Daily Archives: May 11, 2015

“The Sound of Glass” is a beautifully written story about a family that has many, many secrets. The story begins in 1955 and, from the first moment, gripped me in the tangled web of the women who tell the tale.

The story quickly moves to 2014 when we meet Merritt Heyward. Merritt’s husband Cal, a firefighter, passed away two years before. Merritt inherits Cal’s grandmother’s house and moves from Maine to South Carolina both to inhabit the house and to leave behind her past life. She no sooner steps foot into the beautiful but run-down house when her past comes to meet her in a way she could never have planned.

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