Ilsa, Madeleine LEngle
Ilsa, Madeleine LEngle
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Ilsa

Author: Madeleine L'Engle

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Unabridged: 10 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 05/15/2018

Synopsis

A novel about the darker side of love by the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time and the Crosswicks Journals.From the moment Henry Porcher first sees Ilsa Brandes, he worships her. Despite controversy surrounding the young girl, Henry is drawn to her, a fascination that turns into a lifelong infatuation.As the years pass, Ilsa’s memory never leaves him, not until the day he returns to their sleepy Southern hometown and renews their childhood friendship. Henry watches as she becomes a wife, then a mother, then a widow, irrevocably changed by tragedy.This rare and sought-after novel is a portrait of a remarkable woman bound by both the stifling conventions of her time and place, and her own sense of honor and purpose.A departure from L’Engle’s later works, Ilsa is a dark, intriguing novel about passion, fixation, and the real price of unrequited love by an author renowned for her children’s classics as well as her candid personal memoirs.

About Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L’Engle, the popular author of many books for children and adults, interspersed her writing and teaching career with raising three children, maintaining an apartment in New York and a farmhouse of charming confusion which is called “Crosswicks.”

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bookgasms on March 14, 2017

I have loved the books of Madeleine L'Engle since childhood, and even now those old paperbacks have an honorary place on my bookshelf, despite being worse for wear. Tattered covers, dog eared pages, those are the books that I read over and over again. When it came time to read Ilsa, I was as eager a......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on July 02, 2024

***** I often think of books randomly and will then realize I was reading it that time of year the year before. I’ve been thinking about Ilsa for at least a week now, and I realize I started it on 7/1/23. I actually miss this book. I want to go back to it, to Ilsa’s home on the beach, to the fragile......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on February 21, 2017

Everything in this compelling and very readable novel centres on Ilsa, a young woman who becomes an obsession for one of her neighbours, Henry, and it his unrequited love for her that powers the narrative. It’s an atmospheric novel, set in the American south in the early part of the 20th century, wh......more

Goodreads review by Byron on January 17, 2019

The rare life-changing, new favorite read! This novel came into my life because it was on sale. Pure and simple, the eBook was on sale, and after looking into it, I took the plunge. But it came into my life at the perfect moment. And I can't overstate how much I have loved being within its pages. I'm......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on February 20, 2024

At first I wasn’t sure I would make it through 300+ pages of the novel, despite my major literary crush on Madeleine L’Engle. Stories set in the South during this time period often feel suffocating to me. However, I found myself drawn in to this novel as a study of human character and place, more so......more

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