The Taste of Air, Gail Cleare
The Taste of Air, Gail Cleare
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The Taste of Air

Author: Gail Cleare

Narrator: Marnye Young

Unabridged: 8 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/24/2017

Categories: Fiction, Women, Family Life


Synopsis

USA Today Bestseller "In The Taste of Air, Cleare deftly explores the consequence of our choices, even those made with the best of intentions. A family saga bridging decades and filled with shocking revelations, hope and love, you won't be able put this book down." Kate Moretti, author of NYT Bestseller Thought I Knew You"In this terrific novel, when two women learn their mother wasn't who they thought she was it leads them to question their own lives and choices. Deftly written, with lush descriptions of the New England setting, this is a book to choose as a companion for curling up on a sofa on a dark winter day or for laying on the beach in the summer. The Taste of Air is character-driven fiction at its best." Ann Warner, author of The Babbling Brook Naked Poker Club seriesA simple phone call disrupts Nell Williams’s well-ordered life. Her mother, Mary, is in a hospital in Vermont. But her mother is supposed to be safely tucked away in an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, so Nell can’t fathom why she would be so far from home.After notifying her sister, Bridget, Nell hops on a plane and rushes to her mother’s side. There, she discovers that her mother has been living a second life. Mary has another home and a set of complex relationships with people her daughters have never met.When Nell and Bridget delve deeper into their mother’s lakeside hideaway, they uncover a vault of family secrets and the gateway to change for all three women.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Norma ~ The Sisters on January 16, 2019

Heartwarming, delightful & touching! THE TASTE OF AIR by GAIL CLEARE was such a comforting, uplifting, and enjoyable read that had so much warmth flowing through the pages of this book. I immediately felt a connection to the authors writing style and thought this story was so tastefully told. It wrap......more

Goodreads review by Debra on November 19, 2018

Nell receives a phone call one day informing her that her Mother was in a hospital in Vermont. What is even more shocking is that her mother is supposed to be in an assisted living home/facility in Massachusetts. Just how the heck did she get to Vermont and why was she there? After Nell informs her......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on January 03, 2017

Nell Williams receives a phone call informing her that her mother, Mary, has been admitted into the hospital in Vermont. Not only is her mother's health a real concern for Nell but just why in the world was her mother even in Vermont is the big question, Mary was supposed to be in an assisted-living......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews on June 14, 2024

Getting a phone call that your mother is in the hospital is frightening enough, but learning that the hospital is in Vermont and only a few miles from your mother's home when she lives in Massachusetts is quite puzzling for Nell. Nell quickly made her way to Vermont, and Nell's sister, Bridget, would......more

Goodreads review by Ell on June 03, 2018

The Taste of Air is a fabulous and intriguing story about choices and consequences, secrets and revelations. Two sisters find out that their elderly mother is in the ICU of a Vermont hospital when they believed her to be living in a Massachusetts retirement home. The secret choices of their mother a......more