Queen Of Broken Hearts, Cassandra King
Queen Of Broken Hearts, Cassandra King
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Queen Of Broken Hearts

Author: Cassandra King

Narrator: Cassandra King

Abridged: 5 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/06/2007


Synopsis

The national bestselling author of The Same Sweet Girls and The Sunday Wife returns with another compulsively readable novel

It's not easy being the Queen of Broken Hearts. Just ask Clare, who has willingly assumed the mantle while her career as a divorce coach thrives. Now she's preparing to open a permanent home for the retreats she leads, on a slice of breathtaking property on the Alabama coast owned by her mother-in-law. Make that former mother-in-law, a colorful eccentric who teaches Clare much about love and sacrifice and living freely. When Clare's marriage ends in tragedy, her work becomes the sole focus of her life. While Clare has no problem helping the hundreds of men and women who seek her advice to mend their broken hearts, healing her own is another matter entirely. Falling in love again is the last thing she wants.

So when Lex -- a charismatic, charming, burly sea captain -- moves to town to run the marina, Clare insists they remain friends and nothing more. But even though she fights it, she begins to fall for him -- and then finds she has a rival, his estranged wife Annalee.

A story infused with all the flavors, textures, and intrigues of a small Southern town, with a rich, resonant center, Queen of Broken Hearts is a bold step forward for Cassandra King.

About Cassandra King

Cassandra King is an award-winning author of five bestselling novels and two nonfiction books in addition to numerous short stories, essays, and magazine articles. Her latest book, Tell Me A Story, a memoir about life with her late husband, Pat Conroy, was named SIBA’s 2020 non-fiction Book of the Year. A native of LA (Lower Alabama), Cassandra resides in Beaufort, South Carolina, where she is honorary chair of the Pat Conroy Literary Center.When Pat gave Dottie Frank a blurb for her first book, Sullivan’s Island, Cassandra invited Dottie for a visit to Fripp Island, and the Conroys and Franks became fast friends. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vicky on May 24, 2011

"Queen of Broken Hearts" by Cassandra King is one of the best books I've read in a long time. It is poignant, uplifting, tear-jerking and insightful. When I opened the book to the first page, my heart plummeted. First person point of view – not my favorite. And I'd just finished another review book......more

Goodreads review by Shelleyrae on May 14, 2010

You need to read this in the garden with an iced tea or mint julep to sip on. The language is evocotive of Southern society and the environment and it flows with description and dialogue. The pace can feel a bit slow unless you have the time to enjoy it - its not a quick read. There is a huge cast o......more

Goodreads review by Jayne on November 09, 2020

I’ve been wanting to read something by Pat Conroy’s widow, Cassandra King, for a while, and I found this one at the used bookstore, so I grabbed it. Like Conroy, King writes about the ups and downs of relationships, and weaves a very good story. It would be unfair to compare her to Conroy, she was a......more

Goodreads review by Agatha on September 04, 2007

Picked this one up because one of those what-to-read-next algorithms recommended King's The Same Sweet Girls to me and that one's always out at the library; I didn't know beforehand that King was married to Pat Conroy, who has his flaws as a writer but who I will also defend to the death, because I......more

Goodreads review by Russell on March 05, 2016

I approached Cassandra King’s Queen of Broken Hearts with so much raw anticipation. I had just finished and loved King’s The Sunday Wife. I was eager to get caught up her in lovely prose and finely wrought characters again. In that respect, Queen of Broken Hearts does not disappoint. The novel is th......more