The Sound of Glass, Karen White
The Sound of Glass, Karen White
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The Sound of Glass

Author: Karen White

Narrator: Susan Bennett, Thérèse Plummer

Unabridged: 14 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/12/2015

Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling author of A Long Time Gone now explores a Southern family's buried history, which will change the life of the woman who unearths it, secret by shattering secret. It has been two years since the death of Merritt Heyward's husband, Cal, when she receives unexpected news-Cal's family home in Beaufort, South Carolina, bequeathed by Cal's reclusive grandmother, now belongs to Merritt. Charting the course of an uncertain life-and feeling guilt from her husband's tragic death-Merritt travels from her home in Maine to Beaufort, where the secrets of Cal's unspoken-of past reside among the pluff mud and jasmine of the ancestral Heyward home on the Bluff. This unknown legacy, now Merritt's, will change and define her as she navigates her new life-a new life complicated by the arrival of her too young stepmother and ten-year-old half-brother. Soon, in this house of strangers, Merritt is forced into unraveling the Heyward family past as she faces her own fears and finds the healing she needs in the salt air of the Low Country.

About Karen White

Karen White has been narrating audiobooks since 1999, with more than two hundred to her credit. Honored to be included in AudioFile's Best Voices and Speaking of Audiobooks's Best Romance Audio 2012 and 2013, she is also an Audie Award finalist and has earned multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and Library Journal starred reviews. She currently lives with her family in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Publishers Weekly says of Karen's narration of Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick, "Karen White delivers a stunning reading, her character interpretations are confident and well-rounded, and she forges a strong bond with the audience."

Speaking of Audiobooks says, "Karen is one of my auto-buy narrators-if I think a book may interest me, her narration will sway me to give it a try."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carmen on May 17, 2015

The Sound of Glass Karen White quite simply never gets it wrong. Storytelling seems to be as natural and breathing air to her and I for one will never miss a book she puts out. The Sound of Glass of one of her best. The book blurb does a great job of explaining what the book is about so I won't reca......more

Goodreads review by Diana on May 24, 2016

This is the first book by Karen White that I've read, and you'll have to excuse me while I gush over it. Wow! The story and characters were outstanding, and they pulled me in right away. Merritt is a widow, and she inherits her late husband's grandmother's home in Beaufort, South Carolina. There are......more

Goodreads review by Esil on May 15, 2015

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an opportunity to read an advance copy of The Sound of Glass. Three strangers with interconnected secrets come together in an old mansion in South Carolina. They all live under unresolved dark clouds which slowly get cleared up as the story progresses. I......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews on February 13, 2017

Southern families and families with secrets. After her husband died, Merritt le​ft their home in Maine and headed to South Carolina to Cal's grandmother's home​ that she ​had inherited​. Little did ​Merritt know that ​her husband, Cal, never told anyone about her, and she didn't know anything about h......more

Goodreads review by Chris on June 15, 2024

This story takes place in the low country of SC(a favorite vacation spot of mine), the author captures the southern setting beautifully. Merrit who is widowed and lives in Maine inherits a house in Beaufort SC that belonged to her husband’s family, she gets down there and her estranged step mother L......more

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