

A Dangerous Woman
Author: Mary McGarry Morris
Narrator: Ruth Ann Phimister
Unabridged: 14 hr 20 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 10/28/2011
Categories: Fiction
Author: Mary McGarry Morris
Narrator: Ruth Ann Phimister
Unabridged: 14 hr 20 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 10/28/2011
Categories: Fiction
Mary McGarry Morris is the author of Vanished, a finalist for the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award; A Dangerous Woman, which was chosen by Time magazine as one of the five best novels of the year; Songs in Ordinary Time, an Oprah Book Club Selection and national bestseller; and the critically acclaimed Fiona Range and A Hole in the Universe. She lives in Andover, Massachusetts.
Picked this gem up at a second hand book shop in Madrid on Sunday, I read it in two days. Don't you love books like that? Where you gotta finish or you'll die? It was tragic, fabulous and engaging. The kind of book that makes you think you too, are mentally ill. Also the kind of book that makes you......more
Martha Horgan isn't like anyone else. She isn't like anyone she knows or like anyone the people who know her know. She isn't like anyone else you're likely to read about. What's wrong with her? Autism? Maybe, in part. Dissociation? Whatever that means. She develops violent hatreds that can't be chang......more
This is a heartbreaking story that I couldn't put down and have never forgotten.........more
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This is a compelling book which is at times difficult to read. Marja Hogan is "different" (probably Asburgers) and she has been teased and tormented all her life. She desperately wants a normal life, but her blunt honesty and clinging relationships cause nothing but trouble to herself and everyone w......more