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  • Written by: Beverly Jensen
  • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
  • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay

Written by: Beverly Jensen
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
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Publisher's Summary

In 1916, Sisters Idella and Avis Hillock live on the edge of a chilly bluff in New Brunswick, Canada, a hardscrabble world of potato farms, rough men, hard work, and baffling beauty. From “Gone”, the heartbreaking account of the crisis that changed their lives forever, to the darkly comic “Wake”, which follows the grown siblings’ catastrophic efforts to escort the body of their father “Wild Bill” Hillock to his funeral, these stories of Idella and Avis offer a compelling and wry vision of two remarkable women.

The vivid characters include Idella’s philandering husband, her bewilderingly difficult mother-in-law, and Avis, whose serial romantic disasters never quell her irrepressible spirit. Jensen’s work evokes a time gone by and reads like an instant American classic.

©2010 Jay Silverman, Executor of the Estate of Beverly Jensen (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

What the critics say

“Profane, loving, hardnosed, and completely beautiful. If you ever loved The Memory Keeper's Daughter or The Secret Life of Bees, you have been waiting for this book and just didn't know it.” (Stephen King)
“An original voice, sharp witted and big hearted, as if a rambunctious and deeply troubled family out of William Faulkner’s Mississippi had been tempered instead by the snowy reaches of the North.” ( Poets & Writers)

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