

The Winters in Bloom
Author: Lisa Tucker
Narrator: Joyce Bean
Unabridged: 8 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 09/13/2011
Author: Lisa Tucker
Narrator: Joyce Bean
Unabridged: 8 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 09/13/2011
Lisa Tucker is the author of The Song Reader and Shout Down the Moon; she has also published short work in Seventeen, Pages, and The Oxford American. She has advanced degrees in English and math, and has taught creative writing at the Taos Conference and UCLA. Lisa lives in Pennsylvania and New Mexico with her husband and son.
I found this book mostly rather uninteresting. The story of the Winter family - Kyra, David and their son, Michael, is meant to be an uplifting tale of the importance of risk and trust and I imagine some other points that I missed, but it ends up just mostly being a slog. We get the whole annoying b......more
When I picked up The Winters in Bloom by Lisa Tucker I was definitely in the mood for some family drama reading. I got chills with the opening section and felt immediately connected to this small, 5-year old child named Michael. Then, he was whisked away and the story began to unfold. The Winters in......more
Kyra and David Winter are both super cautious people because of their painful pasts. Both fear they don't deserve the happiness they currently have and that it will not last. Their worse fears are confirmed when their five year old son Michael disappears from their yard in the middle of the afternoo......more