and find new home, despite every obstacle thrown into their way.


But when there are too many unanswered questions and not nearly enough answers, it be