A tale celebrating strong women, female friendships and the special bond between mothers and daughters, this charming book is the perfect companion to a hot cup of tea on a winter afternoon. The Nature of Fragile Things is the mesmerizing, enchanting new novel from author Susan Meissner. Ingeniously plotted and perfectly structured, this captivates from beginning to end. The plucky and principled Sophie (who is hiding a few secrets of her own) captivates from the first page, while naive Belinda and sensitive Kat are standouts. Unexpected and masterfully crafted twists and turns abound after the earthquake, as a federal marshall questions Sophie about Martin’s disappearance. This leads the two women to go through Martin’s papers, and they deduce he’d married both of them under different names. Pon seeing a picture of Martin, Belinda recognizes him as James. Sophie falls head over heels for Martin’s five-year-old daughter, Kat, having given up having a child of her own, and looks forward to developing a bond with her new husband.īut Sophie learns that all is not as it seems when a pregnant woman named Belinda Bigelow shows up on her doorstep hours before the earthquake, looking for her husband, James, who told Belinda he had business with Martin. Susan Meissner spins an exceptional story about an Irish immigrant who lands in San Francisco shortly before the 1906 earthquake.Īfter spending two years in New York City, Sophie Whalen, 20, answers a newspaper ad from widower Martin Hocking of San Francisco, who is seeking a wife for him and a mother for his daughter.
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