Summer Island

Hannah, Kristin

ISBN 10: 1480563021 ISBN 13: 9781480563025

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2013

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

KRISTIN HANNAH IS A GIFTED AUTHOR WHO KNOWS THE MOST SECRET, TENDER PARTS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND SOUL. . . . [She] shows us the potential and the power of love.
TAMI HOAG
A FASCINATING STORY OF LOVE, HEALING, FORGIVENESS, AND RENEWAL . . . Certain to strike a chord in the hearts of mothers and daughters everywhere.
Tulsa World
MANY A DAUGHTER WILL SEE SOMETHING OF HERSELF IN RUBY.
People

From the Paperback edition."

-KRISTIN HANNAH IS A GIFTED AUTHOR WHO KNOWS THE MOST SECRET, TENDER PARTS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND SOUL. . . . [She] shows us the potential and the power of love.-
--TAMI HOAG
-A FASCINATING STORY OF LOVE, HEALING, FORGIVENESS, AND RENEWAL . . . Certain to strike a chord in the hearts of mothers and daughters everywhere.-
--Tulsa World
-MANY A DAUGHTER WILL SEE SOMETHING OF HERSELF IN RUBY.-
--People

From the Paperback edition.

"KRISTIN HANNAH IS A GIFTED AUTHOR WHO KNOWS THE MOST SECRET, TENDER PARTS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND SOUL. . . . [She] shows us the potential and the power of love."
--TAMI HOAG

"A FASCINATING STORY OF LOVE, HEALING, FORGIVENESS, AND RENEWAL . . . Certain to strike a chord in the hearts of mothers and daughters everywhere."
--Tulsa World

"MANY A DAUGHTER WILL SEE SOMETHING OF HERSELF IN RUBY."
--People

From the Paperback edition.

Book Description:

A luminous novel from the author of the international bestseller ON MYSTIC LAKE about a mother and daughter and the complex ties that bind them.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1480563021
• ISBN 13: 9781480563025
• Binding: Audio CD