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The Road from Gap Creek
- Narrated by: Emma Galvin
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 08-27-13
- Language: English
- Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $21.39
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When Gap Creek was published in 1999, it became an instant national best seller, attracting hundreds of thousands of readers to the story of a marriage begun with love and hope at the turn of the 20th century. Set in the Appalachian South, it followed Julie and Hank Richards as they struggled through the first year and a half of their union. But what of the years following? What did the future hold for these memorable characters?
The Road to Gap Creek answers those questions, as Robert Morgan takes us back into the lives of Julie and Hank as well as their children, seen through the eyes of their youngest daughter, Annie. Through Annie we watch the four Richards children create their own histories, lives that include both triumph and hardship in the face of the Great Depression and World War II.
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- mamafish
- 01-12-16
Read gap creek
Sometimes sequels do not live up to the original. Narration was fine, but the start lacked the emotion and excitement of Gap Creek.
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