#BlogTour: It All Comes Back To You by Beth Duke @ZooloosBT #ItAllComesBackToYou #BethDuke

Book Synopsis:

Alabama, 1947.

War’s over, cherry-print dresses, parking above the city lights, swing dancing.

Beautiful, seventeen-year-old Violet lives in a perfect world.

Everybody loves her.

In 2012, she’s still beautiful, charming, and surrounded by admirers.

Veronica “Ronni” Johnson, licensed practical nurse and aspiring writer, meets the captivating Violet in the assisted living facility where Violet requires no assistance, just lots of male attention. When she dies, she leaves Ronni a very generous bequest―only if Ronni completes a book about her life within one year. As she’s drawn into the world of young Violet, Ronni is mesmerized by life in a simpler time. It’s an irresistible journey filled with revelations, some of them about men Ronni knew as octogenarians at Fairfield Springs.

Struggling, insecure, flailing at the keyboard, Ronni juggles her patients, a new boyfriend, and a Samsonite factory of emotional baggage as she tries to craft a manuscript before her deadline.
But then the secrets start to emerge, some of them in person.

And they don’t stop.
Everything changes.

Alternating chapters between Homecoming Queen Violet in 1947 and can’t-quite-find-her-crown Ronni in the present, IT ALL COMES BACK TO YOU is Southern Fiction at its hilarious, warm, sad, outrageous, uplifting, and stunning best. In the tradition of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand and Olive Kitteridge, Duke delivers an unforgettable elderly character to treasure and a young heroine to steal your heart.

It All Comes Back To You is available in ebook and paperback now. You can purchase your copy using the link below.

My Review:

It All Comes Back To You is a beautiful, heartwarming read that I thoroughly enjoyed.

Firstly I loved the quirky characters in this book who were great fun to get to know and easy to warm to. The story is told in alternate chapters between Veronica and Violet which I found very interesting. It was great to learn more about these two and their past . I did love Veronica a bit more then Violet as her antics through the years did make me smile at times. She’s the kind of person I’d love to be friends with as she just had this quality that made her hugely likeable and fun. Ronnie was another amazing character and I thought it was truly heart warming how much her love for violet shone through.

I thought this book was easy to read as there was always something happening to keep my attention. The story of the two women was very moving and took me through all the emotions as I found myself crying one moment and laughing the next. It was fascinating to discover that despite their age differences the two women were actually very similar and had had a lot of similar experiences.

Overall I loved this book and will be recommending it to everyone. I think it would make a great book club read as there would be lots to discuss. This is the first book I’ve read by this author and I’d love to read more in the future.

Huge thanks to Zoe from Zooloo’s blog tours for inviting me onto the blog tour and for my copy of this book.

About The Author:

Beth Duke is the recipient of short story awards on two continents and is eyeing the other five. Her novels DELANEY’S PEOPLE, DON’T SHOOT YOUR MULE, and IT ALL COMES BACK TO YOU have earned a great deal of critical praise, including ‘Beth Duke is a wordsmith of the best kind and her stories rank with the best in classic Southern fiction’ from Dan Brown, Author of Reunion. Her work has been published in numerous magazines and literary digests. Beth lives in the mountains of her native Alabama with her husband, one real dog, one ornamental dog, and a flock of fluffy pet chickens. Baking is a hobby, with semi-pro cupcakes and amateur macarons a specialty. And puns-she is a proud punslinger. Travel is her other favorite thing, along with joining book clubs for discussion. Please visit bethduke.com for more information and photos of the most beautiful readers in the world.