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The Heart of Winter
- Narrated by: Emma Lowe
- Series: Huntersbrook House, Book 2
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Women's Fiction
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Summary
Emma Hannigan, author of the Irish top-10 best seller The Summer Guest, delivers a glorious and warm family novel that will delight fans of Patricia Scanlan and Cathy Kelly.
Holly Craig's family have lived happily in Huntersbrook for generations but when times grow hard, even she must admit defeat and sell off their once-successful stables. The three Craig children, Lainey, Joey, and Pippa find themselves locked in a fight to keep their beloved Huntersbrook; dare they transform it into one of Ireland's most sought after countryside venues? Renovation work is well underway when life rears its ugly head and everything stops in its tracks. The Craig family is forced to reassess what matters and although they no longer live at Huntersbrook, can the house work its magic even so...and lead them into the light once more?
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- Mrs. D. Smith
- 05-02-15
Enjoyable but predictable.
This was quite a good story but we all knew everything was going to come good at the end. A good book to have on while you're busy doing the housework or ironing.
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