Picking up the Pieces - Reviews

$22.95 (postal price adds $2 more)

ISBN: 978-1-921633-16-4

Paula Vince, author of Risky Way Home

Reviews

(May contain plot spoilers).

I started reading Picking up the Pieces yesterday morning and couldn’t put it down. It was amazing. I was left breathless at the end – literally! I got no housework done yesterday. It was such a beautiful example of the amazing forgiveness of our Father and the way He can totally transform lives. Blake was such a nice guy – even from the beginning I loved him – and I loved him more and more over time! WOW, I tell you the honest truth – I was left breathless!

Martha Mugamu

Paula Vince is a talented writer of fiction and “Picking up the Pieces” is Christian fiction at its best. It’s a contemporary drama that had me absolutely riveted from the first page. I was hunting for excuses to sit down and read some more. I feel that PUP rivals the best there is in the same category of contemporary drama, romance.
The story tackles the sensitive issue of sexual assault as the main theme. Secondary themes of dealing with self-image in the lives of the physically and emotionally abused brothers also has the readers asking all those difficult questions over again; but Paula Vince handles the answers in a mature, realistic and satisfying way.
I’m totally committed to seeing this novel and this writer taking a secure place on the Australian Christian fiction bookshelf. Australian readers will be proud to know that Paula Vince is one of our own.

Meredith Resce

I loved Picking up the Pieces. Paula Vince’s characters really came alive for me and gripped me from that first page – so much so that I ended up burning the midnight oil because I simply had to find if, and then how, she reconciled the terrible things done to Claire. The ending came together so beautifully it made me laugh, cry, but overall rejoice that we have such a wonderful and loving Heavenly Father who can ‘make all things new’ with forgiveness and love.

Mary Hawkins, Australian fiction author