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    Fortune's Daughters
    Fortune's Daughters
    Fortune's Daughters
    Audiobook9 hours

    Fortune's Daughters

    Written by Consuelo Saah Baehr

    Narrated by Nicol Zanzarella

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    About this audiobook

    Faith Simpson is born at the dawn of the twentieth century into a dynasty that gives her everything she will ever need—except her parents’ love and attention. Often misunderstood, she trusts few as she grows up on the family’s manicured Long Island estate. Just twenty-nine miles away, on lower Manhattan’s dirty, crowded streets, Hope Lee’s world is one of poverty and desperation. The scrappy child of hard-working Irish and Chinese immigrants has learned to fend for herself, until a terrible disaster thrusts her into a strange, new world of privilege.

    When she meets Faith, Hope has faced enough loss to last a lifetime, and, like Faith, she has built an emotional wall to survive. Compelled by the tragic bonds of very different childhoods, they soon forge a strong alliance. But when Faith’s father chooses Hope as his protégé, and, worse yet, both Faith and Hope fall in love with the same man, resentment and betrayal threaten their bond. Caught in the tumult of World War I, Wall Street, union fights, and changing women’s roles, these two extraordinary women find that true fortune can’t be bought or sold.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMay 9, 2017
    ISBN9781536655476
    Fortune's Daughters
    Author

    Consuelo Saah Baehr

    Fortune's Daughters is the most recent family saga written by Consuelo Saah Baehr, bestselling author of Three Daughters. Her previous novels include Best Friends and One Hundred Open Houses. She is also the author of the novella Softgoods and the romantic comedy Nothing to Lose. Saah Baehr was born in El Salvador to French-Palestinian parents but soon moved to Washington, DC, where her family owned and operated the upscale boutique department store Jean Matou, a favorite of Bess Truman and Jackie Kennedy. A former copywriter for Macy's, Saah Baehr lives in a cottage close to the Atlantic Ocean and writes about the everydayness of life at www.consuelosaahbaehr.com.

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    • 5/5
      Beautiful story. Very enjoyable and cannot put down till I reach end
    • 4/5
      Despite not being able to recall my reason for wanting to read this novel, I found the story of two twentieth century women divided by fortune captivating enough to finish in one day! The prose is oddly stilted, like a Wikipedia article, and the romantic twists and turns felt a little like a soap opera in the second half of the book, but I liked Faith, the poor little rich girl who is 'nobody's darling', and couldn't help but cheer on Hope, the biracial orphan whose instinctive knowledge of the stock market twice opens the door into Faith's world. That said, I personally have no head for figures and finance, so the excessive detail about Wall Street - leading up to the crash in 1929 - left me cold. Definitely a mixed bag of historical detail and timeless emotions, but entertaining throughout!
    • 3/5
      Faith Simpson is born at the dawn of the twentieth century into a dynasty that gives her everything she will ever need—except her parents’ love and attention. Often misunderstood, she trusts few as she grows up on the family’s manicured Long Island estate. Just twenty-nine miles away, on lower Manhattan’s dirty, crowded streets, Hope Lee’s world is one of poverty and desperation. The scrappy child of hard-working Irish and Chinese immigrants has learned to fend for herself, until a terrible disaster thrusts her into a strange, new world of privilege.
    • 4/5
      I would like to thank NetGalley, Lake Union Press and Consuelo Saah Baehr for the ARC of "Fortune's Daughters" by Consuelo Saah Baehr for my honest review. The genres of this book are Women's Fiction, Fiction, and Historical Fiction with some liberties taken by the author. The timeline of this story starts at the turn of the twentieth century, World War One, Union fights, Women's Rights and the fall of Wall Street. I find that the author describes are characters as complex and complicated. The backgrounds and diversity of two of the characters are apparent. Faith Simpson is born to an affluent family, enjoying many materialistic things, but not getting the attention from her parents. Hope Lee is born to parents that live in poverty, and struggle to survive. After a major tragedy, an orphaned Hope finds herself in Faith's home, where she lives for quite a while. The author describes, betrayal, jealousy, loyalty, integrity, love and hope. In addition, the author shows the importance of family value, family love and friendship. What exactly does having a fortune mean? I enjoyed this book and would recommend it. Happy Reading!