Imagine one of those photograph albums full of little, square black and white prints. You can see pictures of people from your past posing for the camera. Do you know who they all are? Can you tell how these images fit together to form the foundations of your own life? Dramatic, heartwarming and bittersweet, this sweeping family saga is essentially a story about love and the sacrifices people make in its name. In Patterns of Our Lives, Audrey Freeman is trying to discover the truth about her mother. The dual narrative treatment allows the reader, through snapshots from the past, to discover more about Audrey’s history than she knows herself. Dramatic, heartwarming and bittersweet, this sweeping family saga is essentially a story about love and the sacrifices people make in its name.