Family Tree

A Novel

By: Susan Wiggs

Narrated by: Christina Traister

Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

From the number one New York Times best-selling author comes a powerful, emotionally complex story of love, loss, the pain of the past - and the promise of the future.

Sometimes the greatest dream starts with the smallest element. A single cell joining with another. And then dividing. And just like that, the world changes.

Annie Harlow knows how lucky she is. The producer of a popular television cooking show, she loves her handsome husband and the beautiful Los Angeles home they share. And now she's pregnant with their first child. But in an instant, her life is shattered. And when Annie awakes from a yearlong coma, she discovers that time isn't the only thing she's lost.

Grieving and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback, Vermont, a maple farm generations old. There, surrounded by her free-spirited brother, their divorced mother, and four young nieces and nephews, Annie slowly emerges into a world she left behind years ago: the town where she grew up, the people she knew before, the high school boyfriend turned judge. And with the discovery of a cookbook her grandmother wrote in the distant past, Annie unearths an age-old mystery that might prove the salvation of the family farm.

Family Tree is the story of one woman's triumph over betrayal and how she eventually comes to terms with her past. It is the story of joys unrealized and opportunities regained. Complex, clear eyed, and big hearted, funny, sad, and wise, it is a novel to cherish and to remember.

©2016 Susan Wiggs (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers

Starting Over Again

The characters in this novel were redeeming and their struggle is identifiable by many. Childhood family issues can definitely have an impact on adult choices. The development and flow of this story over time gave it credibility. Great read.

Enjoyed

But dragged at times. Good narration, story, just not my favorite. Nice one for car ride

Completely lost in the story

A great escape! Lost in the story didn’t want to stop listening. upbeat! nice quotes to remember to brighten your day

a very good book

the book shows that it is never too late to start over and what is really important family.

Loved it!

Such a warm and sweet story about family, love, success, and new beginnings! Heartwarming. Romantic.

Starting From Scratch

This love story has so many levels. All the characters experience ups and downs, love lost and found again. Most of all Annie and Fletcher. The narrator does a good job but the sound quality is lacking. The male voices are so quiet you have to rewind and turn it up to hear them only to be blasted by the female voices.

The way she developed the characters

It was a really good book! We loved it and look forward to listening to another of her books.

So hard to rate that I had to review

This book was well written, but I'm not a fan of jumping around in time and jumping from one person's perspective to another.

As a person who is actually the age of the main character, and from a small town not far from the setting of this novel, I have to tell you it felt like this story was being written by someone much older who doesn't have much experience with our generation. We are, after all, the first wave of millennials.

The details regarding the parents falling in and out of love were ultimately unnecessary as they didn't change the story of the main character beyond her being a cynical child of divorce.

All in al, I won't re-read this book, but I finished it because I needed to know the final outcome.

Amazing

Food, family, hope, and struggle it was an amazing story. The narrator was perfect highly recommended.

the first Susan Wiggs book I was able to put down

I absolutely love Susan Wiggs' work. usually I cannot stop listening to her stories. I get so wrapped up in the characters. This was the first one of her books I did not feel that way. While it was still a good book, I do not feel as if it was one of her best.