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The Time Between - Karen White
The Time Between
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New York Times bestselling author Karen White delivers a novel of two generations of sisters and secrets set in the stunning South Carolina Lowcountry. Eleanor Murray will always remember her childhood on Edisto Island, where her late father, a local shrimper, shared her passion for music. Now... show more
New York Times bestselling author Karen White delivers a novel of two generations of sisters and secrets set in the stunning South Carolina Lowcountry. Eleanor Murray will always remember her childhood on Edisto Island, where her late father, a local shrimper, shared her passion for music. Now her memories of him are all that tempers the guilt she feels over the accident that put her sister in a wheelchair—and the feelings she harbors for her sister’s husband. To help support her sister, Eleanor works at a Charleston investment firm during the day, but she escapes into her music, playing piano at a neighborhood bar. Until the night her enigmatic boss walks in and offers her a part-time job caring for his elderly aunt, Helena, back on Edisto. For Eleanor, it’s a chance to revisit the place where she was her happiest—and to share her love of music with grieving Helena, whose sister recently died under mysterious circumstances. An island lush with sweetgrass and salt marshes, Edisto has been a peaceful refuge for Helena, who escaped with her sister from war-torn Hungary in 1944. The sisters were well-known on the island, where they volunteered in their church and community. But now Eleanor will finally learn the truth about their past: secrets that will help heal her relationship with her own sister—and set Eleanor free....
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780451239860 (0451239865)
Publisher: NAL Hardcover
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
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ellaminnowpea
ellaminnowpea rated it
I read the first ten pages of this on my disaster commute, and I've already made this face:It has such good reviews I feel I have to keep going but why is the husband not taking care of Eve? Why is everybody being so mean to the main character? Why are these people already pissing me off so much?It'...
claudiaf
claudiaf rated it
Beautiful story about learning to forgive and the bound between sisters..I cried a few times remembering about my own sister. And the chemistry between Eleanor and Finn, the love that he felt for her after all.... A must read!!!!!
mtw1tter
mtw1tter rated it
2.0 The Time Between
My reading experience might be tempered by the fact that I had read "Orphan Train" before reading this but I have to say the coincidences played out in this book made it a little harder to accept the plot and the neat ending.
eva
eva rated it
5.0 The Time Between
Really loved this. I will definitely be checking out more of Karen White's books.
Silver's Reviews
Silver's Reviews rated it
5.0 The Time Between
Pianos, beaches, mansions, guilt, accidents, decisions, grief, love, secrets and children who didn't know each other as children but knew each other now as adults. Eleanor was the cause of her sister's paralyzing accident when they were children, and her mother never let her forget it. Eleanor was...
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