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Title: Little Sister

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Barbara Gowdy

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Horror

Publisher's Summary:

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice

Thunderstorms are rolling across the summer sky. Every time one breaks, Rose Bowan loses consciousness and has vivid, realistic dreams about being in another woman's body.

Is Rose merely dreaming? Or is she in fact inhabiting a stranger? Disturbed yet entranced, she sets out to discover what is happening to her, leaving the cocoon of her family's small repertory cinema for the larger, upended world of someone wildly different from herself. Meanwhile, her mother is in the early stages of dementia and has begun to speak for the first time in decades about another haunting presence: Rose's younger sister.

In Little Sister, one woman fights to help someone she has never met and to come to terms with a death for which she always felt responsible. With the elegant prose and groundbreaking imagination that have earned her international acclaim, Barbara Gowdy explores the astonishing power of empathy, the question of where we end and others begin, and the fierce bonds of motherhood and sisterhood.

Members Reviews:

Simply Written, Beautifully Done

My first book by this author but hopefully not my last. Starting off I wasn't really sure what to expect but the more I read, the more entrenched I became. The concept us relatively unique but what the author did with it is what made the story. Its a story within a story, two lives happening at once. All the characters are so well done. The dialogue is so realistic. All in all a great story to read if you want to get lost and then find a little bit of yourself.

Listless

Reasonably well written, but the protagonist and the plot were both listless. Many clichés and many missed opportunities to make it a lot more powerful.

This is not a book I have heard of or an author I have read before but I often pick up books because of their covers and actually have good luck. This one was a great reading experience ...

My library has a wall where they display new books and I always go and look at the wall. This cover caught my eye and I picked it up. This is not a book I have heard of or an author I have read before but I often pick up books because of their covers and actually have good luck. This one was a great reading experience for me. There are none of the usual things that I usually read about like dragons, elves, zombies, or vampires but there is a hint of science fictions and a gripping mystery. I stayed up until 2 am to finish it and immediately wished I had made myself take more time with it. I will be reading more from this author in the future.

Suspenseful- Reconciling Dark Past with the Present

Little Sister opens with intriguing characters and an unsettling scene that immediately drew me into Rose's experience.

Out of the blue, Rose finds herself slipping into a dream state when the weather grows stormy. Not only is she "somewhere else" but she's within "someone else", slipping into the body of another woman and experiencing bits and pieces of her life. She can't quite explain these episodes and this strange connection drives her to learn more about this woman she occasionally inhabits.

The experience dredges up a dark secret regarding Rose and her little sister. Rose's journey is both unique and suspenseful, forcing her to reconcile her past and face the present.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, a suspenseful read that balanced both dark and light story elements.