The Woman in the Photo, Mary Hogan
The Woman in the Photo, Mary Hogan
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The Woman in the Photo
A Novel

Author: Mary Hogan

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert, Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 10 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/14/2016


Synopsis

In this compulsively-readable historical novel, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Two Sisters, comes the story of two young women—one in America’s Gilded Age, one in scrappy modern-day California—whose lives are linked by a single tragic afternoon in history.1888: Elizabeth Haberlin, of the Pittsburgh Haberlins, spends every summer with her family on a beautiful lake in an exclusive club. Nestled in the Allegheny Mountains above the working class community of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the private retreat is patronized by society’s elite. Elizabeth summers with Carnegies, Mellons, and Fricks, following the rigid etiquette of her class. But Elizabeth is blessed (cursed) with a mind of her own. Case in point: her friendship with Eugene Eggar, a Johnstown steel mill worker. And when Elizabeth discovers that the club’s poorly maintained dam is about to burst and send 20 million tons of water careening down the mountain, she risks all to warn Eugene and the townspeople in the lake’s deadly shadow.Present day: On her eighteenth birthday, genetic information from Lee Parker’s closed adoption is unlocked. She also sees an old photograph of a genetic relative—a 19th Century woman with hair and eyes likes hers—standing in a pile of rubble from an ecological disaster next to none other than Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross. Determined to identify the woman in the photo and unearth the mystery of that captured moment, Lee digs into history. Her journey takes her from California to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, from her present financial woes to her past of privilege, from the daily grind to an epic disaster. Once Lee’s heroic DNA is revealed, will she decide to forge a new fate?

About Mary Hogan

 Mary Hogan is the bestselling author of Two Sisters and the historical novel, The Woman in the Photo. Previous novels include the young adult titles, The Serious Kiss, Perfect Girl and Pretty Face (HarperCollins). Mary lives in New York City with her husband, actor Robert Hogan, and their Catahoula Leopard rescue dog, Lucy. maryhogan.com


Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela M on October 01, 2016

I felt connected to the two characters focused on in the alternating narratives. In the 1888 -1889 time frame, Elizabeth Haberlin from a well to do family, part of the circle of famous rich people of the day - the Fricks, the Carnegies, proves to be her own person as she is not ready to conform to t......more

Goodreads review by Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede on April 27, 2018

This is the first historical fiction I have read that deals with the flooding of Johnstown on May 31st, 1889. This is a very dramatic and tragic aspect of the book and one of the reasons I liked the book so much was just the fact that it really moved me. But, I'm getting ahead in the story. We are fi......more

Goodreads review by Meg - A Bookish Affair on June 16, 2016

"The Woman in the Photo" is set in two time periods. Elizabeth, living in the late 1800s, is lucky enough to be among the wealthy set of those who come to vacation in Johnstown, PA. She rubs elbows with the likes of the Carnegies and the Fricks among other titans of energy. When a tragic flood decim......more

Goodreads review by Ann on May 29, 2017

This is a double story. In 1888 Pennsylvania (told in first person) Elizabeth Haberlin, the spoiled, selfish daughter of a wealthy physician, vacations with her family at an exclusive resort in the Allegheny Mountains. She flirts with an Englishman and slowly becomes acquainted with--and sympathetic......more

Goodreads review by Stacy on July 10, 2017

This was another, "I'm bored and need something to occupy myself while I spend 17 hours in the car on the way to Utah." A photograph bridges the lives of two young women living decades apart. Written around the events of the Johnstown Flood, a real life disaster, and involving the actual participant......more