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    The House on Fripp Island
    The House on Fripp Island
    The House on Fripp Island
    Audiobook9 hours

    The House on Fripp Island

    Written by Rebecca Kauffman

    Narrated by Susan Bennett

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    Fripp Island, South Carolina, is the perfect destination for the wealthy Daly family: Lisa, Scott, and their two girls.
    For Lisa’s childhood friend Poppy Ford, however, the resort island is a world away from what she and her family are used to.

    Everyone brings secrets to the island, distorting what should be a convivial, relaxing summer on the beach. Lisa
    sees danger everywhere—the local handyman can’t be allowed near the children, and Lisa suspects Scott is fixated
    on something, or someone, else. Poppy watches over her husband, John, and his routines with a sharp eye. For
    the children, it’s a summer of change: Ryan Ford prepares for college in the fall, Rae Daly seethes on the brink of
    adulthood, and the two youngest, Kimmy Daly and Alex Ford, are exposed to new ideas and different ways of life as
    they forge a friendship of their own. The ones who return from this vacation will spend the rest of their lives trying
    to process what they witnessed, the tipping points, moments of violence and tenderness, and the memory of whom
    they left behind.

    Editor's Note

    Dream trip gone wrong…

    After winning an all-expenses paid vacation to Fripp Island (off the coast of South Carolina), Lisa invites her childhood friend Poppy along, with their husbands and children in tow. What should be a relaxing dream holiday is anything but when class differences, paranoia, and violence take over. A thrilling, funny, and tender read.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 2, 2020
    ISBN9781980015727
    Author

    Rebecca Kauffman

    REBECCA KAUFFMAN received her MFA in creative writing from New York University. She is the author of The Gunners and Another Place You’ve Never Been, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Originally from rural northeastern Ohio, she now lives in Virginia.

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    • 3/5
      This story starts out strong but then missed its mark with a very weak ending. The plot was good but you never felt like the characters came to life .
    • 3/5
      Two families, one rich and one poor, join each other for a 4-day stay at a beach house on some remote island. Almost 75% of the book is setting the stage for the ending, detailing some of the relationships and inner thoughts and secrets of the family members.

      The last 25% details the last day of their trip and all that occurs... how the secrets each of them have come to light and merge. Then, the book ends with a neat, tidy bow detailing how each family member lived after the trip.

      It was interesting, great narration, and quick, but lacked "umph" through most of it.

      Thank you Libro.FM and Recorded Books for allowing me to listen and give my honest opinion.
    • 4/5
      We know from the very beginning that someone has drowned, but not until near the end just who the victim is. We even know that it is murder, but not who is responsible. But even so, the murder really comes out of left-field. The build up consists of an exploration of the relationships within and between the two families. Each of the adults in particular have secrets, and a sinister element intrudes when Lisa recognises the name of someone on a sex-predator list. There is an indication that neither sets of parents knows their children as well as they think they do. One is a secret drinker, another grows pot, but their parents have no idea.There is a sense of a ghost watching over things from on-high.I didn't particularly like the ending of the book. It posed problems that weren't all that well re-solved.
    • 3/5
      I received a copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley.For some reason I thought this was going to be more of a mystery than it in fact was, so I kept waiting for 'the thing' to happen. The first 80% or more is the story of two families holidaying together on an island, and goes into enormous detail about when and what they eat, what exactly they do between meals and with whom and so on and so on. Despite this, the writing and particularly the characterization was good enough that I quite enjoyed it. However the final 20% was an enormous disappointment to me. It is hard to write about it without spoiling the plot, but 'the thing' did happen, and then a few chapters described the immediate aftermath and then the final few were set decades later and caught us up with some (and only some and not the ones I was really interested in) subsequent developments in a really abbreviated way. The shape of the plot was very unbalanced and the ending felt as if the author had run out of space to include all the things she wanted to say.