The Golden Hour by T. Greenwood
This is a book I plucked off my shelves to meet a reading challenge, and it was so much more than I expected. The central character here is Wyn Davies. She is an artist who has started selling custom art featuring birch trees to match clients' decor. She doesn't love this work, but it pays some of her bills. Wyn is unhappy about a lot of things in her life, and she recently asked her husband Gus for a separation. She now lives in the other half of their New York duplex and their four-year-old daughter Avery moves back and forth.
When Wyn was thirteen, she took a shortcut home from school through the woods and was violently attacked. The police found the boy involved, Robby Rousseau, walking home with blood on him and he soon confessed. He has spent the last twenty years in prison, but now his supporters are fighting for DNA testing on the evidence and a new trial. Wyn can't face that, and when she receives a threatening phone call, she decides to take her friend Pilar up on her offer to stay with her for a few months in an old house she bought on an island in Maine.
As Wyn struggles to identify all her feelings, her fears, and her hopes, she must face the truth about her past, one that is gradually revealed over the course of the novel, and figure out what she wants for her future. In the house she discovers another woman's story, and gets caught up in that .
This is a very intriguing book, one that had me reading into the wee hours. I liked the way that art was so important here, and how Wyn worked through her fears. A great read.
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