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Gaining Visibility

by Pamela Hearon
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"Cross How Stella Got Her Groove Back with Under the Tuscan Sun, and you've got Gaining Visibility, a novel that is at times beautiful, at times heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting." –Wendy Webb
Julia Berkwith's daughter has moved to Alaska, her beloved mother-in-law is in a nursing home, and her ex-husband is in Hawaii—with a younger woman. In her late forties, Julia is now used to being invisible. But even if she has to do it alone, she's determined to celebrate her victory over breast cancer by hiking Italy's Cinque Terre. And while she's there, she can scout out treasures for her interior design business back in Kentucky.

Invigorated by the beauty of the Italian countryside, Julia seems unstoppable, until she's injured by a rock—one that happens to belong to thirty-something stone mason Vitale DeLuca. Reluctantly, Julia accepts Vitale's insistent offer of lodging while she recovers. But in his home, amid his exquisite sculptures, Julia sees beyond his charm and looks to something special: a talent she must bring to the world's attention. And once she does, she plans to step aside to leave him in the spotlight. But Vitale has seen something in Julia too, something she is no longer able to recognize in herself. And he is determined to find a way to show it to her.

Poignant and uplifting, Gaining Visibility is an exhilarating story of one woman's realization that even the deepest scars have a beauty of their own—and that it's time to take her place in the sun once more.

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    September 27, 2016

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      • ISBN: 9781496704290
      • File size: 2078 KB

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      • ISBN: 9781496704290
      • File size: 2078 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      August 1, 2016

      Kentucky-based interior designer Julia Berkwith has been feeling invisible for quite some time, even longer than the two years she's been fighting breast cancer and since husband Frank walked out on her. Now her daughter is living in Alaska and her adored ex-mother-in-law is kicking up her heels in a nursing home, freeing Julia to show she's made of sterner stuff. With her implants firmly in place, she's off to Italy. Julia has been training to hike the Cinque Terre, a series of trails through five villages in Liguria, near the town of Lerici. Unfortunately, she's distracted by a hunky stonemason. Breaking her toe isn't in the plan, nor is the care and attention from 34-year-old Vitale, who isn't a stonemason but an artist and doesn't seem to think a 48-year-old Americana is off-limits. VERDICT Cancer survivor Hearon (In EmmyLou's Hands) puts the force of her own experience into this delightful story that will be appreciated by most women, especially those of a certain age who don't want to do anything, let alone grow old, gracefully. A few minor gaffes won't dissuade readers from traveling along. Benvenuto.--Bette-Lee Fox, Library Journal

      Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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