The Hurricane Sisters

A Novel

De: Dorothea Benton Frank

Narrado por: Robin Miles

Hurricane season begins early and rumbles all summer long, well into September. Often people's lives reflect the weather and The Hurricane Sisters is just such a story.

Once again New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank takes us deep into the heart of her magical South Carolina Lowcountry on a tumultuous journey filled with longings, disappointments, and, finally, a road toward happiness that is hard earned. There we meet three generations of women buried in secrets. The determined matriarch, Maisie Pringle, at eighty, is a force to be reckoned with because she will have the final word on everything, especially when she's dead wrong. Her daughter, Liz, is caught up in the classic maelstrom of being middle-age and in an emotionally demanding career that will eventually open all their eyes to a terrible truth. And Liz's beautiful twenty-something daughter, Ashley, whose dreamy ambitions of her unlikely future keeps them all at odds.

Luckily for Ashley, her wonderful older brother, Ivy, is her fierce champion but he can only do so much from San Francisco where he resides with his partner. And Mary Beth, her dearest friend, tries to have her back but even she can't talk headstrong Ashley out of a relationship with an ambitious politician who seems slightly too old for her.

Actually, Ashley and Mary Beth have yet to launch themselves into solvency. Their prospects seem bleak. So while they wait for the world to discover them and deliver them from a ramen-based existence, they placate themselves with a hare-brained scheme to make money but one that threatens to land them in huge trouble with the authorities.

So where is Clayton, Liz's husband? He seems more distracted than usual. Ashley desperately needs her father's love and attention but what kind of a parent can he be to Ashley with one foot in Manhattan and the other one planted in indiscretion? And Liz, who's an expert in the field of troubled domestic life, refuses to acknowledge Ashley's precarious situation. Who's in charge of this family? The wake-up call is about to arrive.

The Lowcountry has endured its share of war and bloodshed like the rest of the South, but this storm season we watch Maisie, Liz, Ashley, and Mary Beth deal with challenges that demand they face the truth about themselves. After a terrible confrontation they are forced to rise to forgiveness, but can they establish a new order for the future of them all?

Frank, with her hallmark scintillating wit and crisp insight, captures how a complex family of disparate characters and their close friends can overcome anything through the power of love and reconciliation. This is the often hilarious, sometimes sobering, but always entertaining story of how these unforgettable women became The Hurricane Sisters.

Not so interesting. Predictable .

Nice job narrating. Story a traditional "happily ever after". Story not of much interest.

Job Well Done Robin can not wait to hear the next

Love the way Robin Miles resents the charters she brings them to life. Miles does such a good job and I truly love listening to her.

Love, love, love

I really enjoyed this book it kept you interested until the end! I would recommend reading!!!

Fabulous, fun!

This was an enjoyable read! It covered a serious topic with grace and some humor. The characters were almost larger than life but their hearts were sure! Miss Frank did it again.

Great message

I really love the rich characters . How each character is developed throughout the book. I can see myself and my girlfriends in some of these strong women.

Hurricanne?

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

A little too much message and not enough story!

If you’ve listened to books by Dorothea Benton Frank before, how does this one compare?

Not even close to her other novels!

What about Robin Miles’s performance did you like?

She read it beautifully!

Could you see The Hurricane Sisters being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

No!

Enjoyable!

Typical DBF but I enjoy her writing style and her story lines. Robin Miles is not my favorite narrator but she is tolerable.

Predictable

Dorothea Benton Frank is one of my favorite authors....I will buy anything that she writes knowing that it I will thoroughly enjoy it.. That being said, I would've been better off reading this book. The narrator was so over the top in her depiction of southern accents (and I live in the south), that at times I flirted with the idea of returning my Audible copy and buying the hard copy.
The story was predictable, but it wasn't "a who done it" so it really doesn't matter. Ms. Frank writes about real people with real problems, and, as in life the outcome of many situations is "predictable".

Skip this one and buy the printed version.

excellent as always!

Ms. Frank always weaves a colorful tale, but unlike some other writers that are considered her contemporaries, the story always involves a current issue of importance. This was a great book, funny, poiniant and throughly entertaining!

To the end

Don't give up on the story. if you make it through to the end it all comes together nicely.