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Reviewed by Anne Boling for Readers' Favorite
There are two Gilly sisters, Jo and Claire. Jo stays much to herself on the salt farm. She was strong, stern, hardworking and loyal to the family’s tradition of farming salt. Claire was outgoing, egotistic, attractive and popular; her desire was to leave the farm behind and she was willing to sacrifice anything to achieve her goal. The community was half frightened of the Gilly’s. Often they wondered if the family were witches. Whitt Turner pursues Jo and seems half in love with her but Jo will have none of it, so he turns to Claire. Claire sees the opportunity to escape the salt and grabs it. What she gains maybe worse than what she leaves. After a marital incident Claire finds herself back on the Gilly Salt Farm along with a young pregnant woman. Can the broken bond between the sisters be repaired? Can a young selfish pregnant woman see beyond the immediate to the future?
It took me a couple of chapters to get into "The Gilly Sisters" but after that it held me captive to the end. The reader knows there are secrets but has to wait until Tiffany Baker decides to reveal them. It was delightful to watch as the sisters evolved from young children to mature adults. Tiffany Baker is an extremely talented author; she has characterization down to an art. She even developed the secondary characters. While Jo was my favorite, I grew to like Claire once I began to understand her. I would like to see Baker do a sequel to this book. I found it fascinating and I want more!
