Bygones, LaVyrle Spencer
Bygones, LaVyrle Spencer
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Bygones

Author: LaVyrle Spencer

Narrator: Emily Sutton-Smith

Unabridged: 12 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/13/2021

Synopsis

Bess Curran, forty, is an interior designer in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, still lonely and bitter after her traumatic divorce six years earlier. Her adult daughter, Lisa, anxious for her parents to reconcile, arranges a surprise dinner meeting where she informs them that she is pregnant and about to marry. Bess and former husband Michael (he left her for another woman, who, in turn, has just left him) can barely control their mutual animosity yet must come to grips with the startling news. To exacerbate matters, their nineteen-year-old son, Randy, is intractably hostile toward his father and seems headed for a future of drugs and unsavory companions. Bess and Michael are attracted to each other but wary—they're suffering and groping for help.

About LaVyrle Spencer

LaVyrle Spencer is a contemporary and historical romance novelist who has written twelve New York Times bestsellers. Whether set in the Old West or in present day suburban Minnesota, a Spencer novel means seeing love in a new light and meeting characters so real it's all you can do not to climb into the pages yourself. Several of Spencer's books have been made into movies (Publishers Weekly called one of her television deals "precedent-setting") and in 1988 she was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. She lives with her husband, Dan, in North Oaks, Minnesota.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tmstprc on August 19, 2021

My first thought as I started reading… oh boy, this is dated. But, it’s really a snapshot in time. A snapshot of 1990 with all the cultural references that firmly grounds the story in what now feels like a different time. The main characters are baby boomers, just starting middle age. They’ve been di......more

Goodreads review by Jan on August 11, 2019

Reread Aug 2019. It's a few years since I've read this one. In spite of the 1980s feel, it still holds up well. Every time I read a book by LaVyrle Spencer I am in awe of her writing skills. Her books are beautiful, emotional, with very real characters and a strong sense of time and place. And I lov......more

Goodreads review by Mallorie on March 20, 2019

This book was just too boring for me it was so easy to put down and hard to pick back up. I just couldn't keep reading this book and had to dnf it. I don't think I'll be reading any other books by this author.......more

Goodreads review by Aizel on September 24, 2012

once again LaVyrle Spencer capture my heart to this wonderful story of Bess and Michael.The story is about the how mean a divorce can be to a family and the regrets how a wonderful marriage ends and most important( at least for me) that in divorce both parties have their own faults.......more

Goodreads review by Ruth on July 21, 2012

Enjoy Lavyrle Spencer! Read her books when they first came out, and I'm going back to all of them again. They hold up so well...My biggest regret is that she retired! I first read this a few years ago and still have trouble putting it down (even on the re-reads!) I appreciate the storyline here (whe......more

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