Tapestry of Fortunes

Name: Tapestry of Fortunes
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth Berg
ISBN: 9781470347130

Author: Elizabeth Berg

Narrator: Barbara Caruso

Unabridged: 7 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/09/2013

Categories: Fiction, Women, Sagas

Synopsis

Cecilia Ross is looking for a change. She has decided to take time off from her job as a successful motivational speaker and sell her home. She moves in to a beautiful old house in St. Paul, Minnesota, complete with a big front porch, a wild garden, a chef's kitchen--and three roommates. The four women are different ages, but all are feeling restless, and want to take a roadtrip to find again the people and things they miss. One woman wants to connect with a daughter she gave away at birth; another wants to visit her long-absent ex-husband; a third woman, a professional chef, is seeking new inspiration from the restaurants along the way. And Cecilia is looking for Dennis Halsinger, the man she never got over, who recently sent her a postcard out of the blue. This novel is classic Elizabeth Berg--a portrait of how women grow through the relationships that define them, and a testament to the power of female friendship"

About Elizabeth Berg

Elizabeth Berg is the New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including The Year of Pleasures, The Art of Mending, Say When, True to Form, Never Change, and Open House, which was an Oprah’s Book Club selection in 2000. Durable Goods and Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year, and Talk Before Sleep was short-listed for the ABBY award in 1996. The winner of the 1997 New England Booksellers Award for her body of work, Berg is also the author of a nonfiction work, Escaping Into the Open: The Art of Writing True. She lives in Chicago.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gloria ~ on October 20, 2020

“There are times when you have to hurt badly in order to move. Otherwise you'll stay in a place you've outgrown.” Sitting down with a new Berg novel is like sitting down with an old friend who has lots to tell you about what she's been up to. In this latest endeavor, the main protagonist is Cecilia,......more

Goodreads review by Judith on July 13, 2013

You tell me what's wrong with this picture: a college graduate with no direction helps take care of a dying woman. After the woman dies, her husband hires the grad to be a motivational speaker for his multi-billion dollar company because he likes the way she dealt with his wife. She gets to go all o......more

Goodreads review by Linda on July 15, 2019

2.5 stars. A predictable, unrealistic story all tied up at the end with a pretty bow, but more like reading a too lengthy story one would find in a woman's magazine.......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on February 22, 2024

Her story of self-discovery, of reaching past what you know and are comfortable with, to searching for something even better.......more

Goodreads review by Dale on May 08, 2015

Three and a half stars. Elizabeth Berg has the knack of taking small moments and making them interesting, of making the ordinary seem somehow less so, while at the same time leaving the reader feel she can relate. Her books are filled with the minutiae of life. That said I wasn’t as enamoured of this......more