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The Lost Hours

By: Karen White
Narrated by: Beth Devries
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When Piper Mills was 12, she helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her grandmother in the backyard. For 12 years, it remained untouched. Now a near-fatal accident has shattered Piper's dreams of Olympic glory. After her grandfather's death, she inherits the house and all its secrets, including a key to a room that doesn't exist - or does it? And after her grandmother is sent away to a nursing home, she remembers the box buried in the backyard.

In it are torn pages from a scrapbook, a charm necklace - and a newspaper article from 1929 about the body of an infant found floating in the Savannah River. The necklace's charms tell the story of three friends during the 1920s - each charm added during the three months each friend had the necklace and recorded her life in the scrapbook.

Piper always dismissed her grandmother as not having had a story to tell. And now, too late, Piper finds she might have been wrong.

©2009 Karen White (P)2009 Listen & Live Audio, Inc. Detective Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Mystery Psychological Women Sleuths Women's Fiction
Engaging Storyline • Well-developed Characters • Beautiful Tone • Emotional Depth • Intriguing Secrets
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5 stars except for voice of reader. To my ear, her voice sounded much older than Piper, the main character. From the beginning, I had to constantly remind myself that she was a young, not elderly, person.

Great story - One flaw

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Different from others I have read by Karen White. I loved the story with so many twists and turns. made me laugh and cry. didn't want it to end.

Karen White St her best

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so good. so many details to keep you drawn in. what a legacy these women had.

so good

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I love the bits of wisdom that I seem to always find in books based in the South. Piper, Helen, Lillian, and Annabelle’s stories and how it all ends is sad, heartwarming, and even a love story.
It makes me sad for the past but it also shows how far we’ve come from that era before the civil rights movement. And how important it is to forgive and learn from the past.

Forgiveness is important

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well narrated well written and a beautiful story. It's one that will stay with me .

what a wonderful story!

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I love all of the Karen White books that I have read! This is not one of the newer books, but I'm so glad I went back to read it!

Loved this book!

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I loved this book. I have read a few by this author and they are all really good! The one thing about this book that wasn’t great were the weird pauses in sentences. Just pauses. Not even for punctuation, just blank spaces!

Weird Pauses in this one!

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This is a good family history with a lot of interesting characters. I enjoyed listening to this book.

A family history

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i could barely keep listening to this book. i had to keep re-listening because for the first 1/3 of the book because it couldn't hold my attention. i've listened to other books by karen white and they are all a little slow, but i could barely get started with this one. interesting story line, but not a 'feel good' novel. if you have patience, its worth it. BUT be prepared to struggle through the beginning.

s...l...o...w... start

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As with most of Ms. White’s stories, there is a huge build up to The climax, which usually involves an unexpected twist or out of left field surprise to the reader. Not so much this time! Entire climax was a borrowed plot line from a very famous series ending to a TV show from the 1970s and 80s! I will not reveal what TV show that was so I don’t cause a spoiler alert, however, any woman who was around during those years will recognize it easily. Unfortunately, I saw it as a real let down.

When is a surprise not a surprise?

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