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Summer Island

By: Kristin Hannah
Narrated by: Joyce Bean
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 Thirty-four-year-old Ruby Bridge is a not-too-successful comedienne who uses her mother, a nationally-syndicated "moral and spiritual counselor" as the main fodder for her cynical, rather bitter humor. Her mother Nora, long divorced from Ruby's father, is a woman whose past is just about to catch up with her - in the form of blackmail by a former lover.

After an accident (an attempted suicide?) Ruby returns to care for her stricken mother - bitterly resenting the fact that once again her mother's life has colonized hers. When she is approached by a publisher to write a biography of her mother, Ruby is desperate for the princely sum offered. Yet her research into her mother's past reveals a woman very different from the one Ruby expected. And what began as "mommy dearest" ends as a love story - not only between mother and daughter, but involving two very different men who play a key role in linking the past to the present.

©2001 Kristin Hannah (P)2004 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Genre Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Witty Comedy
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After reading the Great Alone this book was disappointing. Wasted a credit. Such is life.

Not her best

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The narrator in this one was absolutely fantastic. The story arc was relatively predictable but lovely - and of course heartbreaking in parts..

Perfectly imperfect characters

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Not authors best work. I was not a big fan of the voice of the reader either.

Predictable and cliche.

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Great story but did feel it ended suddenly, recommended to others. Relaxing and well presented

Great story

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I enjoyed this as good lesson. Life can go full circle, families sometimes fall out but they’re all we have in the end. Cherish them all.. and most of all, forgive .

Heartwarming story of love and forgiveness

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