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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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It is so wonderfully performed and told. Loved this story. It wasn’t predictable and kept me listening and hoping. It succeeded

Great story, great characters

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I like the idea and the storyline and it was interesting to see how it all unfolds. Kristin Hannah has improved so much over the years , the early work is promising but not amazing yet.

I like the idea of the book

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I couldn’t finish this, the narrator sounds like AI, ruins a good story. Very Disappointing.

Terrible narrator

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Good easy read. Not as captivating as some of Kristin’s other books like the Women or Nightingale

Good buy not Kristin’s best

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A slow start but became more engaging from chapter 20. Overall a lovely story of family reconciliation.

Heartwarming

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