If You Walked in My Shoes, Gwynne Forster
If You Walked in My Shoes, Gwynne Forster
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If You Walked in My Shoes

Author: Gwynne Forster

Narrator: Sharon Washington

Unabridged: 12 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/05/2008

Categories: Fiction, Romance


Synopsis

A Black Writers Alliance Gold Pen Award winner, Gwynne Forster has penned such best-selling novels as Blues from Down Deep (F0121). She is praised for her tales of personal struggles and romance. Coreen Treadwell heads a prominent social welfare agency, but she is haunted by her past. Raped and impregnated as a teenager, she gave up her baby without ever seeing her. Now the legacy of violence continues in her daughter's life. Abused by her adoptive father, the young woman has vowed vengeance on Coreen for abandoning her.

About Gwynne Forster

Gwynne Forster was an award-winning, nationally bestselling author of numerous novels, including Whatever It Takes, When the Sun Goes Down, and the Harringtons series. She was also a demographer and former senior United Nations Officer, in which capacities she traveled the world.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Aone

So I finally finished this book, after putting it back on my shelf for a long time. It was very slow read for me and rather boring, however I really did want to finish it. I was expecting a little more of a show from Freida as she revealed her indentity to her birth mother. She did all of that plott......more

Wow. I thoroughly enjoyed this book from beginning to end. Would love to see it on the big screen. Such a relevant book, and the author reaches really deep into such a complex and heart wrenching subject. A must read.......more

Goodreads review by Nancy

I was attracted to the book, because Corrine was a social worker, who had been raped as a teenager, and gave her baby up for adoption. I am a former social worker. Corrine had her baby in her mean aunts house. She never saw the baby, and left the house after the birth. There is no explanation of her......more