Susannahs Garden, Debbie Macomber
Susannahs Garden, Debbie Macomber
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Susannah's Garden

Author: Debbie Macomber

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Unabridged: 9 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2006


Synopsis

It was the year that changed everything.When Susannah Nelson turned eighteen, she said goodbye to her boyfriend, Jake—and never saw him again. She never saw her brother again, either. Doug died in a car accident that same year.Now, at fifty, she finds herself regretting the paths not taken. Long married, a mother and a teacher, she should be happy. But she feels there's something missing in her life, although she doesn't know exactly what. Not only that, she's balancing the demands of an aging mother and a temperamental twenty-year-old daughter. Her mother, Vivan, a recent widow, is having difficulty coping and living alone, so Susannah goes home to Colville, Washington. In returning to her parents' house, her girlhood friends and the garden she's always loved, she also returns to the past—and the choices she made back then. What she discovers is that things are not as they once seemed. Some paths are dead ends. But some gardens remain beautiful….

About Debbie Macomber

How many people follow the dream they had as a child growing up? American Women's Fiction and Romance novelist, Debbie Macomber did just that. She realized that it was her dream to become a writer from the time she was in fourth grade. She did not act upon that dream (for fear of rejection) until she was 30 years old, and the mother of four children. She submitted many manuscripts, but all were rejected. She attended a romance writers conference, where one of her manuscripts, Heartsong, was selected to be critiqued by an editor from Harlequin Enterprises, Inc. Of course, that editor ripped her work to shreds with his criticism, and recommended she throw it away! Instead, she gathered the $10 fee and submitted the same manuscript to Harlequin's competitor, Silhouette Books. They published the manuscript, and Macomber's illustrious writing career began in earnest.

Debbie Macomber overcame her dyslexia to become one of the most prolific authors of romance novels. She sat in her kitchen, with four children, tapping out her work on an ordinary typewriter. At her peak writing, she was releasing two or three titles per year, with her first hardcover novel being released in 2001.

Most women today are very familiar with Macomber's current works, especially those that have been made into Hallmark Channel movies and series. The Christmas movies.......Debbie Macomber's Mrs. Miracle, Call Me Mrs. Miracle, and Trading Christmas.....have become iconic Christmas features. The Cedar Cove series was also a hit with not only Debbie Macomber fans, but Hallmark fans in general.

Macomber and her husband raised their four children, and now have grandchildren. They still live in Port Orchard, Washington, but now winter in Florida.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Heather on August 25, 2008

This is a book that you are supposed to read befor "Back on Blossome Street" It isn't part of the series but yet it is. I was a little upset with having to read the whole thing to finelly figure out in the end why I should read it befor the final book in the series. Like I said you don't have to rea......more

Goodreads review by Khumar on August 25, 2016

Debbie Macomber kitablarında ən sevdiyim şey kitabın son səhifələrinə gələndə üzümdə yaranan o gülümsəmədi. :) Hər şeyin yaxşı olacağına əmin olduğumu göstərir o gülümsəmə. :)......more

Goodreads review by Carol on July 13, 2016

I picked this up at a library book sale and read it while emptying my mother's storage unit. I wanted something light at the end of the day. This was oddly parallel to my daily tasks - Susannah goes to her childhood home to move her mother with memory issues. You would think I would want to avoid a......more

Goodreads review by Sally on August 20, 2022

Picked this book at our local book exchange. It wasn’t thrilling or unexpected and moderately annoying. I will choose more carefully next visit.......more