Safe with Me, Amy Hatvany
Safe with Me, Amy Hatvany
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Safe with Me

Author: Amy Hatvany

Narrator: Joy Osmanski, Cassandra Campbell, Rebekkah Ross

Unabridged: 10 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/04/2014

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Women


Synopsis

A "compelling and thought-provoking" (Kristin Hannah) novel about two mothers and one daughter who are linked by tragedy and bound by secrets, from the acclaimed author of Heart Like Mine.

The screech of tires brought Hannah Scott’s world as she knew it to a devastating end. A year after she signed the papers to donate her daughter’s organs, Hannah is still reeling with grief when she unexpectedly stumbles into the life of the Bell family, whose fifteen-year-old daughter, Maddie, survived only because Hannah’s daughter had died. Mesmerized by this fragile connection to her own daughter and afraid to reveal who she actually is, Hannah develops a surprising friendship with Maddie’s mother, Olivia.

The Bells, however, have problems of their own. Once on the verge of leaving her wealthy but abusive husband, Olivia now finds herself bound to him in the wake of the transplant that saved their daughter’s life. Meanwhile, Maddie, tired of the limits her poor health puts upon her and fearful of her father’s increasing rage, regularly escapes into the one place where she can be anyone she wants: the Internet. But when she is finally healthy enough to return to school, the real world proves to be just as complicated as the isolated bubble she had been so eager to escape.

A masterful narrative shaped by nuanced characters whose delicate bonds are on a collision course with the truth, Safe with Me is a riveting triumph.

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 Judy on March 26, 2017

HATVANY’S “Best of the Best! SAFE WITH MEis an award-winning book, rightly deserving to be at the top of the list as the recipient of Best Fiction of 2014. When I give a 5-star rating, it is due to a number of criteria, with the main one, “not being able to put the book down”. So when you run acros......more

Goodreads review by Brooke on March 07, 2017

SAFE WITH ME is the story of how 3 women connect in times of tragedy. Told in alternating POV's: Hannah, Olivia & Maddie, readers become emotionally invested in their world. (Hatvany does an excellent job of pulling at your emotional strings.) Hannah loses her twelve-year-old daughter, Emily after s......more

Goodreads review by Jülie ☼♄  on April 30, 2014

Safe With Me Thanks to The Reading Room and Allen & Unwin for this first edition copy. Read from April 28 to 30, 2014 I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, for all that it was very sad, it also had some very positive elements which often gave me pause. I loved the author's turn of phrase and how she s......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on November 29, 2013

So lucky to get an ARC of this. As I was crying on page 2, I knew this would be an extremely affecting read. This was hard for me in parts, and I mean that in a most completely complimentary fashion. It felt so true and real, at times it was emotionally difficult to take in. (Maybe because I have da......more

Goodreads review by Dale on December 01, 2017

From the first page I was emotionally involved in this story. I was right there with single parent Hannah, when she hears the scream and finds the body of her twelve year old daughter Emily lying on the road after having been hit by a car. Hannah is called on to make a choice no parent should ever h......more