The Beach Trees, Karen White
The Beach Trees, Karen White
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The Beach Trees
a novel

Author: Karen White

Narrator: Gin Hammond, Ki Gottberg

Unabridged: 15 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2025

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Women

Synopsis

When struggling artist Morgan Guidry dies of a heart defect, she leaves custody of her young son, Beau, to her friend Ellie Holt, along with half of her Biloxi house and a portrait of a woman. In Biloxi, Ellie makes contact with the Guidrys, who are interested in knowing how she came to own the portrait, as Morgan stole it from her grandmother, Aimee. The woman in the painting is Carolyn Guidry, Aimee’s mother-in-law, and as Aimee tells her story, starting when she met the Guidrys in 1950, Ellie’s questions to Morgan’s past are slowly answered.

About Karen White

Karen White has been narrating audiobooks since 1999, with more than two hundred to her credit. Honored to be included in AudioFile's Best Voices and Speaking of Audiobooks's Best Romance Audio 2012 and 2013, she is also an Audie Award finalist and has earned multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and Library Journal starred reviews. She currently lives with her family in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Publishers Weekly says of Karen's narration of Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick, "Karen White delivers a stunning reading, her character interpretations are confident and well-rounded, and she forges a strong bond with the audience."

Speaking of Audiobooks says, "Karen is one of my auto-buy narrators-if I think a book may interest me, her narration will sway me to give it a try."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melissa on August 11, 2013

Ok, here's the thing. It was a gripping read. I debated on 3 or 4 stars, but ultimately decided that I since I really, really wanted to find out what happened, that was saying something. I have five main issues: 1) The historical part of the story was fantastic. However, the newer story in the book w......more

Goodreads review by Lizz on June 21, 2011

I have been sitting here since I finished the book trying to come up with a good review. I just keep coming back to.... Wow. I love Karen White's books, but this is my absolute favorite. I found myself torn between wanting to keep reading to find out what happened, and wanting to read more slowly so......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on March 06, 2013

After finishing THE BEACH TREES, I longed for more of the story, and to go and see what New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are like. I closed the book, and it was as though I'd left some good friends behing! Karen White's THE BEACH TREES is an excellent and compelling read! It begins with Julie, who has......more

Goodreads review by Cherie on July 17, 2012

It's one thing to have a facility with words, and it's another to construct an engrossing story with a smooth release of information. Ms White is a wordsmith, but much of the time in this novel there were too many of them, and too much reading the expressions of people, along the lines of "behind hi......more

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