The Edge of the Earth, Christina Schwarz
The Edge of the Earth, Christina Schwarz
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The Edge of the Earth

Author: Christina Schwarz

Narrator: Candace Thaxton

Unabridged: 8 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/02/2013


Synopsis

From the author of Drowning Ruth, a haunting, atmospheric novel set at the closing of the frontier about a young wife who moves to a far-flung and forbidding lighthouse where she uncovers a life-changing secret.

In 1898, a woman forsakes the comfort of home and family for a love that takes her to a remote lighthouse on the wild coast of California. What she finds at the edge of the earth, hidden between the sea and the fog, will change her life irrevocably.

Trudy, who can argue Kant over dinner and play a respectable portion of Mozart’s Serenade in G major, has been raised to marry her childhood friend and assume a life of bourgeois comfort in Milwaukee. She knows she should be pleased, but she’s restless instead, yearning for something she lacks even the vocabulary to articulate. When she falls in love with enigmatic and ambitious Oskar, she believes she’s found her escape from the banality of her preordained life.

But escape turns out to be more fraught than Trudy had imagined. Alienated from family and friends, the couple moves across the country to take a job at a lighthouse at Point Lucia, California—an unnervingly isolated outcropping, trapped between the ocean and hundreds of miles of inaccessible wilderness. There they meet the light station’s only inhabitants—the formidable and guarded Crawleys. In this unfamiliar place, Trudy will find that nothing is as she might have predicted, especially after she discovers what hides among the rocks.

Gorgeously detailed, swiftly paced, and anchored in the dramatic geography of the remote and eternally mesmerizing Big Sur, The Edge of the Earth is a magical story of secrets and self-transformation, ruses and rebirths. Christina Schwarz, celebrated for her rich evocation of place and vivid, unpredictable characters, has spun another haunting and unforgettable tale.

About Christina Schwarz

Christina Schwarz is the author of five novels, including The Edge of the Earth and the Oprah Book Club selection Drowning Ruth. Born and raised in rural Wisconsin, she lives in southern California.


Reviews

The book jacket synopsis hints at danger in a remote location, not just from the elements but an unexpected presence hiding in the wilderness. But this is so much more than a thriller based on isolation and the fear of the unknown. Trudy is a highly educated woman, able to argue philosophy (Kant, an......more

Goodreads review by Paul

Anyone that knows my preferences in reading material would never dare suggest this book as one for me to read. Sometimes the bad decisions we make, lead to discoveries we didn't know about ourselves. Trudy is a young well-educated lady living in Wisconsin in 1898. Her life is pretty well pre-planed in......more

Goodreads review by Carla

I have been a fan of Christina Schwarz since reading Drowning Ruth, so I was excited to receive an Advance Reader's Copy of her upcoming novel, The Edge of the Earth. Ms. Schwarz has a flair for her vivid descriptions of her novel's locations-in this case a remote lighthouse on the California Pacifi......more