Penguin Audio, 2008
9 unabridged cds
11 hours
352 pgs.
Rating: 4
Setting: NantucketThis is a feel-good book with a happy ending. Everyone needs one of these once in awhile, and it was read so beautifully that I looked forward to just listening to the words wrapping around me. Cassandra Campbell has a lovely voice and puts just enough special inflection and personality into the voice of each character that you can tell them apart instantly.
One-sentence summary: A small cast of characters rent rooms in Nan Powell's "Windemere" one summer, creating a family of sorts: Daniel, newly divorced and just out-of-the-closet; Daff and her13-year-old daughter, Jess, who is trying to deal with her parents' divorce; Michael, Nan's son, home to Nantucket from NYC and a troublesome affair with his boss.
You really get to know the characters, including the exes and dead . Green makes sure we get a sampling of every part of life and death, joy and sadness, euphoria and misery, uncertainty and despair. Yup, she's wrapped it all up in this one story. It was a good "listen."
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