The Mountain, Helen Bryan
The Mountain, Helen Bryan
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The Mountain

Author: Helen Bryan

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 13 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/04/2018

Synopsis

From Helen Bryan, bestselling author of War Brides, The Sisterhood, and The Valley, comes the second book in an epic trilogy told from multiple viewpoints—a story about the resilience, bravery, love, and unity that formed the foundation of the New World.The frontier of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1783. In the years since the first settlers arrived, looking to build new lives, the township of Grafton has flourished. Together, European immigrants, Native Americans, indentured servants, and former slaves have established a tight-knit community.As time passes and America becomes a nation, Grafton is swept up in the tumult of the outside world. The Cherokees are rounded up and driven west. The Civil War leaves a long shadow. Newcomers make their mark, fortunes are won and lost, and loyalties are tested in the march of history.

About Helen Bryan

Helen Bryan is a Virginia native who grew up in Tennessee. After graduating from Barnard College, she moved to England, where she studied law and was a barrister for ten years before devoting herself to writing full-time.A member of the Inner Temple, Bryan is the author of four previous books: the World War II novel War Brides; the historical novel The Sisterhood; the biography Martha Washington: First Lady of Liberty, which won an Award of Merit from the Colonial Dames of America; and the legal handbook Planning Applications and Appeals. The Mountain is the second book in a trilogy, following The Valley, based on Bryan’s childhood stories of ancestors who settled in Virginia and Maryland before Tennessee became a state.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathleen on September 06, 2018

Sigh. Although you get a good dose of early American history, there are a lot of characters. So many that the oomph of the story gets lost in the crowd. That said, it's a good setting and Bryan clearly knows her stuff. I thought that the first book needed a strong editor to pare things away and it's......more

Goodreads review by Colleen King on October 13, 2018

Wonderful This is a wonderful book....written as close to "how it really was" as I've read The only thing that stopped me from giving it the 5 star it deserves is the amount of characters in the book and their relationship to each other. A community "tree" at the beginning to refer to would have been......more

Goodreads review by Morris-Ken on December 07, 2020

I have learned so much I have really enjoyed this series of a beautiful well written book. I like how the first book and the people loved together after escaping a.c.traveling to find d that she had inherited not what she had expected and made the best of it. This book is the continuation of the live......more

Goodreads review by Michell Oldfather on July 12, 2019

While I like the story overall and the time period the jumps in time make this confusing. There are so many characters (which I do find them all interesting) to keep track of that when the story jumps ahead I had a hard time remembering who was related to whom. I think this book could have been expa......more

Goodreads review by April on January 12, 2024

I liked the first book in the trilogy better than this second book. There are so many characters to keep track of and years go by and they have children and grandchildren that makes it even harder. I do enjoy reading of the struggles the early pioneers had to overcome, yet as busy as they were just......more

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