The Father She Went to Find, Carter Wilson
The Father She Went to Find, Carter Wilson
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The Father She Went to Find

Author: Carter Wilson

Narrator: Gina Rogers

Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/02/2024


Synopsis

Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That’s par for the course when you’re a savant—one of less than one hundred in the world. But despite her photographic memory and super-powered intellect, there’s one question Penny doesn’t know the answer to: where did her father go when he left her and her mother years ago? On Penny’s 21st birthday, she receives a card in the mail from her father, just as she has every year since he left. But this birthday card is different. For the first time ever, there’s a return address. Penny may not know much about the world beyond The Institute, the special school she has attended since her abilities became clear, but now seems like the perfect time to break free of her safe existence and start to really live. What she doesn’t realize is that the real world is more complicated and dangerous than she ever imagined...

About Carter Wilson

Carter Wilson is the USA Today and #1 Denver Post bestselling author of six critically acclaimed standalone psychological thrillers, as well as numerous short stories. An ITW Thriller Award finalist and a four-time winner of the Colorado Book Award, he has been honored by multiple starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal. He lives in Erie, Colorado, in a Victorian house that is spooky but isn't haunted... yet. For more information, visit CarterWilson.com.

About Gina Rogers

Gina Rogers was asked to narrate her first audiobook in 2014 after an author overheard her imitating her mother's New York accent at a dinner party. While she swears her background in musical theater and television acting has in no way prepared her to speak in accents and dialects, her ability to breathe life into characters has taken her a long way in her career as an audiobook narrator.


Reviews

The writing is so good! It’s gripping and thrilling! It seems like the characters are unreliable but you can rely on their unreliability to give you the best thrilling experience of reading a thriller. Now how many thriller thrilling did I just mentioned in a few secs?! The plot may seem like you wil......more


Quotes

"When she was seven, Penny’s mother threw her down a flight of stairs, sending her into a coma. When she awakes, she finds that she has developed special abilities . . . [Narrator Gina Rogers] ably handles moments of high action while sensitively portraying Penny’s coming of age." –Library Journal

Wilson punches up Penny's anything-can-happen adventures with a deadpan first-person narrative that pares its cast of characters to the absolute minimum and relies on sentences and paragraphs and chapters as short, and about as reassuring, as hiccups. Fasten your seat belt. This is one wild ride.