Outside the Lines, Amy Hatvany
Outside the Lines, Amy Hatvany
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Outside the Lines

Author: Amy Hatvany

Narrator: Candace Thaxton, Corey Brill

Unabridged: 10 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/10/2013


Synopsis

A gripping novel about a woman who sets out to find the father who left her years ago, and ends up discovering herself.

When Eden was ten years old she found her father, David, bleeding on the bathroom floor. The suicide attempt led to her parents’ divorce, and David all but vanished from Eden’s life. 

Twenty years later, Eden runs a successful catering company and dreams of opening a restaurant. Since childhood, she has heard from her father only rarely, just enough to know that he’s been living on the streets and struggling with mental illness. But lately there has been no word at all. After a series of failed romantic relationships and a health scare from her mother, Eden decides it’s time to find her father, to forgive him at last, and move forward with her own life. Her search takes her to a downtown Seattle homeless shelter, and to Jack Baker, its handsome and charming director. Jack convinces Eden to volunteer her skills as a professional chef with the shelter. In return, he helps her in her quest. 

As the connection between Eden and Jack grows stronger, and their investigation brings them closer to David, Eden must come to terms with her true emotions, the secrets her mother has kept from her, and the painful question of whether her father, after all these years, even wants to be found. The result is an emotionally rich and honest novel about making peace with the past—and embracing the future.

About Amy Hatvany

Amy Hatvany is the author of nine novels, including It Happens All the Time, Somewhere Out There, and A Casual Encounter. She lives in Seattle, Washington with her family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Patricia on May 15, 2023

This was a very interesting book about mental illness. The story is about a family where the father has the mental illness and can't live with his wife and daughter and the daughter spends many years searching for him when she becomes an adult and finds him. The wife tried to keep him on his medicai......more

Goodreads review by Ann on February 07, 2012

As children we search for absolutes, black or white, but no gray. But most of our lives are spent in the gray area, and we soon learn to search out our own truths with compassion and tolerance. “Outside The Lines” is one of the most compassionate, honest books I’ve read in a long time. Amy Hatvany t......more

Goodreads review by Celeste Noelani on June 05, 2012

Ultimately disappointing. The premise is solid and exciting, and Amy Hatvany clearly has the chops to tackle this subject matter; she handles the characters of David and young Eden with beauty and grace. The treatment of present day Eden, however, feels like it belongs in a completely different book......more

Goodreads review by Shelleyrae on February 05, 2012

With it's intimate portrait of mental illness, Outside The Lines is a compelling and thought provoking novel. Eden was just ten when she last saw her father. Her childhood was marred by his strange behaviour as he battled an undiagnosed mental illness, refusing the medication that stabilised his moo......more

Goodreads review by Brooke on February 24, 2017

This was absolutely heartbreaking; OUTSIDE THE LINES is an intimate insight into the complexities of father/daughter relationships, particularly when said parent is mentally ill. Hatvany touches upon the ups & downs of enduring this- sometimes gentle, always frank, this destroyed me emotionally. But......more