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Tess Gregory's brilliant career as a research scientist hides her longings for husband and child. Though deaf, she is a free spirit -- a woman full of life and love. She is struck down all too soon.
But for Tess, a new life begins at her death, in post-Civil War America. She is now Amarylis Rafferty, wife and mother of three -- and she can hear. Shocked and disoriented by her new surroundings, she is drawn into the savage heartache burdening the family, especially her husband, Jack, a man who fears himself capable of anything.
But for Tess, a new life begins at her death, in post-Civil War America. She is now Amarylis Rafferty, wife and mother of three -- and she can hear. Shocked and disoriented by her new surroundings, she is drawn into the savage heartache burdening the family, especially her husband, Jack, a man who fears himself capable of anything.
- Format: MassMarketPaperback
- Author: Hannah, Kristin
- ISBN: 9780449148389
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 6.80 x 1.00
- Number Of Pages: 416
- Publication Year: 1992
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“Keep your houses locked tight. There’s a murderer on the loose–and he might be one of us.”
Jennifer E. - 3 years 7 months ago“Keep your houses locked tight. There’s a murderer on the loose–and he might be one of us.” Once in Every Life is based on the memoirs of Kristin Hannah’s great-aunt-in-law Delilah in San Juan Island in 1873. The Civil War “had to have been the most psychologically devastating of any war. Brothers, fathers, uncles, friends, all fighting one another, face-to-face. Killing one another…He couldn’t talk about his past, couldn’t reopen wounds that were held together with unraveling threads of fear…No one in this century could help Jack. It was up to someone with the knowledge of the future. It was up to Tess…He was the man she’d chosen in the theater of second chances.” “Some people think that after death, a soul can…change bodies and get another life. Some of these people believe that time doesn’t really exist, that everything–past, present, and future–is actually happening now…In the past week she’d been hit by a bus, given birth, and died…She was no longer the Tess Gregory who melted into the background. Now she was Lissa Rafferty…And she had no choice but to succeed.” “She’d waited and hoped for someone to invite her into the family…It was time to make her own invitation…Where strangers had once been, there was now a family. She didn’t have to be strong for them; she had to be strong with them. From now on, they’d be facing a lifetime’s worth of good times and bad. Miracles and tragedies. And they could battle them one at a time, each of them stronger for taking hold of the other.” But “When you don’t believe there's good inside you, you’re all too willing to believe there’s bad…She could believe in him forever, love him for all time, and it would never be enough. Not if he didn't believe in himself…He’d found something of value within him. All he had to do now was cling to the kernel of hope he’d found.” After fulfilling her purpose and being offered a chance to return to her old life in 1973, Tess resolves, “I don’t want to go back to another woman’s past. I want to go forward…into a future that’s all ours…not of passion sated, but of promises made.”
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Jennifer B W. - 4 years 3 months agoVery disappointing! The characters were unappealing and predictable. The author usually puts out better books than this. Maybe she has just improved a lot recently. This was one of her older novels. I do not recommend this one. Read The Four Winds or The Nightingale instead.