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    No Time to Wave Goodbye: A Novel

    Written by Jacquelyn Mitchard

    Narrated by Susan Denaker

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard captured the heart of a nation with The Deep End of the Ocean, her celebrated debut novel about mother Beth Cappadora, a child kidnapped, a family in crisis. Now, in No Time to Wave Goodbye, the unforgettable Cappadoras are in peril once again, forced to confront an unimaginable evil.

    It has been twenty-two years since Beth Cappadora's three-year-old son Ben was abducted. By some miracle, he returned nine years later, and the family began to pick up the pieces of their lives. But their peace has always been fragile: Ben returned from the deep end as another child and has never felt entirely at ease with the family he was born into. Now the Cappadora children are grown: Ben is married with a baby girl, Kerry is studying to be an opera singer, and Vincent has emerged from his troubled adolescence as a fledgling filmmaker.

    The subject of Vincent's new documentary, No Time to Wave Goodbye, shakes Vincent's unsuspecting family to the core; it focuses on five families caught in the tortuous web of never knowing the fate of their abducted children. Though Beth tries to stave off the torrent of buried emotions, she is left wondering if she and her family are fated to relive the past forever.

    The film earns tremendous acclaim, but just as the Cappadoras are about to celebrate the culmination of Vincent's artistic success, what Beth fears the most occurs, and the Cappadoras are cast back into the past, revisiting the worst moment of their lives-with only hours to find the truth that can save a life. High in a rugged California mountain range, their rescue becomes a desperate struggle for survival.

    No Time to Wave Goodbye is Jacquelyn Mitchard at her best, a spellbinding novel about family loyalty, and love pushed to the limits of endurance.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 15, 2009
    ISBN9780307701794
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    No Time to Wave Goodbye: A Novel
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    Jacquelyn Mitchard

    New York Times bestseller Jacquelyn Mitchard's novels include The Deep End of the Ocean, Twelve Times Blessed, and The Breakdown Lane. She is also the author of The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship, a collection of her newspaper columns. She lives with her husband and six children in Madison, Wisconsin.

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    • 5/5
      This book was slow in the beginning but very interesting reading for at least the last 3/4 of the book. It was a good subject that often gets ignored.
    • 2/5
      This one dragged for me at the beginning, I felt it was a bit lazy to return to the same plot twist as the first book, and the end dragged again for me.
    • 4/5
      This is a well written story of the lives a the Cappadora family some 20 years after their son is kidnapped and eventually comes back to the family. A documentary is made of this and other childhood kidnappings. the events that transpire leave the reader devouring every page. I highly recommend this book.
    • 4/5
      I like Jacquelyn Mitchard quite a bit, so I enjoyed the book. It developed the story very quickly, so there were a lot of events somewhat crammed into the story, but it was a very fast read. This is the sequel to The Deep End of the Ocean, which covered a much longer period of time and spent much more time on the emotional damage to the family of the kidnapped Ben. There is an action taken by his brother Vincent towards the end of the book which made no sense to me whatsoever....it really didn't accomplish much as near as I could tell and came at great personal cost. I enjoyed the book, but I think her earlier works were much more carefully written and better books overall.
    • 1/5
      I remembered reading and enjoying Mitchard's first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, when it came out many years ago. My reading tastes have changed considerably since then, but I was tempted to pick up this sequel about what had happened to the Cappadora family.Big mistake. This was a truly dreadful piece of drek. It begins at the premiere of a documentary made by Vincent, the eldest and up to now loser son. The film is about missing children and focuses on several families; it also retells the story of Ben/Sam, the brother who was kidnapped but restored in the first novel. It's so good it ends up getting nominated for an Oscar. At this point, the novel wallows in several nauseating chapters about the mother and other family members getting glammed up for the ceremony, stashing away gift items, ogling Kate Winslet's butt (yes, poor Kate has her butt dragged into this mess!), and ostentaciously name-dropping (Kate gets joined by Morgan Freeman, Ellen De Generis, Sissy Spacek, Michael Moore and others; even Angelina Jolie gets mentioned as NOT staying at their hotel).Just as Vincent accepts his award, a hysterical phone call comes in: Ben's baby daughter has been kidnapped. Yes, she actually makes another kidnapping--the kidnapping of the kidnapped kid's kid--the central plot. Of course, the police are too useless to figure out the culprit, so Vincent, motivated by guilt because he's convinced that his movie provoked someone to take revenge on his family, has to do it. We have to go through all the tear-jerking scenes we saw in the first novel. And then he hires a female tracker with a big dog to find the baby. And of course, against her better judgement, she allows the two greenhorns, Vincent and Ben, to accompany her into the icy wilderness mountains because they won't take no for an answer. And yes, one of them faces a life-threatening situation and is saved by the other. And as soon as they recover the baby, there is a big snowstorm during which communications get cut off, food and fuel and almost gone, and they have to separate to be saved--as of course they are. Happy, happy ending. And even happier, another missing kid is about to be found because of Vincent's movie.I can't recommend this poorly conceived and not very well written book to anyone with a brain and a sense of what makes a good novel. Was The Deep End of the Ocean this bad, too? I'll never know, because I sure don't want to reread it after this one.
    • 4/5
      I wasn't sure whether I would enjoy this book or not. I found that although I liked the main story of it's prequel, Deep End of the Ocean, I really disliked and had not patience for it's characters, especially Beth. I wanted her to have more of a backbone.However, this turned out to be a very good read. It centers around the Ben (Sam) the "found child". He and his brother Vincent have made a documentary movie about families of kidnapped children that have never been found. This movie opens up some deep wounds in Ben's family, and in someone who has viewed the movie. It also leads to another kidnapping. Although I was pretty sure I knew who the villian was, I still found it to be an engaging read that I was anxious to finish to find out how it all turned out.
    • 2/5
      This is a sequel to Mitchard's The Deep End of the Ocean, which was a huge hit. The story brings back the same family, the Capadoras, and once again tragedy strikes. Beth and Pat's first grandchild, the daughter of their kidnapped and returned son Ben/Sam is herself kidnapped and the family seeks to get her back. I think the book is trite and not even that well written. I was very disappointed in this book because I remember enjoying the first one so much.
    • 2/5
      I found ths book to be ok for a Sunday aftenoon read but it wasn't the kind of book that you just can't put down and that is exactly what I did over the course of three weeks.. The beginng seemed to be a bit repetious and that was probably for the sake of readers who did not know the basis of this book 's predicessor, Deep End of the Ocean. But it was almost too much that for the first 4 or 5 chapters I wasn't quite sure I would finish the book. And most of the plot was predictable but still readable. I didn't find many surprises. The ending was good and overall it gave the reader a sense of appreciating family. I would only recommend this book to die hard fans of the author.
    • 1/5
      I read and enjoyed 'The Deep End of the Ocean' years ago, so I thought I would enjoy 'No Time to Wave Goodbye' as well. I was very disappointed. Mitchard assumes we know her characters already, and jumps right in. It's been a while since I read 'Ocean' so it took me a while to have any feeling for the Cappadoras. Character is so important to me as I read, and I had a hard time distinguishing between Ben/Sam and Vincent, remembering who was married and who not, and so forth.The story struck me as implausible and contrived, from beginning (the Oscar winning documentary) to end (the daring trek through snow to rescue the baby.)I did finish reading it, and was somewhat engaged with the story, but I have to say there were a lot of problems with this book.
    • 5/5
      If you read The Deep End Of The Ocean and loved it as much as I did I think you will love this book. Jacquelyn Mitchard does not disappoint. I am sometimes leery of sequels. This one was excellent! I once again fell in love with the Cappadora family. They have all aged a little but still are pretty much the same people they were in the first novel. I felt like I never lost touch with them. They have all been affected by Ben/Sam's kidnapping and eventual return. It has played a huge role in the people they have become. I think it's interesting that this book addresses not only kidnapping but what happens after. How do families go on living? This book pulls you in right from the get go. It seems the family is adjusting well to life. The kids are grown. Ben/Sam is married and a father, Kerry is on her way to becoming an opera singer, and Vincent has made a documentary which will change all their lives. Unfortunately the Cappadora's have to relive the horrible past with a new kidnapping in the family. It's hard to review it and not give the story away so I won't say too much. I read the bulk of the book in one day. I could not put it down. I just had to know what happened. There are many twists in the novel. Just when I thought I had it figured out, there was another suspect in my mind. I felt Beth's pain as she relived her own nightmare but then has to also watch her son live the same nightmare. I absolutely loved this book! This is one of the best books I have read this year.
    • 4/5
      I didn't read Jacquelyn Mitchard's "Deep End of the Ocean" so I was a bit concerned when "Not Time to Wave Goodbye" arrived in the mail. I really shouldn't have been because Ms. Mitchard got me up to speed in a reasonable amount of time. I didn't have an intimate knowledge of all of the characters but I did feel connected to the most important ones. Some of the early character building could have been left out or weaved into the story at a later point. But once it got going (kinda slow in the beginning) I simply couldn't put it down. It was a surprise page turner!! Didn't expect that. I felt it was a good read and I would read it again and again. Thoroughly enjoyed her characters once I got to know them. Fun, entertaining, and I cried on several pages. The ending was a bit unexpected but I was as thrilled with the outcome as the characters were! I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a good novel to curl up with on a rainy weekend. Maybe I'll go back & read "Deep End of the Ocean" now.
    • 3/5
      It's been a while since I read Deep End of the Ocean, so I didn't really remember the characters in any depth. Unfortunately Mitchard doesn't really flesh them out in No Time to Wave Goodbye. I could only keep track of characters by name, not because I felt I knew them. It's an interesting premise, but so much is glossed over, it was almost like reading a synopsis. Frustrating. The ending is far fetched and feels like it was tacked on to meet a deadline. I was disappointed.
    • 4/5
      I was so excited to win the ARC for this book as I loved and adored the first book, taken with the two main narrators of the story. The second book isn't told in quite the same matter nor with the focus so singulary on those characters. But it was still a great read. It only took me two days to zoom through the pages, wanting to continue and I thought it was so perfectly striking that the characters can still be back in those moments from the first book at any time. I also have to say I enjoy the way Mitchard writes. It's not overly descriptive or boring. The dialogue and prose flow and in a way that's easy and yet sometimes manages to elicit the "I wish I had wrote" line or scene.
    • 5/5
      I recently read The deep end of the ocean and so it was fresh in my mind when I started to read "No time to wave Goodbye". This story picks up a few years down the road and the family has put itself back together as best as they could. They have careers and new family members added to their clan. They also have more notoriety when oldest son Vincent strikes gold with his new movie. This puts the whole family back in the spotlight. This story is well done and I could feel the pain and agony of the characters as they try to mend and heal from the crisis of the past and the present. I really liked this sequel.
    • 4/5
      "The Deep End of the Ocean" is one of those books that has stayed with me. Like any mother, I have wondered what I would do if my child was ever taken. I have lain awake at night shaken with fear at that thought. It was an emotional book and a journey through those worst fears. "No Time to Wave Goodbye" is a similar experience and journey. It is gripping from the first chapter and from there I could barely put it down. It holds onto you like a thriller. It was both as scary and fantastic as reading "Jurassic Park." You could feel the danger lurking in this book just like those T-Rex footfalls. The story is very fast-paced and detailed and there are some things that get glossed over that I would have loved to know more about, but in a way that is part of the beauty of this book because you fill in parts of the story on your own.