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Summary: must read
Review: i found the cover to be an interesting draw to the book. Ms. Gutcheon has a wonderful rapport with her characters and is able to enhance the readers ability to visualize all characters in both the past and present. I found the use of the different fonts to be an enhancement of the ability to go back and forth from the present to the past. I found her depiction of the island and where the town had once been amazingly easy to visualize and to transport me back to a time gone by. The author envelopes you in her web and leaves one transfixed until the last word. Excellent read. Look forward to reading more of her published works. I, personally, have found another great woman author who is able to hold my interest until the final word.
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Summary: Surprisingly great summer read
Review: "More than you know" was lent to me at a swim meet, during the down time in between races. I didn't know what to expect, having never read anything by the author before; was I in for a treat! I enjoyed the Maine setting, and the historical perspective that the story within a story provided. The main character is full of life, at any age during the story, and she made me interested in her, her story, and her town. The tenderness and respect she showed for her husband was so real and deep. Her feelings for him made her feelings for Connie all the more intense. I never anticipated any suspense in the novel and because of this, I spent a night reading because I couldn't go to sleep when I tried. This book is a perfect summer get away book, that can be read during any season, and it made me realize that I have to take my children's feelings seriously, at any age, something I had forgotten, becasue it is true that some of our most intensely felt relationships occur during that tumultous time of youth when we're sure we know everything and are totally in over our heads.
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Summary: Truly more than you know.
Review: Recently I recognized that I was the point of connection between 5 generations. I know the little secrets and big efforts made by each of these generations. Because of this, I especially appreciated the interweaving of time and the characters of this story. A book of love stories, broken hearts, people with stoic acceptance of their fates covering several generations of time with people as strong as the rocks and mesmerizing as the sea on the shore. That and a ghost story makes this a book difficult to leave, even when it ends.
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Summary: Excellent Summer Read!
Review: Gutcheon's story has all the elements of an engrossing leisure-time read: a believable ghost, mystery, suspense, and a dash of romance. Readers get a vivid glimpse into Maine's coastal and island communities, in the days before they became tourist attractions. The flawed characters are appealing; the pacing makes it easy to go back and forth between the two time periods which the story covers; and the ending is satisfying in a "real life" kind of way. I'm recommending it to my friends.
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Summary: Surprised
Review: I was pleasantly surprised! This book was sitting on the coffee table of a friend's house- I picked it up one evening and was captivated! I believe that her husband is a well-known quilt maker- another of my hobbies! I loved the book! And was very surprised at it's depth-for what it's worth-coming from a Maine reader-I absolutely adore: Beth Gutcheon, Michael Kimball, and Tabitha King!!
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Summary: A GUILTY PLEAURE THAT'S GOOD FOR YOU TOO
Review: I found this book to be an utter joy to read. It has an engaging supernatural set-up that pulls you through parallel story lines set in different eras, both having a pleasent "good old days" quality. The setting of the novel, Maine in both the 1930's and in the early 1800's, are both great periods to be immersed into. The one distraction I found in the novel was that sometimes I felt just as I was absorbed into one of the story lines, Ms. Gutcheon would shift gears, and take me back to her present. This book is deffinately a cut above a typical mystery, yet written in a very accesible and pleasent voice. Great for a cozy weekend read or for the beach.
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Summary: Captivating
Review: This book starts out with Hannah Gray Ober, now elderly, as she describes the town of Dundee and the schoolhouse (which came from a now-deserted island) that is haunted by the malevolent spirit of an old woman. She knows it is haunted because she lived there one hot summer with her stepmother, Edith and her brother, Stephen. The story bounces back to the mid-eighteen hundreds when Claris Osgood celebrated her tenth birthday, when even then, she felt like an outcast within her own family. More Than You Know continues like this, bouncing between Hannah Gray and Claris Osgood Haskall. Hannah, then a teenaged girl, is dealing with her step-mother's harsh attitude while trying to solve the mystery surrounding the schoolhouse where she is living. With the help of the town badboy, Conary Crocker, and some of the townsfolk of Dundee, she starts to unravel the mystery surrounding the murder of Daniel Haskall, husband to Claris Osgood and father of Sallie. Claris marries Danial Haskall against her family's wishes and moves to the island across the bay. She soon finds herself disillusioned with Danial and his way of life, but finds herself stuck. After several stillborns, she gives birth to two children, Amos and Sallie. Amos is obviously her favorite, while Sallie is often ignored because she looks so much like her father. Amos dies after an argument with his father, which sends him into the bay in a storm. This sets the stage for Danial's grisly murder, which Sallie is blamed for. She is tried twice, but never convicted. Nobody is sure who commited the murder--Sallie, Claris, or Mercy Chatto, the schoolteacher whom Danial impregnated. Hannah, in the meantime, falls in love with Conary despite the town's disapproval. They are halfway through the mystery when the summer ends. Hannah is depressed because she has to leave for Boston to go with her father. After a beautiful day at the State Fair, she tries to convince Conary to run away with her. He thinks it is better that they go home. On their way, they see a woman walking along the side of the road and stop to pick her up. It is the ghost of the Haskall woman (which one still remains a mystery), who exacts her revenge. While Hannah's story is sad, Claris and Sallie's is truly horrifying. I couldn't put the book down. I've never read any of Beth Gutcheon's other books, so I can't say whether or not this is her best. More Than You Know is a well-thought out ghost story/romance/mystery that deserves to have a large audience.
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Summary: A great find!!
Review: This isone of the best books I have read in some time. A combination love/ghost story. It is also a look back on ife and the answers one person comes up with to some of lifes most perplexing questions. Very good read. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Just What I Expected - Maybe More
Review: When I read blurbs on the back by Susan Isaacs and Anne Rivers Siddons I figured this would be somewhat trashy and I was right. The characters were standard: lonely young girl, mean stepmother, handsome wild boy etc. But the writing was straightforward and capable and it kept my interest on a cold December evening and that's saying something. I read the entire book which is more than I can say for some literary fiction I've tried lately.
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Summary: A luminous novel
Review: Gritty characters that love and hate hard, from both sides of the grave, linger in the reader's mind long after the book is closed. As a ghost story, this ranks with the classics of Edith Wharton and M. R. James. This novel manages to treat love, the supernatural, and the spiritual without ever lapsing into the sentimental or cliched. I eagerly await Gutcheon's next book.
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