The Final Service

By: Gary W. Moore

Narrated by: Pamela Klein

Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

Forty-year-old Sandy Richards is a successful music teacher, wife, and mother living a comfortable middle-class life in a small Midwestern town. But behind her warm smile and easy laugh is a heavy burden she cannot release.

During her childhood, Sandy (or "Shadow" as just about everyone knew her) was inseparable from her larger-than-life father, a World War II hero she adored. Sandy followed him everywhere, hung on his every word, and loved him with all her heart as only a young child can. It was more difficult to love him at some times than at others, especially when he was there and then he was gone - right in front of her eyes without ever leaving the house.

For reasons she would not fully understand until many years later, something went horribly wrong and their relationship fractured, seemingly forever, when her father died of lung cancer on one long, hot summer evening. His passing left Shadow alone to "sort through his warehouse of junk," an old storage facility jammed with emotions so overwhelming they balanced her on the edge of suicide. Then, when and where she needed him most, a stranger entered her life. And everything changed once more.

The Final Service offers a riveting story about human nature, emotional abandonment, and how unfulfilled dreams left a middle-aged woman on the brink of personal destruction until one event forever altered the core of her belief system and her life. It is a story of faith, family, and forgiveness, and the realization that forces larger and more powerful than ourselves are at work in our lives in ways we are unable to fully understand.

©2016 Savas Beatie (P)2016 Oasis Audio

Twice now this author has tugged at my soul...

Where does The Final Service rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

At the absolute top of my book ranking...

What other book might you compare The Final Service to and why?

"Playing with the Enemy" also reached my heart and stirred so many emotions...

Which character – as performed by Pamela Klein – was your favorite?

Sandy Richards the main character...

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Almost all of my emotions were in play...the book left me deeply in thought about my own relatives who I now recognise impacted me more than I can even know. The people of the depression-WW2 era survived and I am not often reminded of the attributes they shared of which I am so thankful.

Any additional comments?

Mr Moore is a very perceptive author who uses his gift to help all of understand the people in our lives who we may have misunderstood. He brings us to recognise that our parents/grandparents were so much like us but why we may not have understood why we are so much indebted to them...Thank you again Mr. Moore for opening my eyes even more... about those members of my own family who were of the greatest generation!