The Necklace, the new novel by Claire McMillan is spectacular! It is set for release next month and it will not disappoint. I would love to see it on the NYT bestsellers list! I seriously didn’t want to put it down. I would call it a split times novel of family revelations and struggle in finding your place in history.The two brothers, Ambrose and Ethan, who live in the “dry” 1920’s love the same woman. She is a jazzy party princess and lives for the social life. Her name is May and she is independent and stubborn to a fault. After marrying the wrong brother, she receives a necklace as a wedding gift. The necklace becomes a wedge between the once tight-bonded brothers. Skip to present day and Nell inherits the necklace from her great-aunt Lou. Lou is the stingy, old money, moth ball smelling woman who raised Nell’s mom. Lou is also the only other sibling of the two brothers. Nell is a successful lawyer who handles Lou’s estate after her death. Nell has to dive into her family’s hush-hush history to discover why she would want a dusty old costume piece that nobody seems to know about. Add Lou’s sexy estate lawyer Louis to the mix to complicate and confuse matters for Nell.
I loved this book because it had romantic tones to it but it also highlighted the strengths of the underlying matriarchal figures in the family. The women are the heroines but also their own worst enemies, doubting the strength they have to change their own futures. How do you follow your heart and stay true to those you love while crushing them? May finds that to follow her destiny she must break invisible chains of loyalty and lies. History repeats instead for Nell as the necklace threatens to tear apart the few family she has left. The chapters bounce between the past and present to weave a tense love and loss tale of the two women that will leave you begging for more. Read it for yourself to discover the bond that holds May and Nell to one another and how they are both saved by the mysterious necklace.
I’ll have to check it out! Thanks for taking the time to review it. 🙂
Lovely post! I’ve been looking for a new book to read, this one sounds like a possibility. I love a good mystery!
The cover of the book is beautiful! I will check this book out for sure!
Love it when the main characters are strong women- and there’s a twist at the end! Will pick up this book for my next read!
This book sounds very interesting! I love that it’s set in the 1920s.
Putting this on my reading list right away! Thanks for the great recap and recommendation!
The necklace sounds like a great summer time book!
I’ve never heard of this book before, but what a sweet book review you’ve written here. I hope to one day, have the time to read it. <3
Sounds interesting, I will have to add it to the “to read” list!
Thanks for taking the time to review this book, I’m always looking for something new to read! Might just have to suggest this to my wine…er… I mean BOOK club. 🙂
Sounds like a great book. I’ll have to put “The Necklace ” on my to read list.
I am always on a lookout for the next good read, so thank you for sharing this! I can’t wait to check this one out!! 🙂
TOtally going to check this one out. Thank you!