Riggs Park

by Ellyn Bache

Riggs Park by Ellyn Bache released on Jun 28, 2005 is available now for purchase.

Genres: Romance, Fiction

304 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2005

About the author

Ellyn Bache is the author of nine novels, including Safe Passage, which was made into a movie starring Susan Sarandon, and The Art of Saying Goodbye, which was chosen as an “Okra Pick” by the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Alliance. She began her career writing short stories for women’s magazines like McCall’s and Good Housekeeping, some of which have recently been collected in Kaleidoscope: 20 Stories Celebrating Women’s Magazine Fiction. She has also published dozens of literary stories, including those which appeared in a collection that won the Willa Cather Fiction Prize. After many years living in Wilmington, NC, she moved to Greenville, SC, a lovely city but much too far from the ocean. Visit her at www.ellynbache.com

Reviews

[Carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 1/2 Stars....Bache's story is interesting and the writing is stellar. One of the best reads for me in a good while. She had me glued to the storyline. I was surprised more than once pleasantly I might add. She doesn't waste my time with wordy chapters. The book is about baby boomers and the friendship that has lasted over 50 years..but it is much more than that...This could be a movie..like Safe Passage .. I will rent first chance I get...would rather read the book...

[jerushaaaa · Rating 1 out of 5]

I see why people would like this book. But personally I just couldn’t finish this book, the characters are just not interesting, there’s a lot of ramblings about the past and they don’t even correlate to the present story. And it was a predictable read. Also just really seemed like everyone really wanted to get laid??
I can’t say it’s horrible, it’s just really boring. Something to read it after some intense book maybe.

[Jeanette Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought this book would be a sappy romance novel since it is in a line of books published by Harlequin. I was pleasantly surprised. The author wrote an intriguing story. It was hard to put the book down. The revelations in the novel were surprising.

[Louise · Rating 3 out of 5]

An engrossing novel that had me guessing until Jon makes his confession to Barbara! I couldn't read fast enough to find out what I wanted to know. lol

From back cover:

"The residents of Riggs Park nicknamed her Penny, since her hair was the red of a bright copper coin...

We'd all grown up in the flourishing Washington, D.C., suburb-Marilyn, me, Steve, Penny and Wish...the boy I'd loved. It was during the baby-boom years, when the future was luminous. But things don't always turn out as expected. Riggs Park had secrets, and Penny was one of them.

Sometimes there's a chance to go back and right a wrong, Marilyn is convinced Penny had had a baby, and that the child belonged to her family. My lifelong friend can't follow up-she's fighting cancer. Only I can search for answers. But would finding the truth break my heart...or set us all free?"

[Louie Haltom · Rating 4 out of 5]

baby boomers life long friendship