Family Tree, Susan Wiggs
Family Tree, Susan Wiggs
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Family Tree
A Novel

Author: Susan Wiggs

Narrator: Christina Traister

Unabridged: 12 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: William Morrow

Published: 08/09/2016


Synopsis

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a powerful, emotionally complex story of love, loss, the pain of the past—and the promise of the future.Sometimes the greatest dream starts with the smallest element. A single cell, joining with another. And then dividing. And just like that, the world changes. Annie Harlow knows how lucky she is. The producer of a popular television cooking show, she loves her handsome husband and the beautiful Los Angeles home they share. And now, she’s pregnant with their first child. But in an instant, her life is shattered. And when Annie awakes from a yearlong coma, she discovers that time isn’t the only thing she’s lost.Grieving and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback, Vermont, a maple farm generations old. There, surrounded by her free-spirited brother, their divorced mother, and four young nieces and nephews, Annie slowly emerges into a world she left behind years ago: the town where she grew up, the people she knew before, the high-school boyfriend turned judge. And with the discovery of a cookbook her grandmother wrote in the distant past, Annie unearths an age-old mystery that might prove the salvation of the family farm.Family Tree is the story of one woman’s triumph over betrayal, and how she eventually comes to terms with her past. It is the story of joys unrealized and opportunities regained. Complex, clear-eyed and big-hearted, funny, sad, and wise, it is a novel to cherish and to remember.

About Susan Wiggs

Susan Wiggs is the author of more than fifty novels, including the beloved Lakeshore Chronicles series and the recent New York Times bestsellers The Lost and Found Bookshop, The Oysterville Sewing Circle, and Family Tree. Her award-winning books have been translated into two dozen languages. She lives with her husband on an island in Washington State’s Puget Sound.


Reviews

Goodreads review by DJ on February 13, 2018

Favorite Quotes: It was one of those moments Gran used to call a key moment. Time didn’t simply tick past, unremarked, unnoticed. No, this was the kind of moment that made everything stop. You separated it from every other one, pressing the feeling to your heart, like a dried flower slipped between t......more

Goodreads review by Claire on July 28, 2016

5 - "There's before, and then after." Stars! Family Tree is the first book I have read by Susan Wiggs, it deals with the story of Annie Rush and in a really entertaining way. Told in the main from Annie’s POV, the story gives you her life pretty much from teen to present day, but sort of in a then &......more

Goodreads review by Amy on January 18, 2018

How was this my first Susan Wiggs book?! No seriously, she’s written more than fifty novels so the fact that I haven’t read any of her books before is blowing my mind. Family Tree had everything I look for in women’s fiction; a wonderful lead character who you can root for, a story that weaves betwe......more

Goodreads review by Sheyla ✎ on April 09, 2019

"The moment was made of something fragile and delicate, yet it possessed the power to last forever." What if you had to start over? What if your life was taken away from you and you had no say in how it happened? Would you welcome a second chance at starting over? All these questions are going......more

Goodreads review by Annie on January 20, 2018

This book had a lot of items on my cozy list. A beautiful Vermont farmhouse setting; wonderful descriptions of food and cooking; a warm, loving and wise grandma, etc. I would say though that I wasn't riveted by the story. There were times when I was glad to get back to it and other times that I just......more