The Sweetness of Forgetting is a story of family, love, honesty.and baked goods. Giving Hope nothing but a list of names, Rose sends her on a journey of discovery that takes Hope to a synagogue and a mosque in Paris, to a history buried in the Holocaust, and to a long-lost love with secrets of his own. Kristin Harmel lives in Orlando, Florida. She's also the author of two novels for teens.

She also reports for People magazine, and her work has appeared in magazines including Glamour, Runner's World, Woman's Day, American Baby, and Men's Health. What if she hadn't abandoned her dreams of law school? What if she hadn't quit her job to raise her daughter? What if she hadn't caught her husband cheating on her with a clichÉd blonde bimbo? When her aging grandmother, Rose, summons her to hear a long-held secret, Hope finally has the opportunity to stop thinking 'what if?' and start thinking 'what now?' Rose's memory is ebbing rapidly due to the onset of Alzheimer's, and she knows she doesn't have much time left to tell Hope the truth about a secret she's kept for seventy years. Kristin Harmel is the author of four women's fiction novels.

Hope McKenna-Smith, divorced mother of a surly not-quite-teenage girl, runs her family bakery on Cape Cod, but is starting to wonder what might have been. Kristin Harmel has written four adult novels, including her latest Italian for Beginners, and teen novel When You Wish. It will take an unexpected friendship with a fiery Italian waitress, a whirlwind Vespa tour of the Eternal City with a handsome stranger, and a surprise encounter with an old acquaintance to show Cat that life doesn't always work out the way you expect, but sometimes you have to have fall in order to fly.From the author of Italian for Beginners, a lush, heartwarming novel about a woman who travels to Paris to uncover a family secret for her dying grandmother - and discovers more than she ever imagined. Now, she must see if she has the courage to live outside the lines for the first time-and to face a past she never understood. But her reunion with the slick and gorgeous Francesco is short-lived, and she finds herself suddenly alone in Rome. Description Details Reviews In this romantic whirlwind of a novel, follow Cat as she flies to Italy to rediscover who she is, and takes the chance of a lifetime. To shake herself free from her old life, she decides to accept an invitation to spend a month with an old flame in Italy. But after her little sister gets married, Cat wonders if she has condemned herself to a life of boredom by playing by the rules. Thirty-four-year-old Manhattan accountant Cat Connelly has always lived life on the safe side.

In this romantic whirlwind of a novel, follow Cat as she flies to Italy to rediscover who she is, and takes the chance of a lifetime.

Italian for beginners by kristin harmel