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Book Description:
In a small town called Dundee on the coast of Maine, an old woman named Hannah Gray begins her story: "Somebody said 'true love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.' I've seen both and I don't know how to tell you which is worse." Hannah has decided, finally, to leave a record of the passionate and anguished long-ago summer in Dundee when she met Conary Crocker, the town bad boy and love of her life. This spare, piercing, and unforgettable novel bridges two centuries and two intense love stories as Hannah and Conary's fate is interwoven with the tale of a marriage that took place in Dundee a hundred years earlier.
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3 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is a creepy book. After receiving it and starting to read it, I remembered that I had tried to read this previously. The ghost story part of it creeps me out so bad, I can't finish it. If you like ghost stories, then this is a great book for you!
Michelle A. from NORTH AURORA, IL wrote on 9/30/2008...
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
This book was hard to get into. Not that interesting of a story, but I did finish it to the end. The ghost parts of the story are very creepy and made me not want to be awake after everyone else went to bed in my house.
Jill L. from HEBER SPRINGS, AR wrote on 10/2/2007...
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
A book that you absolutely cannot put down once you start reading it. This was one of the most incredible books I have ever read.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Pretty good book - not one that I will remember long though.
Dina G. from SAN FRANCISCO, CA wrote on 4/27/2008...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is a great story. It goes back and forth between two generations and tells a murder mystery, a ghost story, and a love story. It keeps your attention and ultimately connects all the stories together.
Jinny M. from THE WOODLANDS, TX wrote on 1/11/2008...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
The synopsis doesn't do this book justice. The "other" story is just as engrossing as the one about Conary. The author completely and gracefully takes you back into not one but two different times and places and the story leaves you in awe as to how human emotion and feeling can change so dramatically.
Suzanne F. from DAYTON, NJ wrote on 2/24/2007...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
A good book. It is the recounting of a love between Hannah Gray of Dundee, Maine and Conary Crocker, the town bad boy. Hannah begins her story saying, "Somebody said true love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. I've seen both and I don't know how to tell you which is worse." This spare, piercing, and unforgettable novel bridges two centuries of two intense love stories as Hannah and Conary's fate is interwoven with the tale of a marriage that took place in Dundee a hundred years earlier.
Susan C. from BANGOR, ME wrote on 9/30/2006...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Beautifully written book of the intergenerational relationship between two women and their loves. As Anne Rivers Siddons says on the back, "Beth Gutcheon speaks truly and poignantly of two places that haunt me -- the rich, dark country of the Maine coast and the rich, dark country of the human heart."
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I loved this book! It was beautifully written. I immediately went and ordered as many others by her as I could!
Love story + ghost story = great story!
Combines the chilling tension of a murder mystery with the most tender elements of youthful romance. Haunting in every sense.A believable tragic love story.
This was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year 2001
Rachel P. (This lady knows "down Maine". I know people like this. Very true to the area.
Carrie P. from ROSEVILLE, MN wrote on 7/3/2007...This book is a haunting and capitvating tale of two intense love stories ocurring 100 years apart. I really enjoyed this book. It combines the chilling tension of a murder mystery with the most tender elements of youthful romance.
Heather P. from CROSBY, ND wrote on 3/14/2007...Haunting!!!!!
In the small town of Dundee, Maine, an old woman named Hannah Gray begins her story: "Somebody said 'true love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen." I've seen both and I don't know how to tell you which is worse." Hannah has decided, finally, to leave a record of the passionate and anguished long-ago summer when she met Conary Crocker, the town bad boy and love of her life.
Kristal L. (Wonderfully told haunting love story.
A novel about love and marriage interwoven with a murder mystery that will keep that pages turning.
Hannah is looking back over her life, remembering a summer in Maine as a teen experiencing her first love. But there is an older story too, and ghosts from that earlier time haunt the present.