So Dear to My Heart cover

So Dear to My Heart

by Barbara Rowan

The visit to Switzerland was an important one for the Holt sisters, for Lisa was to undergo, at the hands of a famous surgeon, an operation the success or failure of which would decide her whole future. Virginia, accompanying her, did not guess that her fate too was to be decided at the same clinic between a calm, beautiful lake and the snow-capped mountains; and by the same commanding, inscrutable man.

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Chappie’s discussion starters

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?