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    The Season of Us
    The Season of Us
    The Season of Us
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Season of Us

    Written by Holly Chamberlin

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

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    Against the irresistible backdrop of Christmas in New England, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin creates a heartfelt and memorable novel—a story of reunited family, new beginnings, and unconditional love—the best gift of all.

    To outsiders, Appleville, New Hampshire, is a storybook small town complete with a little white church and a gazebo on the village green. To Gincy Gannon Luongo, it was a place to escape from, as quickly and as permanently as she could. Since she moved away twenty years ago, Appleville has been her hometown in name only. But at her brother Tommy’s urging, Gincy is coming back to visit their recently widowed mother in the weeks leading up to Christmas—and she’s bringing her teenage daughter, Tamsin, with her.

    Ellen Gannon, once feisty and strong-willed, is mired in depression six months after losing her husband. Tommy isn’t doing much better. Gincy starts restoring order to the household in her usual practical way, but the real issues run much deeper than an empty fridge or an unpaid bill. Imagined slights and lingering resentments have created chasms between them all.

    With each passing day, Gincy realizes she has seriously undervalued her mother and underestimated her brother. Only now, with the support of her husband, daughter, and best friends, is she starting to see how much she may have missed. For beyond the surface of every family and every picturesque town is something more complicated but infinitely more rewarding—a tapestry of those small acts of acceptance, love, and loyalty that could transform this Christmas into the best Gincy’s ever known.

    Praise for the novels of Holly Chamberlin“Chamberlin’s latest is a great summer read but with substance. It will find a wide audience in its exploration of sisterhood, family, and loss.” —Library Journal on Summer with My Sisters

    “Nostalgia over real-life friendships lost and regained pulls readers into the story.” —USA Today on Summer Friends

    “A thoughtful social commentary and tender narration of friendship and loyalty.” —Publishers Weekly on Last Summer

    “A dramatic and moving portrait of several generations of a family and each person’s place within it.” —Booklist on The Family Beach House

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 25, 2016
    ISBN9781522653103
    Author

    Holly Chamberlin

    Holly Chamberlin was born and raised in New York City. After earning a Master’s degree in English Literature from New York University and working as an editor in the publishing industry for ten years, she moved to Boston, married and became a freelance editor and writer. She and her husband now live in downtown Portland, Maine, in a restored mid-nineteenth-century brick townhouse with Betty, the most athletic, beautiful and intelligent cat in the world.

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    • 3/5
      A 50 year-old woman with a great husband and children gets to know her previously estranged mother and brother and they have a wonderful Christmas together. Nice holiday read.
    • 5/5
      The Season of Us by Holly ChamberlinI've read many of the authors works and have enjoyed them.This one is about Gincy (Virginia) who's married, editor at a publication and her husband Rick also works. They have a son who's in college in CT and a teen daughter. Gincy's brother Tommy alerts her to their mothers health when she's neglected to pay the electric bill.Gincy and her daughter head up to NH from Boston to see what's going on and it's Christmas so she wants to help decorate. Her father had passed away several months prior and she had not returned to her home. She finds many troubling things and works them out with help from others.Like the interventions her friends give her when she is a worrywort about everything and everybody. Things have deteriorated and she is able to talk to her husband often about the situation. Like location and how the community surrounds her when she goes out with her daughters friend and her daughter and granddaughter.Love memories that spark and bring them closer together.I received this book from The Kensington Books in exchange for my honest review
    • 4/5
      This was my first book by Holly Chamberlain (thanks to a goodreads win) but it won't be my last. It's the perfect Christmas book about love and family and forgiveness and the ending will leave you with a smile.Gincy couldn't wait to leave the small town of Appleville and her family. Her mother was always critical of her and her brother was the favorite child. Twenty years later, she is living in Boston with a wonderful job and a perfect family (maybe too perfect, which did bother me at times as I was reading the book). Her dad had died six months earlier and her brother (a real loser according to Gincy) called to say that there was something wrong with their mom. So Gincy and her daughter head back to Appleville (very reluctantly on Gincy's part) to make everything right again. The novel answers the question of whether you can go home again and if you will find that your memories of your upbringing are real or are part of your misinterpretations of the intentions of your family.Great Christmas - or any time of the year - book!