The Sound of Glass
By: Karen White
Rating: 5 of 5
“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.
Loralee, Merritt’s step-mother, is only five years older than she and Merritt has never forgiven her father or Loralee for trying to replace her late mother. Loralee, now a widow too, is on a quest of her own, with secrets of her own. She has brought Owen, her son who is Merritt’s half-brother, to meet his sister and moves the two of them into the house. Her reasons slowly become clear.
As the secrets are revealed and the hurts examined, I was drawn into the lives of these individuals as if they were friends that I knew and cared about. I can’t say much more as I don’t wish to spoil the book for any reader but suffice to say that watching these women come to life in the book was a wonderful experience for me. Hope and looking forward to the future was the ultimate feeling that I was left with.
The book is the first that I have read by Karen White. I am glad to see that she has a nice backlist that I can read through while waiting for her next novel.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher, NAL, via Netgalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.
“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.