A Bend of Light, Joy JordanLake
A Bend of Light, Joy JordanLake
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A Bend of Light
A Novel

Author: Joy Jordan-Lake

Narrator: Elizabeth Evans

Unabridged: 11 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/06/2022

Synopsis

A quiet coastal village in post–World War II America is shaken when the secrets of the past and present collide in a riveting novel by the bestselling author of Under a Gilded Moon.Five years after the war, Amie Stilwell, a photo interpreter for an Allied unit in England, returns to her hometown in Maine. Jobless and discouraged but stubbornly resourceful, she’s starting over in the same coastal village where her life once went so wrong. Waiting for her is Shibby Travis, the surrogate mother with whom Amie never lost touch. But the unexpected also awaits…A silent, abandoned boy is found with a note from a stranger pleading that he be watched over. Amie and Shibby take him in, but the mysteries multiply when a Boston socialite is found dead in a nearby barn and an old friend, believed to be a casualty of war, suddenly reappears.Trained to see what others cannot, to scan for clues, and to expose enemies, Amie uses her skills to protect a child, solve a crime, and find the motive behind a veteran’s masquerade. But through the hazy filter of a town’s secrets, Amie must also confront her own painful past.

About Joy Jordan-Lake

Joy Jordan-Lake has written more than a half dozen books, including the novel Blue Hole Back Home, which won the Christy Award in 2009 for Best First Novel. The book, which explores racial violence and reconciliation in the post–Civil Rights South, went on to be chosen as the Common Book at several colleges, as well as being a frequent book club pick.Jordan-Lake holds a PhD in English, is a former chaplain at Harvard, and has taught literature and writing at several universities. Her scholarly work Whitewashing Uncle Tom’s Cabin draws on the narratives, journals, and letters of enslaved and slaveholding antebellum women, research that led her to the story behind A Tangled Mercy. Living outside of Nashville, she and her husband have three children. To learn more about the author and her work, visit www.joyjordanlake.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader on October 15, 2022

About the book: “A quiet coastal village in post–World War II America is shaken when the secrets of the past and present collide in a riveting novel by the bestselling author of Under a Gilded Moon.” Amie previously worked as a photo interpreter, and she’s just returned home to Maine after the war. S......more

Goodreads review by Erin on August 27, 2022

Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free, electronic ARC of this novel received in exchange for an honest review. Expected publication date: September 6, 2022 After serving in the war as a photographic interpreter, Amie Stillwell returns to her home town in Maine, in hopes of......more

Goodreads review by Laura on May 01, 2022

This book started off well -- interesting characters, a lovely setting (small town in Maine), and some non-fatal but intriguing mysteries -- who left a small child alone in the town center with a note pinned to his coat? Who drove their car onto the tracks just before the local arrived, forcing our......more

Goodreads review by Judy on August 26, 2022

Joy Jordan-Lake returns following Under a Gilded Moon with A BEND OF LIGHT —set in a quaint coastal Maine fishing village in the 1950s, post–World War II America, a blending of historical fiction and tantalizing mystery as the dark secrets of the past and present are unraveled. Amie is a photo inter......more

Goodreads review by Susan on September 06, 2022

I love books set in Maine. There’s just something about the rugged coastline and the small, cozy towns that make a perfect atmosphere for a mystery. And that is precisely what you find in 𝐀 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. When Amie returns to her childhood home in Maine after serving as a WAC in WWII, she hopes to re......more

Quotes

“This tale of betrayal, deceit, and redemption satisfies.” —Publishers Weekly“Joy Jordan-Lake does a great job capturing the essence of Maine and the 1950s. She also develops a strong female character…it's refreshing to have a woman with better things to do (like get her life back together, open her own art gallery, and solve mysteries) than fall in love.” —Midwest Book Review“A marvelous novel of historical fiction full of emotion, suspense, and nuanced, evocative, and provocative writing. This is a fabulous tale that will stay with you long after you’ve turned the last page.” —M. J. Rose, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Tiara

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