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Hannah Marsh's seemingly perfect life is thrown into chaos when her husband decides to accept a teaching position in Asheville, where she encounters Daintry O'Connor, once her best friend and now her enemy, and finds herself attracted to Daintry's husband, a minister, which forces her to come to terms with both her past and the present. 20,000 first printing.
- GenresFiction
288 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 2001
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About the author
Susan Kelly
7 books18 followersI've lived most of my life in North Carolina, and have set my books here, at both the mountains and the beaches. I have a BA in English from UNC-Chapel Hill and a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson's Program for Writers. Warner Books published my first two novels (believe it: the first one, HOW CLOSE WE COME, won a contest and got picked up by the big boys) and Pegausus Books is my current publisher. I've had a checkered publishing past, including 5 agents, and a book that came out concurrent with 9/11... and vanished. My complete bio can be found on my website, http://www.susanskelly.com
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May 27, 2022
This book was painstakingly slow for me! Main story is about two adult women who were childhood friends that grew apart. Daintry was the friend who seemed to have it all, and Hannah was the follower who wanted to do anything and everything to be able to remain in Daintrys circle!
They grow apart and lose touch only to surprisingly end up in the same town as adults!
To me this is a story about a “mean girl” and a bully who continued to be the same as an adult as she was as a child/teen!
We have all had that friend and as a child I was more of a Hannah, thankfully as an adult I have come to realize there is more to life than tagging along behind a supposed friend who only wants to use and abuse you!
There are other sub plots in the story, but the main was about Daintry and Hannah!
The best chapter of the book was the last one and these few sentences pretty much wrapped it up for me! “As we get older we discard objects that no longer have significance. We discard people as well!”
If I was Hannah I would say good riddance to Daintry!
Now I say good riddance to this book!
They grow apart and lose touch only to surprisingly end up in the same town as adults!
To me this is a story about a “mean girl” and a bully who continued to be the same as an adult as she was as a child/teen!
We have all had that friend and as a child I was more of a Hannah, thankfully as an adult I have come to realize there is more to life than tagging along behind a supposed friend who only wants to use and abuse you!
There are other sub plots in the story, but the main was about Daintry and Hannah!
The best chapter of the book was the last one and these few sentences pretty much wrapped it up for me! “As we get older we discard objects that no longer have significance. We discard people as well!”
If I was Hannah I would say good riddance to Daintry!
Now I say good riddance to this book!
February 11, 2013
Not that interesting; I was hoping for a more exciting storyline.
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