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The story she left behind [sound recording] / Patti Callahan Henry.

Henry, Patti Callahan, (author,, narrator.). Whelan, Julia, 1984- (narrator.). Solomon, Theo, (narrator.).

Summary:

In 1927, eight-year-old Clara Harrington's magical childhood shatters when her mother, renowned author, Bronwyn Newcastle Fordham, disappears off the coast of South Carolina. Bronwyn stunned the world with a book written in an invented language that became a national sensation when she was just twelve years old. Her departure leaves behind not only a devoted husband and heartbroken daughter, but also the hope of ever translating the sequel to her landmark work. As the headlines focus on the missing author, Clara yearns for something far deeper and more insatiable: her beautiful mother. By 1952, Clara is an illustrator raising her own daughter, Wynnie. When a stranger named Charlie Jameson contacts her from London claiming to have discovered a handwritten dictionary of her mother's lost language. Clara is skeptical. Compelled by the tragedy of her mother's vanishing, she crosses the Atlantic with Wynnie only to arrive during one of London's most deadly natural disasters, the Great Smog. With asthmatic Wynnie in peril, they escape the city with Charlie and find refuge in the Jameson's family retreat nestled in the Lake District. It is there that Clara must find the courage to uncover the truth about her mother and the story she left behind.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781797192864
  • ISBN: 1797192868
  • ISBN: 9781797192871
  • ISBN: 1797192876
  • Physical Description: 10 audio discs (12 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [New York] : Simon & Schuster, [2025]

Content descriptions

Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Julia Whelan & Theo Solomon, [with Patti Callahan Henry].
System Details Note:
Compact discs.
Source of Description Note:
Title from container.
Subject: Missing persons > Investigation > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Women authors > Fiction.
Imaginary languages > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Transatlantic voyages > Fiction.
South Carolina > Fiction.
London (England) > Fiction.
Genre: Audiobooks.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 5 of 12 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 12 total copies.
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Mars Hill Library AUDB HEN 10CD (Text) 30229101390754 Adult New Audiobook Available -

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