📖 Book Description
The darkest secrets are the ones we hide from ourselves.
Ten years ago, traumatized by her father’s death, Lucy left her home and her country. Now, she returns to her family’s rambling lakeside home to lay old ghosts to rest.
However, sleepless one night, she makes a momentous discovery. Locked in a moonlit window seat is a collection of family heirlooms – objects whose secrets no one was ever supposed to find.
Piecing together her family’s true history, she realises that the story she has always been told was a fiction. And the more she uncovers, the more Lucy comes to question her own life choices – including why it is that her first lover, Keegan Fall, has never left her heart…
Mesmerizing and haunting, The Lake of Dreams is a startling story of family secrets and lies, lost love and redemption, and of the many pieces and puzzles that make up a life.
From the author of the bestselling and beloved novel The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards, comes a mesmerising story of startling family secrets and lies in the Sunday Times bestselling novel The Lake of Dreams.
Publication Details
Author: Kim Edwards
Book Title: The Lake of Dreams
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date: 1 January 2011
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670920259
Pages: 381
About the Author
Kim Edwards is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, which was translated into thirty-eight languages. She is also the author of the New York Times bestselling novel, The Lake of Dreams, and a collection of short stories, The Secrets of a Fire King. Her honors include the Whiting Award, the British Book Award, and USA Today’s Book of the Year, as well as the Nelson Algren Award, a National Magazine Award, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has taught widely in the US and Asia, and currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
Kim Edwards website is http://kimedwardsbooks.com/
Kim Edwards may also be found on Facebook
My Review
I have had this book sitting on my bookshelf for some time and I am wishing now I had read it sooner. I was attracted to the cover and after reading the synopsis I was intrigued by the family history aspect.
I found myself absorbed with Lucy’s story. The story is narrated in the first person making it easy to identify with her. The setting for the story is near water and nature which is very much brought to life by the descriptive writing. However, it is a slow build story which I found difficult at times but I stayed with it and I am glad I did.
MoMoBookDiary Index
- Author
- Kim Edwards
- Title
- The Lake of Dreams
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Women’s Fiction
- Setting
- tbc
- Source
- Purchased
- Date Read
- September 2018
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