Girls With Hammers by Cynn Chadwick

Girls With Hammers

Cynn Chadwick

Carpenter Lily Cameron first read the quote when her lover of 18 years, Hannah, left after a fight. Her best friend, Cat, had already moved to Scotland, leaving her no one to talk to about her churning emotions. Then the person she looked up to the most, her father, died-leaving her in charge of the family construction business and forcing her to put aside her own business, Girls With Hammers. Soon after, Hannah decided to take a position in Amsterdam. Lily was alone.

It’s never too late to be what you might have been.

What might she have been that she wasn’t already? Ever since she could walk, following her daddy around in a pair of overalls and a mini-hard hat, she’d wanted to be a carpenter. Since she was seventeen she’d wanted to be Hannah’s girlfriend. From the age of twenty-two she’d wanted to be her own boss. She was already, at thirty-five, everything she might have wanted to be. True?

Lily’s difficulties increased with the pressures of the new job and the expectations of her family. Feeling the approach of middle age, she found herself disconnected from her much younger crew. With Hannah across the ocean and sexual frustration setting in, the appearance of a good-looking, interested stranger didn’t help matters any. Even her newly widowed mother was no longer recognizable.

At times she was no surer of the people she’d known forever than she was of all the strangers who’d infiltrated her life. Everyone, from her mother to her most recent elusive hireling, felt like a foreigner. And those she loved and needed most were among strangers in other lands.

‘There better be a big lesson in this for me,’ she said to no one. The tears wetting her whole face now. ‘I ain’t goin’ through all this shit for nothin’.’

It is said things happen for a reason. Lily really wanted to believe that. At thirty-five, a woman should know who she is and what she wants. So, why did everything seem so unstable now? Then she realized:

It is never too late to believe in what you have already become.

Author Cynn Chadwick works her literary magic again with this charming tale of family, love, and Southern hospitality. Girls with Hammers is a story about a lesbian with a mid-life crisis and the revelations she has about herself. The characters are so realistic, even if you haven’t read Cat Rising yet, you’d swear you’ve met them before. It’s a romantic comedy everyone will enjoy!

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