• Everything We Ever Wanted

  • A Novel
  • By: Sara Shepard
  • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
  • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
  • 3.4 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)

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Everything We Ever Wanted

By: Sara Shepard
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
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A recently widowed mother of two, Sylvie Bates-McAllister finds her life upended by a late-night phone call from the headmaster of the prestigious private school founded by her grandfather where her adopted son Scott teaches. Allegations of Scott's involvement in a hazing scandal cause a ripple effect, throwing the entire family into chaos. For Charles, Sylvie's biological son, it dredges up a ghost from the past who is suddenly painfully present. For his wife Joanna, it forces her to reevaluate everything she's hoped for in the golden Bates-McAllisters. And for Scott, it illuminates harsh truths about a world he has never truly felt himself a part of.

But for all the Bates-McAllisters, the call exposes a tangled web of secrets that ties the family together: the mystery of the school hazing, the event that tore Charles and Scott apart the night of their high school awards ceremony, and the intended recipient of a certain bracelet. The quest to unravel the truth takes the family on individual journeys across state lines, into hospitals, through the Pennsylvania woods, and face-to-face with the long-dormant question: what if the life you always planned for and dreamed of isn't what you want after all?

©2011 Sara Shepard (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers

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What happens when families don't talk

Essentially this book is about a group of people who's most firm connection to each other is their lack of communication. No one 'really' speaks to anyone. It's an allegory of how assumptions and fear leads to barriers.

A decent read - but not all that 'enjoyable'.

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Disjointed and highly annoying

There are few words that can describe how annoying this book was. There was absolutely no plot to speak of and each character annoyed me to tears.

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