The Pirate Queen by Patricia Hickman Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: WaterBrook Press; 1 edition (August 10, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 140007200X
• ISBN-13: 978-1400072002

Product Description

Treasure is found in the most unlikely places.
The envy of all her friends, wife and mother Saphora Warren is the model of southern gentility and accomplishment. She lives in a beautiful Lake Norman home, and has raised three capable adult children. Her husband is a successful plastic surgeon--and a philanderer. It is for that reason that, after hosting a garden party for Southern Living magazine, Saphora packs her bags to escape the trappings of the picturesque-but-vacant life. 

Saphora’s departure is interrupted by her husband Bender’s early arrival home, and his words that change her life forever: I’m dying.  
Against her desires, Saphora agrees to take care of Bender as he fights his illness. They relocate, at his insistance, to their coastal home in Oriental—the same house she had chosen for her private getaway. When her idyllic retreat is overrun by her grown children, grandchildren, townspeople, relatives, and a precocious neighbor child, Saphora’s escape to paradise is anything but the life she had imagined. As she gropes for evidence of God's presence amid the turmoil, can she discover that the richest treasures come in surprising packages? 
My Thoughts
The Pirate Queen by Patricia Hickman is a story of what happens to a marriage when the spouses are not happy any longer with each other. Told in the wife's voice we learn how unhappy she is and on the eve of a garden party, Saphora  Warren has decided she is going to leave her husband and go to their home in Oriental North Carolina.
When her surgeon husband comes home he has some devasting news and she will go to Oriental but not alone, she will be taking her husband there so she can take care of him. While there, the Warren's family also arrives at various times, there is the handsome neighbor who is a widower, a young boy who has HIV, the local minister. This story was a joy to read, it made me smile more than once and have tears a lot. I hated for the book to end. Patricia Hickman knows how to write an emotional and inspirational story. I highly recommend it.
I received a copy of this book from Waterbrook Books and was not compensated monetarily for my review.