Accidental Happiness
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Accidental Happiness
Narrated by:
Staci Snell
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Narrated by:
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Staci Snell
About this listen
After her husband’s unexpected death at the age of thirty-six, Gina Melrose becomes a “live-aboard” on his boat, docked at a marina in coastal South Carolina, near the home she and Ben once shared. In this temporary, borrowed existence on the water, she settles into numb survival. But Gina finds her life taking yet another dramatic turn late one night when a woman named Reese disrupts her quiet world. With Reese comes a daughter: a charming girl named Angel.
After a rough start, Gina realizes that, strange as it may seem, she’s drawn to both Reese and Angel. Their sudden appearance shatters the stillness–and Gina is remade. She is fascinated by Reese, who seems both invincible and vulnerable–and whose past may hold the key to Gina’s future. Gina begins to realize that for the first time since Ben’s death, she’s getting her senses back. As both pain and joy reenter her world, Gina discovers that she is able to accept feeling in order to live fully once more.
But the biggest surprise for Gina is her relationship with Angel. After the painful loss of her sister during childhood, Gina had decided that she would never have children of her own. Struggling through conflicted emotions, Gina’s finds her life unexpectedly transformed by the precocious little girl who may be Ben’s daughter.
This tender, poignant novel movingly explores the bonds of family and the resilience of hope. In the accomplished tradition of the novels of Elizabeth Berg and Anita Shreve, Jean Reynolds Page’s Accidental Happiness is a lyrical, enthralling drama unafraid to examine complex relationships with a clear eye and an honest heart.©2005 Jean Reynolds Page; (P)2005 Books on Tape Inc.
Critic Reviews
Praise for A Blessed Event
“Jean Reynolds Page can spin one heck of a tale. . . . A narrative that grows more and more compelling as Page unearths secrets, reveals character, and lays–and layers–the groundwork for an ending that is moving, believable, and earned.”
–The Boston Globe
“Jean Reynolds Page makes an extraordinary debut with A Blessed Event, a wonderful, riveting novel that explores human relationships from every angle. I couldn’t put it down.”
–JILL MCCORKLE
“Jean Reynolds Page knows how to hold the reader riveted.”
–LEE SMITH
“An assured and poignant first novel.”
–The Seattle Times
“Jean Reynolds Page can spin one heck of a tale. . . . A narrative that grows more and more compelling as Page unearths secrets, reveals character, and lays–and layers–the groundwork for an ending that is moving, believable, and earned.”
–The Boston Globe
“Jean Reynolds Page makes an extraordinary debut with A Blessed Event, a wonderful, riveting novel that explores human relationships from every angle. I couldn’t put it down.”
–JILL MCCORKLE
“Jean Reynolds Page knows how to hold the reader riveted.”
–LEE SMITH
“An assured and poignant first novel.”
–The Seattle Times
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