Islands

De: Anne Rivers Siddons

Narrado por: Dana Ivey

“Anne Rivers Siddons’s novels are women’s stories in the best sense, pulling you into the internal landscape of her characters’ lives and holding you there.” – People

A poignant novel of the love that unites us and the secrets that drive us apart, Islands is New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons at her lyrical best—a glorious evocation of the people and the place she knows so well.

Anny Butler is a caretaker, a nurturer, first for her own brothers and sisters, and then as a director of an agency devoted to the welfare of children. What she has never had is a real family. That changes when she meets and marries Lewis Aiken, an exuberant surgeon fifteen years older than Anny. When they marry, she finds her family—not a traditional one, but a group of Charleston childhood friends who are inseparable, who are one another's surrogate family. They are called the Scrubs, and they all, in some way, have the common cord of family.

Instantly upon meeting them at the old beach house on Sullivan's Island, which they co-own, Anny knows that she has found home and family. They vow that, when the time comes, they will find a place where they can live together by the sea.

Bad things begin to happen—a hurricane, a fire, deaths—but still the remaining Scrubs cling together. They are watched over and bolstered by Camilla Curry, the heart and core of their group, always the healer. Anny herself allows Camilla to enfold and to care for her. It is the first time she has felt this kind of love and support.

©2004 Anne Rivers Siddons; (P)2005 HarperCollinsPublishers, Inc.

Friends, Love, Wealth and Betrayal

I can’t stop thinking about this book. It is gracious and well written with a thread of nostalgia through it. Loved the plot twists and turns. It would make a fabulous TV Movie!

So Comfortable

The reader makes the characters and Charleston, SC come to life. Her descriptions makes you totally immersed in the low country, marsh, river and the”Battery”. Well worth delving into.

Not Anne Rivers Siddons

I am a huge Anne Rivers Siddons fan. She became my favorite author when I was 27. The first book that I read was on a 26 hour drive as the passenger in a U-Haul, moving from Oklahoma to Connecticut with my fiance'. She remains my favorite author at the age of 62. I would HATE for anyone to judge her from this book, move on and miss what made me fall in love. I spent time every Summer at Cape Cod, moved to Georgia in mid-life due to her. I went to Buckhead and Peachtree. She was able to make me fall in love with these places. This book was so confusing. I've asked myself if I was possibly distracted and need to start over and listen again. I can't mention how many times I unsuccessfully listened to chapters over and over. Unlike most of Anne Rivers Siddons' books. I found this story to be very depressing. It didn't help that it was near impossible to follow along with the narrator. She sounds just like Reba McEntire reading a book and unable to change her voice for different characters, rather a character, factitious, is reading a story to you. I often found myself with no idea what was going on, because the narrator had lost me a half chapter back.I am going to listen to this again but have little hope for changing my mind.

Great Voice!

Dana Ivey was fabulous! I would love to hear more books read that she reads.

WONDERFUL

WONDERFUL writer, wonderful story, wonderful words, wonderful narrator! i had forgotten how much I adore Anne Rivers Siddons. Read all her books when they first came out; all these years later (at 73), I'm enjoying them alll all again . :)