When the Rain Ends

By: Mary Ellen Taylor

Narrated by: Megan Tusing

Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins

Publisher's summary

From The Brighter the Light author Mary Ellen Taylor comes an uplifting tale of hope and love between a mother and daughter as they learn that life is a masterpiece in the making.

When artist Dani Manchester learns she’s slowly losing her vision, she becomes unmoored. Her ex-husband died only months before, leaving Dani and her preteen daughter grief stricken. Suddenly, the life Dani built for her family on the Outer Banks feels like a painful reminder of all they’ve lost.

On a whim, Dani sells her waterfront home and buys an old farm inland near the Virginia state line. But Dani’s daughter recoils at the sudden, drastic change. The Outer Banks’ sun-swept beaches, pink dawns, and savage storms are all she’s ever known.

But Dani is resolute, and the pair move to Virginia to embark on a challenging renovation. That summer, their efforts to turn a run-down silo into an art studio bring forth new friends, new loves, and new challenges.

As mother and daughter navigate the fiercest storm of their lives, they learn that instead of waiting for the skies to clear, they can withstand the wind and rain, so long as they do it together.

©2023 Mary Burton (P)2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Excellent for Grievers

Dani is renovating silos for an art gallery on the outer Banks of NC. Her ex-husband’s death has devastated their 12 year old daughter. There is also a hunky boat builder carrying his own burdens. A youth grief camp brings clarity to adults, too.
Excellent descriptions of grieving and including helpful grief suggestions to us, as readers. As the mother of a son who died of cancer at 28, 4 years ago, I know whereof I speak.

Enjoyable!

Heartwarming story with great narrating! Will definitely check out more of Mary Ellen Taylor’s books!

Great story on handling grief

Good picture of how to handle grief and how not to handle it. Enjoyable read.

The narrator made it bearable!

The story plot was blah, very boring, not an engaging plot. I really wanted to like this book but I couldn’t…

Great story

I loved the children’s store line being told along with the adults. A great look at how grief effects people differently. It’s not a sad book but a going on to live

Enjoyable

I liked this book quite a bit.
I felt like I truly got to know the characters & the plot was interesting without being too heavy or complicated.

Good story about dealing with grief

I enjoyed the story and narration. Worth listening too. Grief is a difficult subject, the story had good ideas about how to deal with it. Enjoyed the characters.

Story of grief and family

Good story about grieving. Narrator did a great job with all the characters and accents!

Sweet story

This is a very sweet story about a mother and daughter and loss and love.

Blah

Not the author’s best. Story very predictable. Not much of a climax. Finished the book but was not a book I can’t stop listening to. However, the narrator was wonderful.