Dwelling Place

By: Elizabeth Musser

Narrated by: Julia Gibson

Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

In the sequel to ABA best-seller The Swan House, Ellie Middleton must deal with her troubled relationship with her mother before it's too late. Mary Swan is battling cancer. Ellie, just out of drug rehab, is the only one who can care for her. As they work to mend their broken relationship, they finally come to terms with their past through faith. Ellie realizes that her mother's life hasn't been as perfect as she once thought.

©2005 Elizabeth Musser (P)2005 Recorded Books, LLC

Beautiful story!

I read this book years ago when it was published but with the release of the third book last year, I wanted to reread The Swan House and The Dwelling Place. I loved this beautiful story of forgiveness and redemption. The audio book was well done and did the story justice. Elizabeth Musser is a master storyteller. I have loved all of her books I have read and look forward to each new one. I highly suggest you read The Swan House, The Dwelling Place, and The Promised Land.

Good follow up

This was a good follow up to The Swan House. It took awhile for me to like the main character, but once I did, I couldn’t quit listening. Simple, sweet, redeeming, but good heavens, we don’t really drink THAT much Coke in Atlanta!

Wonderful novel about family and forgiveness, mixed together with love and friendship.

This is a great second book in the trilogy and I am looking forward to the third one.

Beautiful story

A story of pain, hurts, misunderstandings, forgiveness, friendships, healing, parental deep love finally understood. Really good. It slowly goes through an adult woman’s life of hate, bitterness, and the softening of her heart and allow God in and heal a lifetime of pain and brokenness and she received true joy through the love of her dying mother which is what she so desperately needed and wanted. It was always there but misconceptions prevented it from being felt or known.

Inspiring story following an inspiring story

The story was hard to stop listening too. An inspirational story that left me wanting to spend more time with the characters. A faith based story that is so real and relevant for the world we live in.

Intriguing

Such a good writer. Makes you feel like you’re in the story. Great character development.

An unforgettable book

Elizabeth Musser is an incredible storyteller. The Swan House, the sequel to this book, captured my attention to the author with a wonderful story of Atlanta in the 60’s. This continuation of that story set many years later draws you into the confusion and rebellion of the daughter. A beautiful story of struggle, anger and rebellion and its effect on the main character and her family is identifiable by all of us one way or another. You won’t want to miss the blessing of seeing this family’s faith and unconditional love as Ellie resists but then surrenders.

great christian book

I bought this book on the recommdation of a friend. I am so glad I did. it was well worth the money.

Perfect again!

Just a perfect follow-up to the first book in this series! I loved this story as much, or maybe even more, than "The Swan House"!

Not the authors best story

This is my least favorite of Mussers books. It’s very slow moving. I keep waiting for it to get interesting but I am almost finished. The story is told through the eyes of Swans youngest daughter when Swan is recovering from cancer. The daughter has a huge chip on her shoulder, continually whines and hates God. She repeats her tales of woe over and over. Swans cancer is a depressing addition to the story. The daughter is supposed to be helping her mom while learning about her life. Part of Swans life is a good story, but the day to day details of her illness are not. Supposedly healing is to take place in the relationship but it is taking a very long time while the same difficulties are whined about. The first book is this series The Swan house, is fabulous, the third is just ok, and this one is just plain boring. I don’t even think I want to finish it.