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Summary: An incredibly touching story.
Review: This book was so powerful to me. It was an easy read that just consumes you. The story of Hannah and Conary was so touching that it took you right along with it until the end. You'll be thinking about this story for days after you finish.
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Summary: An excellent book
Review: I really enjoyed this book...a wonderful ghost story within a love story. Hauntingly beautiful.
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Summary: Compelling Read!
Review: I have just finished this book and have to congragulate the author Beth Gutcheon. A longtime reader of this author, I found More Than You Know totally different from her other books and applaud her ability to change both tone and style of this title. Paralleling two tragic stories, Ms.Guthecon allows her readers to glimpse life in small town Maine almost 100 years apart with an equally paralleling story. The reader not only comes to know the characters well but also the landscape of the island and town. The story, while sad, has wondrous moments of first love and devotion. Finally, I found the book fairly reminiscent of The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve, another very compelling and different read.
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Summary: A HIGHLY recommended read.
Review: I cannot remember the last time a book moved me as much as "More Than You Know". I finished it at 3 AM this morning as I simply found it impossible to put down. It brought back so many bittersweet feelings of my first real love that I was absolutely enchanted. I plan to read each and every other book Beth Gutcheon has written. I wish I could say "thank you" to her personally!
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Summary: I have a question
Review: If you haven't read the book yet, do not read this review. I am perplexed by the ending and everyone wondering who the ghost is. Isn't it Claris? If so, what keeps people from thinking that would be the case the whole way throught the novel?
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Summary: A Great Read!
Review: Beth Gutcheon's latest book is wonderfully insightful and delightful to read. Her descriptions of Hannah's childhood, of Claris's first romance are full of detail that rings true to my own experience. Her description of a small town on the Maine coast also rings true - as if you could visit Dundee this summer and be right at home there. The story is fast-moving, a real page-turner. I had to put it down deliberately so that it wouldn't be over too soon. I have read all of Ms. Gutcheon's books and enjoyed every one, but this one may be my favorite.
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Summary: Where Ghosts Come From
Review: This wonderful novel is a lightning-fast read, but its underlying messages continue to resonate. Gutcheon makes a case, very subtly, that the dead return when they've been thwarted in life. They may be driven by jealousy of those who are alive and happy. She also does a terrific portrait of a living person -- a wicked stepmother -- who is as unhappy and jealous as the novel's tortured ghost. The bitter characters, alive or dead, are set against two young lovers. There are a couple of passages about their complete, and painfully shortlived, happiness -- a sail to a once-inhabited Maine island, an afternoon at the county fair -- that could make you weep if you have similar summer memories. Then again, they might make you weep if you don't.
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Summary: Simply the Best
Review: I agree 100% with the first review of this book. The writing is excellent, the story is captivating. A must read.
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Summary: More Than Just a Ghost Story
Review: Gutcheon's latest novel is a departure from her previous "women's books" The New Girls and Five Fortunes, although More Than You Know is just as masterfully written.Chapters alternate from narrator Hannah Ober's recalling from the perspective of old age her own tragic first love to the ghost's own story of a century before, but until the book's end, the reader is kept guessing at the ghost's identity. However, what might have been simply a ghost story with a romantic element transcends that genre to delve into why some relationships simply cannot succeed no matter how much we may wish they would. Anyone who has never forgotten that totally unsuitable first love will find this sparely but powerfully written novel entrancing.
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Summary: Beloievable ghost story and great interweaving of tales
Review: There have already been a lot of reviews of this book, so I'll just mention a few things. If you tell me about the supernatural, you're preaching to the choir. But this ghost story REALLY scared me, using the premise the dead can hurt you and worse. I actually left the light on last night. The writing is beautiful, but what impressed me most was that the author was telling two interrelated stories alternately, in different time periods, and managed to make both of them interesting without becoming an annoying distraction to the reader. This is not easy to do and I have read a lot of books where the author is less than successful at it. This is the fourth book I have read by this author, and I think it's the best. Definitely read this, but not at home alone on a dark and stormy night.
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