Between the Tides: A Novel
Written by Patti Callahan Henry
Narrated by Shannon McManus
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About this audiobook
Nine months after Catherine Leary’s father, a literature professor, passed away, she still has not fulfilled his final wish: that she scatter his ashes in the Seaboro River in South Carolina. The scene of a childhood tragedy that forced her family to move, Seaboro is the last place Catherine wants to see again. But on the evening of her thirtieth birthday, her father’s young colleague—whom she once dated—pays a visit.…
Forrest Anderson offers a challenge from Catherine’s father: three probing questions that he had planned to put inside a birthday letter to his daughter. But it’s the news that Forrest plans to memorialize her father in an article that includes the family’s time in Seaboro—and the surprising revelation that her father visited there in recent years—that sends Catherine reeling. Hoping to stop Forrest from exposing her family’s secrets, she agrees to accompany him to her once–beloved Lowcountry town—and embarks on a poignant trip into the past…a journey that might lead her into a new life of love, forgiveness, and self-discovery.…
Patti Callahan Henry
Patti Callahan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of fifteen novels including the Historical Fiction, Becoming Mrs. Lewis—The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis and Surviving Savannah. In addition, she is the recipient of The Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of the Year for 2020 and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year for 2019 and The Christy Award—A 2019 Winner ""Book of the Year.” The author is also the host of the popular seven-part original ""Behind the Scenes of Becoming Mrs. Lewis Podcast Series”. Patti is also the Co-creator and co-host of the weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fiction. Patti and Dottie met when Patti’s first book was released in 2004 at a SIBA conference where the friendship was instant and long lasting.
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Reviews for Between the Tides
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Between the Tides by Patti Callahan HenryHave read many of the author's works and enjoy the reads. Book starts out with Sam, 2 years old and he must've followed the girls into the pond.Nothing good ever happened to Catherine. 18 years later she watched her father leave and forget it was her birthday.She inherits the house and Catherine returns to spread her father's ashes.She worked in the media dept for the sports dept at the school. She dates Thurman but she has many doubts as to his dedication to her.Forrest is writing an article about her dad and needs her help to finish it.Story is in present but goes back to the past at times so we can understand things in the present. Mystery of the painting her father returned to the island to see makes her wonder til she realizes where she saw it prior to hanging in the courthouse.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5OH my - I read this book in a day or so - I loved it. Patti Callahan Henry has become one of my favorite authors and i just finished "The Girl Who Chased the Moon" as well. While I really liked "the girl who . . ", I loved, loved "Between the Tides." It's about a 30 year old girl, Cappy, who returns to her home town after 18 year to scatter (or "toss" as she keeps saying) her father's ashes in the river that runs through town. Her family had left town after the drowning death of a two-year old boy Cappy was watching, and she feels responsible for his death. As she returns to her home town and starts the quest to fid truths, he story becomes one of loss, blame, forgiveness, and love. The story, is beautiful, the writing magical, and the characters spell-binding. While I did find that it took a long time for Cappy to come to the final realizations she made, I still loved every minute of reading it. A story that will stick to me for some time.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5"Awesome writing! Well done - you will not be able to put it down! A story of regret, guilt, loss, past, family, and finding your way back to your true self - if you are an avid reader - this one is a must! Patti Callahan Henry at her best! Have read all her books (new and old) so looking forward to her next one! This is movie worthy!"
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book was a suprise for me, almost lyrical in its storytelling, I fell in love with the characters. The story opens with a daughter who has lost her dad, the last remaining parent, and the secrets she finds when fulfilling his last wish. You run the gamut in the story from life and death, love and loss, despair and hope.Catherine is identifiable in so many ways, locked into childhood by a trauma that affected many, though she believes she moved past it. There were so many great quotes in the book but the one that I identified instantly in the moment of reading is."I realized Ellie would be up-she was always up early-so I rolled from bed and slipped the on the coutoff jeans and pink tube top I wore all that summer, then dropped a Nancy Drew book into my bike basket-I was never without a book, just in case there were empty moments to slip into a life that wasn't mine."That is so me, minus the bike basket. Love it.There is much to recommend the book to someone, so I suggest you do it ;)
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is sort of a chick book, which isn't ordinarily my preference, but there is an entertaining story with a twist here. Catherine Leary's life has been colored by a childhood tragedy, and when she returns to the scene to scatter her father's ashes, she is confronted with a collision of truth and memories.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Patti Callahan Henry’s Between the Tides is an amazing story of self realization and of love. Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.How True, right?I loved this book, and it is one book that I don’t want to let go and give off to someone else. The best thing I loved about this book is that each chapter starts with a famous saying such as the above and they are all so true and beautiful. Though it was a little predictable for me, but I loved the way the story was told, revealing bit by bit just like unraveling a secret kept for years, just like arousing the feelings suppressed for years; just like finding those tears, that had dried years before. Patti Callahan Henry has beautifully sketched the place where she wanted her main protagonist to live, and you can see its beauty through the words that bring it to life.This is the story of a women who had did a big sin when she was a young little girl and lived with the guilt of it till her father, her mentor dies and asks her 3 simple questions through a letter he gives to his trusted friend and student. She on the journey of answering these questions goes back to the place where she belonged and finds out about things that she had never known. It is a beautiful story despite being predictable at times and a very quick read as well. I hope you enjoy it, as I did.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A compelling read - read straight through when I got it. Saw the author that day and was very intrigued. Not a challenging read, but a fabulous story, if only a little bit predictable. Even the predictability, however, was carried out through unusual details.