• A Measured Thread

  • By: Mary Behan
  • Narrated by: Mary Behan
  • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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A Measured Thread

By: Mary Behan
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Looking back on her life, Maggie O'Connor is rightfully pleased. Fifty years ago, she left Ireland with a single suitcase and a dream. After a long and satisfying career, she is enjoying retirement on her farm in rural Wisconsin - until she falls.

Determined to regain her independence, she hires Isobel, a young woman who is also an emigrant. Helping Maggie clean the house, Isobel finds a cache of letters that Maggie wrote to her parents those many years ago and begins to read them aloud to Maggie.

But the letters contain a secret - one that Maggie has kept for 50 years. A secret that threatens to destroy her life and that of the people around her. With little time left, she must make a choice - give up, or face her past.

A Measured Thread is a powerful story that explores questions of guilt, abandonment, redemption, and the consequences of the choices we make.

©2020 Mary Behan (P)2020 Mary Behan

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Lovely story about life and loss.

I loved this audible book; I especially loved hearing the author's voice narration with her wonderful Irish accent. The author describes, in first person, the life of an eighty year-old retired professor now living in rural Wisconsin and facing the end of her life. The story was a poignant reminder that our lives are shaped by the decisions we make along the way. I loved the descriptions of the local community and landscape, as well as the locale descriptions during the professor's trip to Ireland. Thanks, Mary, for the beautiful tale!

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