2. Evie Lindsay had premonitions. It was genetic, handed down from mother to daughter in her family line. Do you have premonitions? Do you believe that other people could have premonitions? Would you want to have premonitions?

3. Who was your favorite female character? Betsy, Evie, Jules, Poppy, Aunt Camellia, Aunt Iris, or Tilly? Why?

4. Evie said, “You all knew this secret about me. You’ve all known how lonely I’ve often felt, how alone. There was something missing, and I couldn’t explain it, couldn’t fix it, couldn’t deal with it. I thought that it was me, that something was wrong with me. I thought it was my premonitions that were setting me apart, but it wasn’t. I had been taken from my biological parents, and somehow, some way, even though I was a baby, I felt it. That separation is what caused the inexplicable hole I have felt, I have battled, my whole life.”

Should Poppy and Henry have told their daughter, Evie, that she was adopted? When should they have told her? Do you understand their reasons for not telling Evie? Do you approve of their reasons?

5. Did Johnny and Betsy deserve to go to jail? Were they right in going to court to gain back custody of Evie when they were released? Should the judge have given them custody of their daughter? If it were you who lost Evie, would you believe that she should come back to your home, given the same circumstances?

6. Aunt Iris said, regarding the pot they were growing in their greenhouse, “Isn’t it better for all of us to die stoned than to die sober? It’s a much gentler way to spend your dying time.”

“I want to be high as a kite when I die,” Aunt Camellia said, her face ecstatic at the thought. “High. As. A. Kite. Flying through the heavens, dipping into the clouds, rolling over rainbows.”

How did you feel about the “mowie wowie” growing in the greenhouse?

7. Evie said, “I pulled myself together and went to work, because this is what we do when life falls apart: We buck up and we go to work and we take care of people and our responsibilities.

“Why? Because we must.

“And maybe that answer is, boringly, dully . . . perfect.”

What five words would you use to describe Evie? How did she change from the beginning of the book to the end? What would it be like to have her life and to see premonitions?

8. “Jail, Betsy decided, is actually hell.