Wild Mountain, Nancy Hayes Kilgore
Wild Mountain, Nancy Hayes Kilgore
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Wild Mountain

Author: Nancy Hayes Kilgore

Narrator: Shelagh C. Shapiro

Unabridged: 8 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/19/2019


Synopsis

Vermonter Mona Duval loves the covered bridge beside her store. She loves local history and the rugged, rural nature of her home state. But when an ice storm collapses the bridge, she is bereft. Frank MacFarland, a seasonal resident who is beguiled by Mona, lends his political expertise to help rebuild the bridge. But they meet with powerful opposition. Tensions arise in the town, compounded by resistance to the soon-to-be-voted on Freedom to Marry bill. And then, unexpectedly, Mona's abusive ex-husband arrives. Wild Mountain is a page-turning, beautifully written novel about the love between Frank and Mona, the love of place, freedom to marry, and freedom from the past, by a writer whose prose has been compared to Alice Munro's.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nancy on January 03, 2018

Wild Mountain is set in the mountains of Vermont, a place of uncivilized natural beauty, where generations have come to commune with nature and the gods (and goddesses). The town of Wild Mountain is comprised of folk with deep roots and newcomers attracted to living simply in a beautiful place. It is......more

Goodreads review by Tim on August 20, 2017

This warm-hearted and compulsively readable love story is the perfect accompaniment for summer afternoon or a cozy winter night beside the woodstove. With its wry good humor, deftly painted characters, and vivid rural settings, Wild Mountain captures the essences of life in small-town Vermont.......more

Goodreads review by Katherine on August 19, 2017

Although Vermont is, comparatively, a small State it is quite different geographically and, in light of this book more importantly, very different demographically. While it is impossible to say that people like these don't exist in Vermont, the Subaru van drivers, BMW and Mini Cooper drivers, tend t......more

Goodreads review by Patty on October 05, 2017

This book is at its heart, all about love. The good kind of love that develops between a man and a woman. Then there is the kind of emotion that simmers in a man who has mental health issues. A location can engender very strong feelings of love. Our friends and family fall under the umbrella of love......more

Goodreads review by Katharine on September 25, 2017

Wild Mountain by Nancy Hayes Kilgore is, in part, a love story. Kilgore writes artfully about the uncertainty, excitement, and pain of incipient romance, like that between characters Mona and Frank, and Erica and Jake. And equally well about the less volatile but more satisfying and durable bonds be......more