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    The Long Road Home
    The Long Road Home
    The Long Road Home
    Audiobook14 hours

    The Long Road Home

    Written by Mary Alice Monroe

    Narrated by Sandra Burr

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    About this audiobook

    Her husband's suicide left Nora MacKenzie alone, and his shady Wall Street dealings left the Manhattan socialite penniless. By a miracle she's held on to their mountainside farm—and she'll keep holding on, no matter what. The property is Nora's one chance to wring some dignity out of the sham she's been living.

    The Vermont locals think she's a city girl on a nature kick, but she's not afraid to get her hands dirty. Nora's serious about learning the farming business...if she can figure out where to begin. Against the locals' skepticism, she has only one ally: Charles "C.W." Walker.

    C.W. is hardworking, gentle with the animals and a patient teacher of the hundreds of chores Nora needs to learn. Slowly she starts to believe she'll survive in her new life, even flourish. She might even be willing to open her heart again. But she won't return to a life of lies...and the truth about C.W. may be more than Nora's fragile heart can bear.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 1, 2010
    ISBN9781441891594
    The Long Road Home
    Author

    Mary Alice Monroe

    Mary Alice Monroe is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-seven books, including the bestselling The Beach House series. Monroe also writes children’s picture books, and a middle grade fiction series called The Islanders. She is a member of the South Carolina Academy of Authors’ Hall of Fame, and her books have received numerous awards, including the South Carolina Center for the Book Award for Writing; the South Carolina Award for Literary Excellence; the SW Florida Author of Distinction Award; the RT Lifetime Achievement Award; the International Book Award for Green Fiction; the Henry Bergh Children’s Book Award; and her novel, A Lowcountry Christmas, won the prestigious Southern Prize for Fiction. The Beach House is a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, starring Andie MacDowell. Several of her novels have been optioned for film. She is the cocreator and cohost of the weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fiction. Monroe is also an active conservationist and serves on several boards. She lives on the South Carolina coast, which is a source of inspiration for many of her books. 

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    • 1/5
      I try not to write negative reviews but wish more people would be honest when they don’t like a book. This story was boring and predictable. The characters were easy to dislike and the audio version was nauseating to listen to ... I appreciate the narrator trying to make a distinction between characters with her voice but her voice made me like them even less. I just couldn’t take it anymore and stopped listening with 5 hours left.

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    • 2/5
      The story was predictable, but that doesn’t necessarily make a bad read, or in the case of the audio version, a bad listen. But in this case the predictability was exacerbated by overwrought descriptions, stereotyping, and some writing that would have belonged in a bodice-ripper. At times it was cringe-worthy. I listened to the audio version, so couldn’t easily skip ahead to other parts. Audiobook readers have a tough job, but the reader in this case made the heroine sound unnecessarily fragile and weak, the New England dialect forced and type-cast, and the narrative plodding. It grated, and my recommendation for this work is to just pass it by.
    • 2/5
      As I continue reading Mary Alice Monroe in this stay-at-home world, I just finished The Long Road Home that displays life in New York City and in the state of Vermont. Nora MacKenzie’s husband, Mike commits suicide in front of banker Charles Walker Blair and Nora’s world plummets out of control. In the flash of a gun, the glitzy life of a pampered society lady turns to a life of hardship in the wild, chilly mountains of Vermont. Nora has only this primitive and unfinished house and acres of pasture and sheep to keep the wolves at bay. This is a story of new friendships forged and trust restored, and love awakened. The story is beautifully written, but the events and outcomes of the story are predictable
    • 1/5
      The front and the back of the book intrigued me, along with the first few pages; unfortunately, the book was a big disappointment. I was genuinely bored throughout the whole thing and was relieved when I finally finished it.

      A long, drawn out, predictable story about a rich woman who becomes almost poor after her husband's suicide. She moves from the city to her farmhouse in Vermont, and blah, blah, blah.
    • 3/5
      It start with a letter...a letter to his daughter. A letter trying to explain how things got out of hand...because he just couldn't tel the truth. It was hard to read this book, hard, because I never likes the speaker. To me he kept justifying his anger, trid to win back his daughter with an explanation but in truth, he was a coward, plain and simple.