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The Time Between
Written by Karen White
Narrated by Jennifer Ikeda, Barbara Rosenblat and Angela Goethals
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
New York Times bestselling author Karen White spins riveting tales of family, love, and redemption. Set in the South Carolina Lowcountry, The Time Between follows Eleanor Murray, who fled life on majestic Edisto Island for a job at a Charleston investment firm. Now her boss wants Eleanor to move back and help care for Helena, his elderly aunt. But that means confronting her childhood, including the accident that left her sister in a wheelchair. What Eleanor doesn't foresee is the bond she'll form with Helena--and the revelations that will set them free.
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Karen White
Karen White is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of twenty-five novels, including Dreams of Falling and The Night the Lights Went Out. She has two grown children and currently lives near Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and two spoiled Havanese dogs.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wonderful book. I enjoyed the different perspectives of the characters.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wonderfully written and beautifully read. I fell in love with each character.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great exploration of choices people make in war-time and about working through guilt. This book is similar to The Stoyteller by Jodi Picoult
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I thought I was NOT going to like this... the language, in the beginning, was a bit "over the top"... descriptions too wordy - like the author was trying too hard - but eventually, it all worked. LOVED the characters, the story, the hint of WWII. All in all a nice read. It almost felt like a Dorothea Benton Frank type story... low country and all.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5My favorite so far out of all of Karen White's books. It contains so much depth, emotions, and secrets. Then in the end it came all together a full circle.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'm so happy she has written lots of books and so far I have read only two---lots more of her books to enjoy! I just like the way she writes and the characters she has develop over time---yes, somewhat lengthy but I, for one, didn't mind at all.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a slow moving storyline but not in a bad way. It needs to take the time for the reader to get to know the characters, get to know their history and journey with them as they change. You need to know why they are hurting like they are, what changed them and how they go about healing each other. It is a very well written story that made me smile, laugh out loud and shed a small tear. It's a very beautiful story and I'm glad I took the time to read it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Would be a perfect book for the beach. The story was nice, but not as tight as I would have liked. Without giving any spoilers, there were emotions and relationships that wered meted out, and were never fully explained. I don't like how that aspect of the book read, but overall, I would recommend.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A story of forgiveness, love and loss. Eleanor has more in common than she thought with Finn’s aunt. Eleanor has a lot of guilt from her sister’s accident and lives a sad life—until her boss Finn steps in and offers her another part time job working with his aunt Helena. A story of two sisters – and events which occurred which haunt these two women. Karen did a good job with the historical aspect; however, this was not one of my favorite books by this author. I enjoyed the Low-Country setting as have worked in the Charleston area- full of history and charm!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excellent book
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not much action, but alot of thinking, and a good story.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book was a story about love and forgiveness with great characters. Eve and Eleanor are sisters whose lives are changed as teenagers. Eleanor takes a job caring for her boss's elderly Aunt Helena. Their lives become entagled and each have a secret to tell.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Some reviewers thought this book was slow paced. Im not usually one for "slow-paced" novels, but this was such a beautiful story of love and forgiveness. And it's a great cover. Slow paced? Not for me. I fell in love with these characters and this book and simply devoured it.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I always enjoy Karen White and her story in this book was so good. Unlike any other book I've read, just an enjoyable read. The history about Hungary that was written about was so interesting.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Eve and Eleanor are sisters whose fates are changed as teenagers, when Eve takes Eleanor's tree-climbing dare, falls out, and is paralyzed. As the story opens we find that perhaps 15 or 20 years have passed. Eleanor lives with her mother, Eve, and Eve's husband Glen, caring for everyone in an effort to atone for the past.Eleanor takes a second job caring for her boss's elderly aunt Helena on Edisto Island, the same place where Eleanor and Eve grew up. Through the relationship with Helena, Eleanor helps to heal Helena's past and her own.Helena's history, so far back in her past and yet still so close in her present, is tragic. We don't get a choice about when and where we are born and live our early lives. Helena's early adulthood, with its devastating decisions and consequences, took place in Austria during WWII.Early in the story Eve finds out she is pregnant. The combination of Eve's pregnancy, Eleanor's absences during her second job, and Eleanor's relationships with her boss Finn and Helena, help break the log jam of dynamics in Eleanor's family. The results are positive for everyone involved.The story is told shifting the point of view between Eleanor, Helena and Eve, and that works very well. It's clear Eleanor is the main character. Family, sisters, children, the elderly, mystery, romance, forgiveness, letting go of the past, redemption, growth. . . this book is the perfect summer read. I actually cried a little towards the end and I'm not a crier. The Time Between is a very well written story.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a heartwarming story full of sisterhood, parenting, guilt, and learning to let go and move on. Eve and Eleanor were always the best of friends, with Eve looking out for her younger sister Eleanor, and Eleanor always leading Eve into mischief with her. At least it was that way until their father died, and his death created a vacuum of sorts within the entire household. Each of the three women dealt with the loss of a husband and father in different ways, none of them very healthy.Move ahead to today and the sisters roles are reversed, with Eleanor now playing the role of older sister, caring for Eve, their mother, and even Eve's husband, Glen. All because Eve is now in a wheelchair. The ripples from the event that put Eve in that chair spread far and wide. And like other stories with similar ripples, the calm may only return after secrets are exposed and truths are shared & learned. During that fateful event Eleanor sees an old Gullah woman, who says to her "all shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone" just before the EMTs get Eleanor's heart started again. Eleanor mulls over that phrase for years, trying to discern the meaning behind it.In addition to her regular job, Eleanor's boss hires her to act as his elderly aunt's companion. Eleanor accepts, needing the extra money to help out around the house. She also accepts because she feels somewhat obligated since her boss has always been so understanding of her need to keep odd hours in order to care for her sister. And if she is honest with herself, she accepts because the jobs means less time spent at home, and she gets to spend time on Edisto, the island she grew up on. That island is in her blood, and being back there even a few hours a week is a balm for her careworn soul.Through this new job we meet & start to know a new cast of characters, including Eleanor's boss Mr. Beaufain,who later becomes Finn, his amazing young daughter Gigi, and elderly aunt Helena. Helena is a handful, but she recognizes in Eleanor so many of the same traits her beloved younger sister, Bernadette had. Of the trio of sisters, only Helena remains, their oldest sister Magda having already passed away, leaving Bernadette and Helena alone together, as they had been for almost their entire lives. Until the day Finn visits and finds Bernadette dead and Helena dying by intentionally starving herself. It is for this reason that Finn hires Eleanor to act as a companion for his aunt, though the circumstances around Bernadette's death don't come out until well after Eleanor has accepted the position and gotten to know Helena Szarka some, so she stays on undeterred.As secrets are unveiled in one generation, the secrets from prior generations become revealed as well. The book spans generations, all while being told from the present day, yet reaching back to bring the 30's and moving forward from there. Throughout the tale the bonds of sisterhood are so tangible that even those who don't have sisters can still feel the pull of such a bond, along with the intertwined comfort and pain the create such a bond. Ms. White has a knack for showing the kernel of truth at the core of each situation, and then revealing each layer at just the right time in order to show the whole of the story at full bloom; even if a piece of the story only blooms one night a year, when the conditions are just right. In the end, I think we each have our own understanding of what "all shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone" means, not just for the characters in the story, but for ourselves as well.