Perfect Family, Pam Lewis
Perfect Family, Pam Lewis
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Perfect Family

Author: Pam Lewis

Narrator: Richard Poe

Unabridged: 9 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/09/2008


Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of Speak Softly, She Can Hear, a literary page-turner about a proper New England family and the dark secrets that undo them. Pony Carteret -- the lovely headstrong youngest member of the Carteret family -- has always been a strong swimmer. So when she is discovered drowned at the family's summer home on Lake Aral, Vermont, her red hair tangled in an anchor chain and her baby abandoned on shore, her family is stunned by disbelief. As the police conduct their investigation, Jasper Carteret, the patriarch, calls an urgent family meeting. Had any of her siblings known that Pony would be at the house that day? Was she having personal problems, was she depressed? Had she ever revealed the true identity of her baby's father? Neither sister -- Tinker, the family caretaker, nor Mira, the moody, thoughtful one -- has any information, and ultimately the police rule the drowning an accident. But William Carteret, Pony's older brother, can't accept the explanation that his favorite sister's death was an accident. Determined to uncover the truth, he eventually learns the disturbing fact that a stranger had been present at the house the evening Pony died. Who was this man, what was he doing at the house, and why hasn't he stepped forward? As William digs deeper, his investigations quickly lead him to a new and more daunting series of questions, not only about the mysteries in Pony's life but also about the shadowy details of his deceased mother's past and even his own. Before long, he has opened a Pandora's box of family secrets, including one dangerous fact his mother has kept hidden for a generation. Pam Lewis's Perfect Family is a masterful, atmospheric tale about the ways in which family secrets, no matter how long they're buried, can wield their tremendous power.

About Pam Lewis

Pam Lewis lives in Storrs, Connecticut, with her explorer-adventurer husband, Rob Funk. She went to Stanford University, and married immediately after college. While raising two boys, she worked at a motley assortment of jobs, including writing marketing copy for insurance companies. During this time she wrote fiction furiously every morning, more for pleasure and therapy than with an eye to publication, and was therefore surprised when her writing was finally published.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen

this is a super-low three. will someone tell me why i do it?? i have thousands of unread books here. thousands. and i choose to read a book from an author whose first book was eh. and why do i own it in hardcover?? why am i so impetuous?? why not choose a book from someone whose track record is bett......more

"He envied them over there, the Nicelys, the Garners, the Wrights, and their neighbors, for the long slow afternoons filled with late light and the lazy wane of day". Perfect Family by Pam Lewis "and everything-the house, the lawn, the shore, and half the lake-was in shadow. A stiff wind was kicking......more

Goodreads review by Doreen

Excellent book! This book is a murder mystery, but it's more about family; its hierarchy, secrets, and alliances. It held my interest throughout the entire book. The story begins with a drowning. An innocent baby is left motherless after the drowning and this baby's existence figures heavily into th......more