Wonderland Creek, Lynn Austin
Wonderland Creek, Lynn Austin
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Wonderland Creek

Author: Lynn Austin

Narrator: Kate Forbes

Unabridged: 15 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/03/2012


Synopsis

I was perfectly content with my life—that is, until the pages of my story were ripped out before I had a chance to live happily ever after.

Alice Grace Ripley lives in a dream world, her nose stuck in a book. But the happily-ever-after life she's planned on suddenly falls apart when her boyfriend breaks up with her, accusing her of living in a world of fiction instead of the real one. To top it off, Alice loses her beloved library job because of cutbacks due to the Great Depression.

Longing to run from small-town gossip, Alice flees to the mountains of eastern Kentucky to deliver five boxes of donated books to the tiny coal-mining town of Acorn, a place with no running water, no electricity, and where the librarians ride ornery horses up steep mountain passes to deliver books. When Alice is forced to stay in Acorn far longer than she planned, she discovers that real-life adventure, mystery—and especially romance—may be far better than her humble dreams could have imagined.

About Lynn Austin

Lynn Austin has sold more than 1.5 million copies of her books worldwide. A former teacher who now writes and speaks full-time, she has won eight Christy Awards for her historical fiction. One of those novels, Hidden Places, has also been made into an Original Hallmark Channel movie. Lynn and her husband have raised three children and make their home in western Michigan.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on May 15, 2016

This review is shockingly late. I'm sorry friends. The truth is, I don't know WHAT to say about this book. It was so surreal, so fantastical, so beautiful, so...I just don't know. I don't know how to explain this book, I don't think it's even possible (I shouldn't even be allowed to review it, becau......more

Goodreads review by Kav on December 03, 2011

How's this for an opening line: "If my life was a book, no one would read it." Told in first-person, Alice goes on to prove herself wrong in this funny and poignant and completely spell-binding story. I bonded with Alice on the very first page -- I mean how could I resist a passionate bibliophile wi......more

Goodreads review by Ed on April 06, 2020

A Really exciting read. If a person reading this book does not have tears and laughs reading it, then they need to stick a pin in them to see if they are still alive.......more

Goodreads review by Katie on September 08, 2017

"If my life were a book, no one would read it. People would say it was too boring, too predictable." Right from that very first line, I felt myself identify with Alice. I look at myself at times and wonder what I've accomplished in my life. Like Alice, I often find my nose in a book and love to esc......more

Goodreads review by MK ( MaKayla) on May 01, 2023

As usual words seem to fail me when I want to gush about how much I love a book . It's a whole lot of arm flailing , crying , and book hugging . This book will always dear to me . It pierced my soul in a way I was not expecting . It left me feeling convicted , like a dear friend had taken my hands a......more