The Bungalow, Sarah Jio
The Bungalow, Sarah Jio
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The Bungalow
A Novel

Author: Sarah Jio

Narrator: Gin Hammond

Unabridged: 8 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/02/2025

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Women

Synopsis

In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fiancé, she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island. Under the thatched roof of an abandoned beach bungalow, the two share a private world-until they witness a gruesome crime, Westry is suddenly redeployed, and the idyll vanishes into the winds of war. A timeless story of enduring passion, The Bungalow chronicles Anne's determination to discover the truth about the twin losses-of life, and of love-that have haunted her for seventy years.

About Sarah Jio

Sarah Jio is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of several novels, including The Bungalow, Blackberry Winter, The Last Camellia, Morning Glory, and The Violets of March, a Library Journal Best Book of 2011.

A magazine writer and the former founding health and fitness blogger for Glamour magazine, Sarah has written thousands of articles and blog posts for national magazines, including O, The Oprah Magazine, Redbook, Marie Claire, Seventeen, Health, Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Woman's Day, American Baby, and Parenting. She has also appeared as a commentator on NPR's Morning Edition, and is a regular contributor to Brides magazine. Sarah lives in Seattle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on August 02, 2011

I wrote it, so I'm allowed to love it, right?! Thank you everyone for reading. Excited to hear what you think of the story! xo......more

Goodreads review by Mary Beth on April 10, 2015

I am so glad that this book was recommended to me. Sarah Jios is an amazing author. Her style of writing is very descriptive with vivid pictures. I could tell from the first two paragraphs that I was going to love this book, dreaming of sandy beaches and coconut palms. "I could hear the waves- their......more

Goodreads review by Deacon Tom on January 29, 2021

Extremely Touching I absolutely loved this book. The backstory of WWII was a strong attachment for me. Next, the love gained and lost filled my heart with a myriad of feelings. Nurses have always been my weak spot and it remains so with this storyline. The way they cared for the troops with such car......more

Goodreads review by Karen on December 12, 2024

Catching up… This is a story of friendship, betrayal and endearing love set in the South Pacific, beginning in the year, 1942. But the book actually starts with a letter 70 years later alluding to a mystery of a tragic murder that occurred in Bora-Bora during the war. In which the character that rece......more

Goodreads review by ♡Karlyn P♡ on February 23, 2012

This was an enjoyable story, but it did require a lot of suspending your disbelief. I enjoyed the 1943 WWII setting in Tahiti, and was mildly intrigued by the suspense built around a murder and other odd events. But this kind of romance is not for me, and despite the possibility of a long awaited HE......more

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