Two If by Sea, Jacquelyn Mitchard
Two If by Sea, Jacquelyn Mitchard
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Two If by Sea

Author: Jacquelyn Mitchard

Narrator: George Newbern

Unabridged: 12 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/15/2016


Synopsis

From Jacquelyn Mitchard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean, the “suspenseful, otherwordly, and nearly impossible to put down” (People) story about an unlikely hero whose life is transformed when he rescues a boy with an extraordinary gift.

Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami, former police officer Frank Mercy pulls a little boy from a submerged car. Not quite knowing why, Frank doesn’t turn Ian over to the Red Cross. Instead he makes up a story about where the boy came from and takes him home, where Frank realizes that Ian has an otherworldly gift—an extraordinary ability to transform lives beyond anything he’d ever imagined. Awed and confused, Frank confesses Ian’s secret to Claudia, a beautiful champion rider who is training for the Olympics. They join together to fight the sinister forces gathering to take Ian back. In a final confrontation, Frank and Claudia will risk everything—their love, their family, their very lives—to save this boy they now love as their own son.

About Jacquelyn Mitchard

New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard has written many novels for adults, including Two If by Sea. She has also written young adult novels; children’s books; a memoir, Mother Less Child; and a collection of essays, The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship. Her first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was the inaugural selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club, later adapted for a feature film starring and produced by Michelle Pfeiffer. Mitchard is the editor in chief and co-creator of Merit Press and a professor of fiction and creative nonfiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband and their nine children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maggie

What did I...what the hell... WHAT DID I JUST READ? This book is a mess. It's all over the place, it reads like a first draft, and seriously I am furious with myself for sticking with it until the end. IT DOES NOT DESERVE THAT KIND OF TIME AND CONSIDERATION. This was sort of a wild card read for me -......more

I love magical realism when done well. And it certainly was done very well here! I'm going to make my way through this author's other novels.......more

Goodreads review by Mellena

I got this from my local library, which is good, as I found it difficult to finish, which I did do. This wasn't a page-turner for me; I put it down, picked it up, left it for a week and finally rushed through the end just to see if there was a decent resolution to the plot lines. I'd have to say a r......more