Between The Tides
by Patti Callahan Henry
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Author: Patti Callahan HenryEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-06-05
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: NAL Trade
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Book Review: A Thoroughly Enjoyable Read
Summary: 4 Stars
It is perhaps the quickest read of this year. I read this in two and half hours. I've read her other books and this one is not as good as her others, but it still provides a delightful read. This book will definitely appeal to the booklover in you, filled with lots of quotes and titles of books that the main character's dad had talked about. It is just perfect to kick off summer vacation with!
This book focuses on Catherine "Cappy" Leary, whose life changed drastically in her twelfth summer in a tragic accident. After the accident, her family uprooted and moved back to her parents' hometown within a very short period of time. Catherine grieved all those years blaming herself for the family move as well as for the tragic accident. She had given up her "second mother," a warm and vibrant woman named Ellie, who was married and had two boys, Boyd and Sam. Catherine had a loving relationship with her father and a distant one with her mother. She had a best friend named Piper and life was just bursting at the seams. Then tragedy hit and it hit hard.
Now that Catherine is thirty years old and an orphan as her father had died nine months previously. In his will, he stated he wanted his ashes scattered over the river in that little South Carolina town that she had grown up in. Returning to the town that she has never forgotten, Catherine meets her past and learned the dark secrets that were her dad's and others'. Even at the age of thirty, it is never too late to grow up. In the process, she realizes the truth about herself and the truth about her father's protege, Forrest, whom she used to date years before she started dating the college basketball recruiter.
The story is choppy in places and the ending is too rushed, but other than that, it provided a wonderful story for a stormy night. It is definitely a quick read and a delightful one.
6/3/08
Summary of Between The Tides
Nine months after Catherine Leary?s father, a literature professor, passed away, she still has not fulfilled his final wish: that she scatter his ashes in the Seaboro River in South Carolina. The scene of a childhood tragedy that forced her family to move, Seaboro is the last place Catherine wants to see again. But on the evening of her thirtieth birthday, her father?s young colleague - whom she once dated ? pays a visit. . . . Forrest Anderson offers a challenge from Catherine?s father: three probing questions that he had planned to put inside a birthday letter to his daughter. But it?s the news that Forrest plans to memorialize her father in an article that includes the family?s time in Seaboro ? and the surprising revelation that her father visited there in recent years ? that sends Catherine reeling. Hoping to stop Forrest from exposing her family?s secrets, she agrees to accompany him to her once ? beloved Lowcountry town - and embarks on a poignant trip into the past . . . a journey that might lead her into a new life of love, forgiveness, and self-discovery. . . .Domestic Life Books
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