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Title: The Long Summer
Author: Colleen Nye
Narrator: Leigh Akin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-03-17
Publisher: Blue Deco Publishing
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
When Sophia was told that she was going to be spending her final summer before going off to Harvard with her eccentric Grandma Mary, she was less than enthused. It was, after all, supposed to be the summer to say goodbye to friends and hello to adulthood, not stuck in a dusty old mansion with a woman she didn't even know. It wasn't long, however, before she discovers a family secret and how it's shaped even her own life. Losing herself as she listens to Grandma Mary recount her own scandalous past, Sophia learns about her family, herself and maybe even a little about love. From best-selling author Colleen Nye, The Long Summer takes you on the journey of one family's choices and how fate can sometimes be relentless.
Members Reviews:
The Long Summer becomes the defining moment of a life.
The summer before she heads off to College looks long and bleak for Sophie Cunningham after her parents insist that she stay with her Great-Grandmother. Without her boyfriend, her friends, or worse, the internet. Scrap the boyfriend. He pitched a fit at her âchoosingâ to go stay with family.
Grandma Mary, dying of cancer, has come home from her prolonged stay in a nursing home to finish out her life in her Georgian Mansion. The family gathers round like vultures waiting to dine on the scraps of a finished life.
Things start to look up when she meets Sam, the estate Gardnerâs son. Everything that her boyfriend wasnât, Sam has a familial tie to the family that has looked after the estate for Maryâs family for generations.
This book is really slow to start. Seriously though, hang in there, it does get better, and you do get hooked. Honest. Grandma Mary starts spilling her secrets and encouraging Sophie to follow her true lifeâs passion â writing. What she discovers is the story of a passionate young girl who lived her life long ago and the loss of a soul-deep love due to the manipulations of her wealthy upper class parents. He was a man not of their class, and not of her parents choosing.
I cried when I realised Grandma Maryâs true loss, and also that of another woman, manipulated into marrying Maryâs love by her parents. Those two women eventually represented the real life love that the husband, chosen for Mary by her parents, really did feel for her. In fact, I can imagine this story represents many of the wealthy women for that period of time, and Iâm thankful Iâve had the freedom to make the choices I have.
This is a sweet and occasionally emotional story. It is also about finding your lifeâs direction and true love, and having the courage to act on it. We forget to appreciate the elderly and the stories of their lives. They were precious children, lovers and were loved, and were then the parents and grandparents that we see now. We canât appreciate their childhood dreams and teenage passions because we werenât there, but, if we set quietly and listen, we then just might.
Thank you to Colleen Nye for making your book available to The Quirky Blind Date With A Book reading group. My rating reflects that this book isnât really my favourite genre, but it might be yours, so I urge you to check it out. 3.5 Stars.
A YOUNG WOMAN FINDS LOVE AND FAMILY
The Long Summer: The author does a very good job creating an Eden -like setting for two young lovers. The plot is both Romance and Discovery where an adult has a coming of age experience.
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Title: The Long Summer
Author: Colleen Nye
Narrator: Leigh Akin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-03-17
Publisher: Blue Deco Publishing
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
When Sophia was told that she was going to be spending her final summer before going off to Harvard with her eccentric Grandma Mary, she was less than enthused. It was, after all, supposed to be the summer to say goodbye to friends and hello to adulthood, not stuck in a dusty old mansion with a woman she didn't even know. It wasn't long, however, before she discovers a family secret and how it's shaped even her own life. Losing herself as she listens to Grandma Mary recount her own scandalous past, Sophia learns about her family, herself and maybe even a little about love. From best-selling author Colleen Nye, The Long Summer takes you on the journey of one family's choices and how fate can sometimes be relentless.
Members Reviews:
The Long Summer becomes the defining moment of a life.
The summer before she heads off to College looks long and bleak for Sophie Cunningham after her parents insist that she stay with her Great-Grandmother. Without her boyfriend, her friends, or worse, the internet. Scrap the boyfriend. He pitched a fit at her âchoosingâ to go stay with family.
Grandma Mary, dying of cancer, has come home from her prolonged stay in a nursing home to finish out her life in her Georgian Mansion. The family gathers round like vultures waiting to dine on the scraps of a finished life.
Things start to look up when she meets Sam, the estate Gardnerâs son. Everything that her boyfriend wasnât, Sam has a familial tie to the family that has looked after the estate for Maryâs family for generations.
This book is really slow to start. Seriously though, hang in there, it does get better, and you do get hooked. Honest. Grandma Mary starts spilling her secrets and encouraging Sophie to follow her true lifeâs passion â writing. What she discovers is the story of a passionate young girl who lived her life long ago and the loss of a soul-deep love due to the manipulations of her wealthy upper class parents. He was a man not of their class, and not of her parents choosing.
I cried when I realised Grandma Maryâs true loss, and also that of another woman, manipulated into marrying Maryâs love by her parents. Those two women eventually represented the real life love that the husband, chosen for Mary by her parents, really did feel for her. In fact, I can imagine this story represents many of the wealthy women for that period of time, and Iâm thankful Iâve had the freedom to make the choices I have.
This is a sweet and occasionally emotional story. It is also about finding your lifeâs direction and true love, and having the courage to act on it. We forget to appreciate the elderly and the stories of their lives. They were precious children, lovers and were loved, and were then the parents and grandparents that we see now. We canât appreciate their childhood dreams and teenage passions because we werenât there, but, if we set quietly and listen, we then just might.
Thank you to Colleen Nye for making your book available to The Quirky Blind Date With A Book reading group. My rating reflects that this book isnât really my favourite genre, but it might be yours, so I urge you to check it out. 3.5 Stars.
A YOUNG WOMAN FINDS LOVE AND FAMILY
The Long Summer: The author does a very good job creating an Eden -like setting for two young lovers. The plot is both Romance and Discovery where an adult has a coming of age experience.