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    The Edge of Winter
    Audiobook (abridged)4 hours

    The Edge of Winter

    Written by Luanne Rice

    Narrated by Blair Brown

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    About this audiobook

    Neve Halloran and her daughter have shared a fierce love for the austere beauty of Rhode Island's South County ever since Neve guided Mickey's first baby steps along the sandy shore. Now, with Mickey a teenager and Neve's last hope for happiness with her daughter's loving but unstable father gone, both will struggle to make a new life together amid the windswept landscape that sustains them.

    Captivated by a fragile wildlife sanctuary, Mickey will move toward womanhood in the company of a lonely boy who shares her instinctive way with the creatures of the coast. And Neve will find herself drawn to a man who has devoted his life to the sanctuary, but who is unable to share the pain of a recent loss-or reconnect with the father who still bears the scars of World War II.

    As winter gives way to spring, and spring to summer, a secret will emerge that has lain buried in the depths just offshore for decades, a secret that will galvanize the small seaside community. For the waters bear their own vestige of the past-and their ceaseless rhythms may point the way to hope and new beginnings.

    Lyrical, luminous, and utterly captivating, The Edge of Winter is Luanne Rice at her most penetrating and insightful, in a moving exploration of the bonds that shape us and set us free.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 20, 2007
    ISBN9780739331972
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    The Edge of Winter
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    Luanne Rice

    Luanne Rice is the New York Times bestselling author of thirty-six novels, including The Shadow Box. Several have been adapted for television: Crazy in Love, Blue Moon, as well as Follow the Stars Home and Silver Bells for Hallmark Hall of Fame, and Beach Girls as a Lifetime miniseries.

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    • 3/5
      A good read, more in depth than a romance (I likely have done the author a disservice by using that tag). An older man who hasn't let go of the past. Troubled teens & society teens. A woman who cares. Endangered birds and habitat. I liked the setting, tho I am completely unfamiliar with seacoast, and the focus on how young adults act out the values they've grown up with. The value of the natural world for human mental health.
    • 4/5
      This is a tender tale of a mother and daughter negotiating life after the man of the family left them. Mom, Neve Halloran, works in an art gallery. Daughter, Mickey, is fifteen and infused with a love of birds. When she hears that her favorite bird, one that she has never yet seen, was spotted on the beach, she and a friend take off on their bikes for a look at the Snowy Owl. From there, events are set into motion for a first love, and a growing understanding about her father.The more I think back on this book, the more I like it. Though it does cover a lot of territory, I’d still call it a beach read. The topics covered were done so thoughtfully, which makes me want to recommend this to young adult readers. Alcoholism U-boats, PTSD, raptor rehabilitation, talk of various wars, all this could have made a deeper, darker story, but this one was nicely paced, even-keeled, and very well done. Set along Rhode Island’s ocean side in South County, the location was beautifully conjured by the author. The U-boat of this story is called U823, which was sunk off R.I. with 55 aboard, lying 11 fathoms deep. Wikipedia shows an actual event, U853, with the same stats. Although I did not know about this particular event in history, I thought that the author treated it well in her story.
    • 4/5
      The Edge of Winter was very enjoyable. It was very easy to get wrapped in the story, and there was a gentle pull to set things right. I may be biased because I love to read about the interworkings of families and I love nature, especially birds. Families are a complicated subject and I think that Luanne Rice handles them well. There three families involved in this book and each of them were having trouble dealing with their loss. The losses are held close to their chests and are bound up in secrets. To use Ms. Rice’s term, they were frozen. All three families had a deep love of nature in particular for birds. I miss the beaches where I used to live but over and over again I went back to the beaches in the book. She artfully described the beauty of the beaches and the nature inhabiting them. A snowy owl comes to roost in the beginning of the story and is injured just as each of the families were deeply hurt. The owl is a symbol of what they loved and the great pain that was inflicted upon them. This is a story of love conquering fears and shame and request. The German U boat that was sunk of the coast of Rhode Island was a horrible reminder of the costs of war. Luane Rice wove the threads of heartbreak, loss, disappointment and finally joyful forgiveness, love and rebirth together.
    • 3/5
      Sunken U boat from 1940's the center of this story of broken families, marriages in Rhode Island.
    • 5/5
      A novel of second chances in life--some things will haunt us, some things cause us to close off from those we love--with second chances we can regain our perspective and circle back to what is really important in our lives.
    • 5/5
      One of her best! Highly recommended.