The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman
This was a wonderful book! Beautiful writing. I absolutely love a book where I can just "walk" into the story. I want to experience it with the characters. I want to know the characters. This book has beautiful heartfelt character development and heartwarming adventures with a wonderful love story.
In this story Augusta Stern learns that it's never too late for a new beginning. She is unmoored when she retires at almost eighty! With the help of her niece she relocates to a retirement community in southern Florida. She crosses paths with some old friends from the days she worked in her father's pharmacy.
In the 1920's she grew up in Brooklyn in a loving Jewish family. Her Aunt Esther moves in when her mother dies and her life forever changes. She had two role models, her father and her great aunt, both were heroes providing help to the community with their own methods.
Augusta grew up and followed her dream to pharmacy school and had a long career that she stretched out. Irving was her first love and her greatest heart break.
When the two, Esther and Irving find one another in the retirement community almost sixty years later, they forge a new friendship as they get to know one another. Old lies, heartbreak and answers surface among new friends and old ones. Augusta hopes to reclaim some of the magic she put away long ago and find her new place in this new community.
This is a beautifully written historical fiction account of living in Brooklyn in the 1920's post WWI and complete with prohibition mobsters. I absolutely loved everything about this story and the characters! I have added Augusta to my favorite character list! 5/5⭐