The Outer Banks House, Diann Ducharme
The Outer Banks House, Diann Ducharme
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The Outer Banks House
A Novel

Author: Diann Ducharme

Narrator: Stephanie Einstein

Unabridged: 9 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/11/2020


Synopsis

As the wounds of the Civil War are just beginning to heal, one fateful summer would forever alter the course of a young girl's life.

In 1868, on the barren shores of post-war Outer Banks North Carolina, the once wealthy Sinclair family moves for the summer to one of the first cottages on the ocean side of the resort village of Nags Head. Seventeen-year-old Abigail is beautiful, book-smart, but sheltered by her plantation life and hemmed-in by her emotionally distant family. To make good use of time, she is encouraged by her family to teach her father's fishing guide, the good-natured but penniless Benjamin Whimble, how to read and write. And in a twist of fate unforeseen by anyone around them, there on the porch of the cottage, the two come to love each other deeply, and to understand each other in a way that no one else does.

But when, against everything he claims to represent, Ben becomes entangled in Abby's father's Ku Klux Klan work, the terrible tragedy and surprising revelations that one hot Outer Banks night brings forth threaten to tear them apart forever.

About Diann Ducharme

Diann Ducharme was born in Indiana, but she spent the majority of her childhood in Newport News, Virginia. She majored in English literature at the University of Virginia, but she never wrote creatively until, after the birth of her second child in 2003, she sat down to write The Outer Banks House. Diann and her husband, Sean, have three beach-loving children. The family lives in Manakin-Sabot, Virginia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Katie

Would rate it a 3.75. Wouldn’t recommend this book over other books out there right now. It was easy to read but also easy to put down. Didn’t keep me completely captivated the whole time. I still enjoyed it, though.......more

Goodreads review by Tara

This was a really enjoyable novel rich in North Carolina history. Three years after the end of the American Civil War, Roanoke island is in major disrepair, Cape Haterras is about to be constructed, something sinister is planned for the people living on Freedman's Colony, and Abigail Sinclair is dis......more