The deep blue sea for beginners
Pell Davis is a senior and getting ready to head off to college. However, when her father passes away, she begins to worry about her younger sister. She sets out to find their mother, who abandoned their affluent family years ago for a quiet community on the isle of Capri.
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- ISBN: 9780739343661
- Physical Description 5 audio discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher New York : Ranom Houuse Audio ; [2009]
- Copyright ℗2009
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| General Note: | In container (17 cm.). Title from container. "Abridged"--Container. Compact disc. GMD: compact disc. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Blair Brown. |
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The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners
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Pell Davis is off to the island of Capri to bring her estranged mother, Lyra, home. Lyra left when Pell was six and her sister Lucy was four. Her father raised them until he died, and they moved to Newport, Rhode Island, to live with their cold, jet-setting grandmother. Pell wants her mother home so she can go off to college and not worry about leaving her beloved, troubled sister. She pictures her mother living a life of luxury only to find her living a simple life designing gardens. Never expecting forgiveness and burdened by the untold truth about her exile, Lyra is overwhelmed by her love for her daughter. As Lyra and Pell try to find a way back to each other, Capri works its magic until Lyra tells Pell a shocking family secret. A loosely aligned sequel to popular Rice's The Geometry of Sisters (2009), this moving tale follows a young woman's journey to reunite her family and discover herself.--Engelmann, Patty Copyright 2009 Booklist
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Publishers Weekly Review
The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners
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The amazingly prolific Rice reintroduces characters from 2009's Geometry of Sisters for this heart-tugger about a reunion of a mother and her two daughters who've been separated for 10 years due to a disturbing secret. Set on the picturesque isle of Capri, Rice's touching tale reflects on how families can survive and thrive despite tragedies. Lyra Nicholson is a lonely heiress living in Italy while her equally lonely daughters, 16-year-old Pell and Lucy, a 14-year-old math whiz, live in Newport, R.Iwith their grandmother. Lucy's already tried to contact (via equations) the ghost of her dead father with Beck, her BFF and the sister of Pell's boyfriend, Travis. Pell travels to Italy, wanting Lyra, who abandoned her and Lucy, to finally take responsibility for them. Max Gardiner, her mother's smitten playwright neighbor, encourages Pell, even as she is distracted by Rafe, Max's 19-year-old recovering addict grandson. Rice gives Pell an old-beyond-her-years stability that Lyra lacks in this beguiling beach read that would suit YA readers as well as their mothers. (Aug.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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