Home Before Dark, Susan Wiggs
Home Before Dark, Susan Wiggs
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Home Before Dark

Author: Susan Wiggs

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 11 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017

Categories: Fiction, Romance

Synopsis

As an irresponsible young mother, Jessie Ryder knew she’d never be able to give her newborn the stable family that her older sister could, and the security her child deserved. So Luz and her husband adopted little Lila and told her Jessie was but a distant aunt. Sixteen years later, having traveled the world with the winds of remorse at her back, Jessie is suspending her photojournalism career to return home — even if it means throwing her sister’s world into turmoil. Where life once seemed filled with boundless opportunity, Jessie is now on a journey to redeem her careless past, bringing with her a terrible burden. Jessie’s arrival is destined to expose the secrets and lies that barely held her daughter’s adoptive family together to begin with, yet the truth can do so much more than just hurt. It can bring you home to a new kind of honesty, shedding its light into the deepest corners of the heart.

About Susan Wiggs

When Susan Wiggs’s recent novel, Fireside, landed at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, the author responded by jumping fully clothed into her swimming pool. In February. In the Pacific Northwest. After thawing herself out, the author put on her lipstick and vacuumed the living room. Why? Because on the tiny island where she lives, news travels fast. She knew her girlfriends would show up momentarily - which they did - with the customary champagne and bags of Cheetos. She toasted her loyal readers, whose unflagging interest in her books propelled her sales upward. She toasted her friends and family as well, since they have always been the source of her inspiration. From the very start, her writings have illuminated the everyday dramas of ordinary people. At the age of eight, she self-published her first novel, entitled A Book About Some Bad Kids. Today, she is an international best-selling author, with millions of copies of her books in print in numerous countries. Her Lakeshore Chronicles novels celebrate the power of love, the timeless bonds of family and the nuances of human nature that make headlines every day. She lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest and is perpetually working on her next novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ashley on July 31, 2016

At first I was thoroughly enjoying this book despite being slightly annoyed by the main character Jessie. She was narcissistic and selfish but she did grow throughout the book and I came to like her. There were two points that really bothered me though. And bothered me enough to drastically affect m......more

Goodreads review by Dale on December 08, 2014

I rarely read two books by the same author one after the other but these were in the same volume, so, having loved The Goodbye Quilt, I turned straight to Home Before Dark. For me it was a mistake. Whether it was me or the book is debatable. Initially this story was written 8 years before The Goodby......more

Goodreads review by Kim on June 02, 2012

First let me say I have enjoyed many books by Susan Wiggs. I am just not sure what happened with this one. Major problems for me were an unlikeable protagonist and a completely unbelieavable...well...everything. I think Ms. Wiggs was trying to show the lead character as a flawed but likeable person.......more

Goodreads review by Teri on June 19, 2014

I loved this book from beginning to end!......more

Goodreads review by Debby on April 08, 2010

I found the story and found it very interesting, as the main character suffered from a visual loss very similar to what I am going through though I have not lost all vision in my right eye. At the age of 21, Jessie gave up her prematurely newborn daughter to be adopted by her sister Lucy and Lucy's......more

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