The Lost Hours
by Karen White
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Author: Karen WhiteEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2009-04-07
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: NAL Trade
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Book Review: LOST FAMILY CONNECTIONS
Summary: 4 Stars
Alone and fragile, Piper Mills does not know what to do next in her life. After her parents died when she was six, and her grandparents took her in, she had found something special in riding horses; she even dreamed of becoming an Olympic equestrian. But then another tragic accident shattered those dreams.
So when her grandfather dies, soon followed by her grandmother, she is almost entombed in the Savannah home where she grew up. Then the family lawyer brings some strange legacies--an angel charm, an old key, and a mysterious hint of more treasures to find.
As she begins searching through an old box she recalls her grandfather buried, she is led to a mysterious room in the attic and more secrets begin to surface.
Her search leads her to an old horse plantation and one of her grandmother's childhood friends. As she begins to unlock the secrets in some scrapbook pages--each of the three girlhood friends kept a set of pages--the pieces gradually fall into place.
But will the secrets shed more light on her grandmother's life, or will they only resurrect more pain? And what will happen to the new bonds forming between Piper and her grandmother's friend Lillian? Will romance follow?
I loved the characters, the settings, and the way the secrets were revealed through old letters, as well as stories told by Lillian Harrington-Ross.
The Lost Hours is a memorable tale that continues in the wonderful tradition of this author to bring evocative family moments to light. 4.5 stars.
Summary of The Lost Hours
The award-winning author of The Memory of Water delivers a gripping tale of family, fate, and forgiveness.When Piper Mills was twelve, she helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her grandmother in the backyard. For twelve years, it remained untouched.
Now a near fatal riding accident has shattered PiperÂ?s dreams of Olympic glory. After her grandfatherÂ?s death, she inherits the house and all its secrets, including a key to a room that doesnÂ?t existÂ?or does it? And after her grandmother is sent away to a nursing home, she remembers the box buried in the backyard. In it are torn pages from a scrapbook, a charm necklaceÂ?and a newspaper article from 1939 about the body of an infant found floating in the Savannah River. The necklaceÂ?s charms tell the story of three friends during the 1930sÂ? each charm added during the three months each friend had the necklace and recorded her life in the scrapbook. Piper always dismissed her grandmother as not having had a story to tell. And now, too late, Piper finds she might have been wrong.
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