Mount Vernon Love Story, Mary Higgins Clark
Mount Vernon Love Story, Mary Higgins Clark
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Mount Vernon Love Story
A Novel of George and Martha Washington

Author: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrator: Linda Emond

Unabridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2008


Synopsis

In Mount Vernon Love Story, bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark reveals the flesh-and-blood man who became the "father of our country" in a story that is charming, insightful, and immensely entertaining.

Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of George Washington's mother. Published in 1969, the book was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story. Dispelling the widespread belief that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend's wife, Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of tenderness and passion, as a bond between two people who shared their lives—even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge—in every way. In this author's skilled hands, the history, the love, and the man come fully and dramatically alive.

About Mary Higgins Clark

Suspense author, Mary Higgins Clark has had 51 novels that have been bestsellers in the United States and many other countries, all of which remain in print through 2015. It was through necessity that her career blossomed, but she had always had writing talent and aspirations.

Clark followed a dream in her early career and took time out to be a(at that time) stewardess for PanAm so she could see the world. Just before beginning her exciting new job.....being paid $5 less per week than her secretarial job.......she met William Clark who was so smitten with her that he proposed that she stay in the job for one year, then marry him at the end of that year. And they did just that. The Clarks had five children, and sadly her husband passed away from an extended bout of heart problems in 1964. Also, very sadly, his mother was at his bedside when he died, and she too passed away that very same night.

So, as stated before, out of necessity, Higgins Clark seriously launched her career of writing 51suspense novels with some being adapted to film. She is known as the "Queen of Suspense", she has the ability to serve as a master plotter to slowly create tension for the reader, while giving the appearance that everyone is guilty. Her books feature strong, independent women characters who are the heroines, who are noted for making sensible decisions. Readers tend to identify with these characters as more ordinary people than most novel heroines. Higgins Carter's novels are for adult readers, but because she does not include explicit sex or violence in them, they are also popular with children as young as twelve. Simon & Schuster have published all of Higgins Clark's novels, signed her to a $64 million , four book contract in 1990, and have funded the Mary Higgins Clark Award given to new authors of suspense novels.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelly on July 02, 2013

Loved, loved, loved this book! It's an easy read. I hated to have it end and tried to read it as slowly as possible. I read Glenn Beck's "Being George Washington", which gave an insight into his Professional Life. "Mount Vernon Love Story" gave an insight into Washington's personal life with "Patsy"......more

Goodreads review by Vani on September 20, 2013

The book offers a glimpse into the personal life of General George Washington, the first President of the United States and his wife Patsy. The narrative could have easily drifted onto Washington's professional achievements, and his life as the President of the US, of which he served two terms. Howe......more

Goodreads review by Kris (My Novelesque Life) on September 15, 2014

3 STARS "Always a lover of history, she wrote this biographical novel -- her first book -- and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, which was the family motto of George Washington's mother. With all events, dates, scenes and characters based on historical research, the book was published in 1969. Its rec......more

Goodreads review by Melissa (Semi-hiatus for Work) on June 20, 2019

Rumors have flourished over the years about the true relationship between George and Martha Washington. In Mount Vernon Love Story, Mary Higgins Clark applies extensive historical research to create a fictional account of a love story for the ages. The book includes pictures of various paintings of......more

Goodreads review by Dawn on December 11, 2008

This book is the first book written by Mary Higgins Clark and much different that what people are used to from her. It was a quick read and an enjoyable love story. A very interesting look at the relationship between George & Martha Washington.......more