Category: Contemporary, General Fiction, Novel
Language: EnglishKeywords: Family Rural
Written by Shawn Nocher
Read by Elizabeth Evans
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged
Willy Cherrymill and his stepdaughter, Lacey, are deeply bruised by a past brimming with unanswered questions. Itâs been 30 years since May DuBerry, Willyâs young wife and Laceyâs mother, abandoned them both, leaving Willy to raise Lacey alone.
Lacey Cherrymill is smart, stubborn, and focused. Sheâs also single mother to a young daughter recently diagnosed with a devastating illness. The last thing she needs to think about right now is the betrayal that rocked her childhood. Reluctantly, she has returned to her rural beginnings, a former dairy farm in the Maryland countryside, and to Willy, a man steeped in his own disappointments and all the guilt that goes with them.
Together they will pool their wobbly emotional resources to take care of Laceyâs daughter, Tasha, all the while trying to skirt the issue of Mayâs mysterious disappearance. But try as she might, Lacey canât leave it alone. Just where is May DuBerry Cherrymill, and why did she leave them, and how is it that they have never talked about the wreckage she left behind?
A Hand to Hold in Deep Water is a deeply felt narrative about mothers and daughters, the legacy of secrets, the way we make a family, and the love of those who walk us through our deepest pain. It is about the way we are tethered to one another and how we choose to wear those bindings. These are characters you wonât soon forget and, more so, wonât want to leave behind when you listen to the final moment.
Audio Release Date:
June 22 2021
14 hrs and 4 mins
Willy Cherrymill and his stepdaughter, Lacey, are deeply bruised by a past brimming with unanswered questions. Itâs been 30 years since May DuBerry, Willyâs young wife and Laceyâs mother, abandoned them both, leaving Willy to raise Lacey alone.
Lacey Cherrymill is smart, stubborn, and focused. Sheâs also single mother to a young daughter recently diagnosed with a devastating illness. The last thing she needs to think about right now is the betrayal that rocked her childhood. Reluctantly, she has returned to her rural beginnings, a former dairy farm in the Maryland countryside, and to Willy, a man steeped in his own disappointments and all the guilt that goes with them.
Together they will pool their wobbly emotional resources to take care of Laceyâs daughter, Tasha, all the while trying to skirt the issue of Mayâs mysterious disappearance. But try as she might, Lacey canât leave it alone. Just where is May DuBerry Cherrymill, and why did she leave them, and how is it that they have never talked about the wreckage she left behind?
A Hand to Hold in Deep Water is a deeply felt narrative about mothers and daughters, the legacy of secrets, the way we make a family, and the love of those who walk us through our deepest pain. It is about the way we are tethered to one another and how we choose to wear those bindings. These are characters you wonât soon forget and, more so, wonât want to leave behind when you listen to the final moment.
Audio Release Date:
June 22 2021
14 hrs and 4 mins