

The Whistling Season
Author: Ivan Doig
Series: Whistling Season #1
Narrator: Jonathan Hogan
Unabridged: 11 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 11/09/2006
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Synopsis
In 1909, struggling to farm his remote homestead and raise three sons, widower Oliver Milliron desperately needs help. A housekeeper’s ad in a Milwaukee newspaper, “Can’t cook but doesn’t bite,” leads him to hire her sight unseen.
When perky Rose Llewellyn arrives, she brings along her brainy brother, Morris.
Though Rose whistles through her work at the Milliron house, and Morris becomes teacher at the one-room school, these two newcomers conceal a past that is colorful and infamous.
Told through the eyes of Oliver’s 13-year-old son, The Whistling Season is filled with humor, hardship, and surprising moments of discovery.
“The Whistling Season is a book to pass on to your favorite readers: a story of lives of active choice, lived actively.”—Publishers Weekly