Women's fiction, ACFW book club book, Hidden in the Heart by Catherine West focuses on a number of topics — adoption, addiction, depression, divorce, and a bunch of other relational issues in families.
Protagonist, Claire Ferguson was hard to like at first, but seeing her at her lowest, gave me greater joy in her rise. My favorite secondary characters were, of course, Claire's husband, a man of tender patience, Claire's grandparents, though I knew they wouldn't come out stainless, and Darcie, living out her faith with courage.
There is a lot going on in this book, plot-wise and spiritually. Cathy did a good job of engaging my emotions, and I think I cried every time Claire's husband stepped on the page for at least the first 150 pages.
I don't want to talk about the plot too much and give away the tangled ending, so I'll just say, if you like women's fiction, if you like to see the needy and broken rise and win, if you like to have hope that God works in all things, and you like to see God glorified, you will like Hidden in the Heart.
