The Other Side of the Sun, Madeleine LEngle
The Other Side of the Sun, Madeleine LEngle
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The Other Side of the Sun

Author: Madeleine L'Engle

Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman

Unabridged: 13 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 01/30/2018

Synopsis

A young British bride is caught up in her new family’s complicated history in this atmospheric novel set in the American South after the Civil War.When nineteen-year-old Stella marries Theron Renier, she has no idea what kind of clan she’s joined. Soon after their arrival at Illyria, the Reniers’ rambling beachside home, Theron is sent on a diplomatic mission, leaving Stella alone with his family.As she tries to settle into her new life, Stella quickly discovers that the Reniers are not what they seem. Trapped in a world unlike anything she’s ever known, vulnerable Stella attempts to uncover her new family’s dangerous secrets—and stirs up a darkness that was meant to stay buried.From the beloved, National Book Award–winning author of A Wrinkle in Time, The Other Side of the Sun showcases Madeleine L’Engle’s talent for involving and suspenseful storytelling.

About Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L’Engle, the popular author of many books for children and adults, interspersed her writing and teaching career with raising three children, maintaining an apartment in New York and a farmhouse of charming confusion which is called “Crosswicks.”

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julie

I awarded 5 stars because, although this book was picked at total random (I was with my 5 year old niece at the library and she pulled it off the shelf and announced I should read that one), I found it hard to put down. The narrator for most of it is a young English woman, newly married and having t......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer

This book was a bit of a conundrum to me. Having grown up on L'Engle's books I suppose I expected something different. I still got some good writing and intricate descriptions of a post-civil war south. But the titular metaphor was belaboured, the family tree tricky to follow and I found the 'anti-r......more

Goodreads review by Linda

If you want - magical negroes (look it up) - former slaves/descendants practicing some sort of hoodoo in increasingly threatening and stereotypical ways, up to and including rumours of child sacrifices - freed slaves happily staying on with former owners on a plantation/commune where everyone's "equal.......more

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