Burnt Mountain, Anne Rivers Siddons
Burnt Mountain, Anne Rivers Siddons
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Burnt Mountain

Author: Anne Rivers Siddons

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 9 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/19/2011


Synopsis

From one of our most acclaimed writers comes this dramatic tale of a well-born Southern woman whose life is forever changed by the betrayal of her mother and by the man she loves.

Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp - Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her first love...and first heartbreak. Years later, Thayer marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and they move into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, only miles from Camp Edgewood on Burnt Mountain where her father died years ago in a car accident. There, Aengus and Thayer lead quiet and happy lives until Aengus is invited up to the camp to tell old Irish tales to the campers. As Aengus spends less time at home and becomes more distant, Thayer must confront dark secrets-about her mother, her first love, and, most devastating of all, her husband.

About Anne Rivers Siddons

Anne Rivers Siddons is the New York Times bestselling author of 19 novels that include Nora, Nora, Sweetwater Creek, Islands, Peachtree Road, and Outer Banks. She is also the author of the nonfiction work John Chancellor Makes Me Cry.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura on August 05, 2012

This book is so bad, it's funny. Therefore, it gets 2 stars instead of one. I couldn't even place what period of time in which this book was occurring since the author can't seem to get her history straight. Okay, so Thayer goes to summer camp and meets her first love, but her Southern Genteel Mother......more

Goodreads review by Suzy on April 02, 2012

I have liked most Anne Rivers Siddons books. I feel a little stupid, since there were sooo many bad reviews for this book and I liked it. (rather like when I was the only person in the western hemisphere who thought that Forrest Gump was the stupidest book I had ever read-and was a stupid movie as w......more

Goodreads review by Tyra on November 13, 2011

This book did not receive good marks by the Goodreads reviewers and I must agree that this was not one of Siddons' better works. Siddons is a gifted writer and out of the 17 best-sellers listed in the front matter of this book, I've read six of them. Poetic style like "I twirled around three times o......more

Goodreads review by Christina on August 28, 2011

I haven't read an Anne Rivers Siddons book since "Outer Banks," but upon realizing she wrote a new book, I picked this one up from my local library. I found the beginning to be quite slow, but by the middle I was definitely attached to Thayer's camp experience and her relationships with her grandmot......more

Goodreads review by Doreen on September 29, 2011

I'm so disappointed. I've never read this author's work, but know that others have enjoyed her stories. Unfortunately, this book did not make me a fan. The first 250 pages or so are fine. I was enjoying the story, relating to the jealous, distant mother and the tomboy who was her daughter. Young sum......more