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    Ella in Bloom
    Ella in Bloom
    Ella in Bloom
    Audiobook8 hours

    Ella in Bloom

    Written by Shelby Hearon

    Narrated by Alyssa Bresnahan

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    About this audiobook

    Award-winning author Shelby Hearon, an adept observer and commentator on human nature, focuses on the joys and sorrows of family relationships. Her latest success in marrying style to subject is Ella in Bloom, a novel exploring how it's never too late to make peace with yourself and with others. Terrell has asked her sister, Ella, to conceal her adulterous affair from the family. When Terrell dies in a plane crash just hours later en route to meet her lover, the lie takes on a life of its own. Having spent life in the shadow of her "perfect" older sister, Ella comes face to face with unexpected challenges. Struggling to be honest, Ella feels love blossom in her heart for Rufus, Terrell's grieving spouse. Narrator Alyssa Bresnahan voices the changes in Ella's thoughts, actions, and words with great emotional depth, making the listener feel a connection to this blooming woman, a woman we all know.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 18, 2013
    ISBN9781470355180
    Ella in Bloom

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    • 1/5
      Lightweight handling of a story concerning relationships between mothers and daughters. Concerns the insecurity of one daughter and the death of another interspersed with some comments by a 14-year-old who sometimes talks like a 4 year-old and sometimes like a very wise woman. Could have been so much more.