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My Best Memory: Helene's Story (My Best Series Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Carole Wolfe (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.7 21 ratings

Book 3 of 5: My Best Series

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She needs to feel in control. When it’s all stripped from her, can a fifty-something mother build a bridge to a better tomorrow?

Helene Shaw’s life is falling apart. She doesn’t have her friends’ respect, her eldest daughter moved to get away from her, and now her youngest is refusing her perfectly sensible advice on planning her wedding. But even with all that going on, she’s still shocked by her husband’s ultimatum: Cease her meddling ways, or he’s leaving.

Dragged to couples’ therapy, Helene is determined to shield her deepest trauma from the probes of their know-it-all counselor. But when an unexpected tragedy catapults her back to the worst moment of her childhood, she’s terrified she’s about to lose everything that ever mattered.

Can Helene come to terms with her painful past before she destroys all hope for a happy future?

My Best Memory - Helene's Story is the stirring third book in the My Best women’s fiction series. If you like family sagas, strong-willed heroines, and emotional journeys, then you’ll love Carole Wolfe’s moving tale.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0959Z62T3
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Blind Vista Press (June 3, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 3, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1797 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 252 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0999358294

Best Sellers Rank: #928,128 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,189 in Later in Life Romance (Kindle Store)
- #4,602 in Sisters Fiction
- #4,673 in Family Life Fiction (Kindle Store)

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Carole Wolfe writes women’s fiction that makes you smile. She enjoys running at a leisurely pace, crocheting baby blankets for others and drinking wine when she can find the time. After moving nine times in twenty years, Carole and her family have settled in Texas.

Follow Carole at www.carolewolfe.com.

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Lori W Palmer

The origin story of an antagonist

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2021

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My Best Memory is the third book in a series. Helene Shaw, the mother of Tasha and Sara from the first two books, is the main character. She’s been shown as an antagonist in the first two books. Her manipulative tactics make her seem like the mother from hell. This story is an origin story to let us know how Helene became the way she was, and makes her a sympathetic character. The book begins with Helene and her husband, Max, in a therapist’s office. He gives her an ultimatum to get herself straightened out in the ten weeks before Tasha’s wedding, or he will leave her. Helene fights therapy at first, but makes great strides once she cooperates. She discovers how her feelings about her parents and grandparents make her want to be in control of situations to the detriment of others. She finally backs off of trying to plan Tasha’s wedding for her, and reconnects with Sara. The main focus of the story is Helene’s character arc, which is improves greatly by the end. People who like family sagas and happy endings will love this book.

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2021

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After reading the first two books, they left me curious about Helene and why she acted the way she did. She was never happy unless she was meddling in her two daughters' lives. Even though they were both grown and living on their own, Helene still felt the need to manage them. Not until her husband insists she get help does Helene realize her controlling ways. Carole Wolf does an excellent job taking us back to Helene's childhood and her upbringing with a strict and loveless grandmother. With the help of a psychiatrist and a loving husband, Helene achieves the insight she needs to change.

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Valda D.

Very touching and entertaining

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2021

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This is the best book of the series. Helene's life was a disaster. In the previous books, I couldn't stand her but now I like her. That's a sign of a talented and creative writer. I got emotional going through Helene's story and Helene has a story to tell. Don't miss the best of the series.

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My Favorite in the Three Book Series

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2021

Carole Wolfe saved the best for last in her three-book My Best series. Do yourself a favor and buy the whole series at the affordable price of $10.99 or less. First, we learn about daughter Tasha, a newly divorced mother of twins and a bit of a scatterbrain. Then we learn about sister Sarah, a woman lawyer whose neat and tidy and has a habit of using her yoga calming breath often. Both daughters warned each other Mom was coming and complained of what a pain she was.
The last book, My Best Memory makes the family saga complete. We find the reason she was a maddening meddler. It was worth the wait.
Of course, you can read My Best Memory as a stand-alone. It is fun to see Helene's intruding ways from the viewpoint of her daughters, but this book does well on its own. Starting out Helene's (not Helen) problematic behavior lands her in therapy. As a mother of three grown children, I identified with her. Helene's trespassing into the lives of her daughters is extreme and something I would never do. However, this book serves as a check to think before opening my mouth or I may alienate one of my children with the wrong message.
Carole Wolfe's expert writing also invoked a lot of empathy. I read the book in one day because I couldn't wait to get to the grand finale.

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2021

Poor Max. Helene’s devoted husband has a dilemma that feels so truly heartbreaking, he had my complete sympathy. Helene had already alienated one of their daughters and seemed bent on alienating their second daughter with her machinations. Helene simply would not stop meddling no matter what Max did. He finally had enough. He gave Helene an ultimatum: change her ways or their marriage was over. Would she finally take him seriously, or force him to choose between his wife and his daughters?
I read this in one sitting, something I rarely do. It is a story to devour, a great beach read. Although ‘My Best Memory’ is the third of a series, it is a satisfying stand-alone for readers who enjoy women’s fiction and family drama.
I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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Cindy

Great 3rd installment for series

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2021

This is the 3rd book in this series and I was curious to see how the author would pull in Helene's story. I am thrilled to say I love how this one fits right in with the other two. The author provides in depth characters where you fill connected with them and where you find yourself irritated with them and rooting for them at the same time.
This is a must read and great for a vacation read or summer reading group.

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Madeline

The Puzzle Pieces from the Mother's Past

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2021

Having read the first two in this series, I find Helene's story is the secret sauce that completes the Shaw family saga. If you enjoy discovering and piecing together the missing puzzle pieces that complete the picture of what makes this family tick, you will enjoy this addition to the series. If this book is the first one you pick up, it does not disappoint. You will not be lost without reading Tasha's and Sara's stories--but I. do recommend them as well.

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Evelyn Puerto

Fabulous Finale to the Series

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2021

After having read the first two in the series, I wasn’t sure I’d enjoy a novel about Helene, the mother who’d made her daughters’ lives miserable. But somehow the author made me feel sorry for Helene, and by the end of the story I was cheering for her. This is a lovely story that brings the trilogy to a satisfying close and is a thoroughly enjoyable read. I was given an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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david alexander rae

Very very funny

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 1, 2022

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Helene is a bit of Diva, but not without reason. This is an uplifting story of self discovery and love

Selma in Japan

That Helene — I disliked her for what I didn’t know about her.

Reviewed in Japan on June 4, 2021

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My Best Memory - Helene's Story, by Carole Wolfe starts off with a heroine that I found hard to like. But I wasn’t the only one who felt that way — her friends’ didn’t like or respect her, her eldest daughter moved far away because she couldn’t stand her ways. And you should read what she did to the dresses her other daughter set her heart on to wear for her wedding. SMH.
What a meddlesome woman! Manipulative in every way.
But then through her therapy sessions I slowly came to see a little girl who needed to heal. Good gracious, Wolfe made me privy to much in Helene’s therapy sessions that my dislike slowly turned to pity for the protagonist. It was then that I gave in and let Wolfe tell me the story.
And I’m glad I did. Satisfactory ending. The Shaw family got a better mother in the end.
I like family sagas and love feel good happy endings that teach ME something.
Thanks, Carole Wolfe. Amazing job.

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