When Jasmine Blooms

Name: When Jasmine Blooms
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Tif Marcelo
ISBN: 9798400100376

Author: Tif Marcelo

Narrator: Ferdelle Capistrano

Unabridged: 10 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 04/11/2023

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Women

Synopsis

From USA Today bestselling author Tif Marcelo comes a timeless tale of motherhood inspired by Little Women about one woman’s grief, hope, and second chance with the daughter she lost.It’s been two years since Celine lost her daughter Libby. Desperate to escape her grief, Celine throws herself into her work, determined to be the strong, capable woman the world believes her to be. But there’s no fooling her family.A shocking intervention brings an impossible choice: confront her grief or risk losing the family she still has. Reeling, Celine wonders what her life would have been like if she’d chosen her first love instead of her husband and avoided this pain altogether.Celine wakes the following day and is shocked to realize that what-if has become reality. She’s with her high school sweetheart, her daughters aren’t quite her daughters, and her home is being rented by the daughter she thought she’d lost forever.As she reconnects with Libby in this parallel world, Celine is forced to face the problems in her real life: her unwillingness to move forward, the tension that’s always rocked her family, and the hard truth that not everything can be fixed by a mother’s love.

About Tif Marcelo

Tif Marcelo is a veteran US Army nurse and holds a BS in nursing and a master’s in public administration. She believes in and writes about the strength of families, the endurance of friendship, and heartfelt romances and is inspired daily by her own military hero husband and four children. She hosts the Stories to Love podcast, and she is also the author of contemporary fiction, contemporary romance, and young adult fiction. Her website, including a link to her newsletter, is at www.TifMarcelo.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shelley's Book Nook

My Reviews Can Also Be Found On:Twitter - Amazon- Storygraph - The Book Review Crew Why did humans do this to one another? Why was it our nature to push away rather than pull people close in times of struggle? This book broke my heart into a million pieces and then put it back together again......more

Goodreads review by Spiritedbookishbabe

The story is about a mother grieving over the death of one of her daughters. I know I wouldn’t be able to deal if one of my children passed away. I Know be heartbroken. I felt really awful for the mother.......more

Goodreads review by Christy

3.5 stars    When Jasmine Blooms is my first Tif Marcelo book and I enjoyed it. I was excited to see that this was inspired by ‘Little Women’ but I didn’t read any further into the blurb than that.  This was one of those books that was kind of an alternate/dream reality book. What my life would have......more

Goodreads review by Nursebookie

TITLE: WHEN JASMINE BLOOMS AUTHOR: TIF MARCELO PUB DATE: 04.11.2023 Now Available When Jasmine Blooms is a poignant story about a mother, the loss of a child, and all the grief that comes along with it. Using Maarme as an inspiration, we find ourselves immersed into Celine’s life, spiraling over the lo......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

A love letter to LITTLE WOMEN and a healing journey through grief, wrapped into one: Tif Marcelo's WHEN JASMINE BLOOMS reads like a comforting, warm hug.......more

Quotes

“Marcelo’s (It Takes Heart, 2021) latest, inspired by Little Women, is an emotional story with hints of humor and Filipino baking. Readers will be drawn in by Celine’s conundrum and root for her happy ending.” —Booklist