A Sound Among the Trees
A house shrouded in time. A line of women with a heritage of loss.As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn’t believe that Susannah’s ghost haunts...
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A house shrouded in time. A line of women with a heritage of loss.As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn’t believe that Susannah’s ghost haunts the antebellum mansion looking for a pardon, but rather the house itself bears a grudge toward its tragic past.When Marielle Bishop marries into the family and is transplanted from the arid west to her husband’s home, it isn’t long before she is led to believe that the house she just settled into brings misfortune to the women who live there.With Adelaide’s richly peppered superstitions and deep family roots at stake, Marielle must sort out the truth about Susannah Page and Holly Oak— and make peace with the sacrifices she has made for love.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307458858 (0307458857)
Publish date: October 4th 2011
Publisher: WaterBrook Multnomah
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
The young bride that moves into her husband's first wife home is first scared that there a ghost in the house. She not understand what it was doing to the people inside the home or what the people inside the house was doing to the family. A mystery unfolds itself though Marielle. Caroline come home...
This book really captured my interest. Picture this; marrying a man whose first wife passed away and moving across the country into her family home with her grandmother, your new husband, and his two children. If that isn't strange enough for you; picture that this house has always been connected ...
This is a mash-up of a contemporary generational story with historical fiction. A Sound Among the Trees is similar in tone to The Help by Kathryn Stockett, but the time span between past and present is greater (i.e. present and Civil War era). Keeping that in mind, it does fit in the historical fict...
Description from Amazon.com: A house shrouded in time. A line of women with a heritage of loss. As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn’t believe tha...
Marielle moves to Holly Oaks in Fredericksburg, VA with her new husband. The old Civil War era home is many things - but it is the childhood home of her new husband's deceased first wife. While he claims to be staying to ease the pains of his children and to help the aged aunt that lives there, wh...