Summer I Dared Audiobook (Free)

Set on a lovely island off the coast of Maine, this deeply moving and powerful novel by NY Times bestselling author and ‘first-rate storyteller’ (The Boston World) is approximately three individuals who survive a boating incident, exploring not merely how each person relates to his or her own twist of fate, but also the effect each survivor has on the other.

WHAT EMPLOYS THE MOMENT THAT FOREVER CHANGES YOUR LIFE?

This is actually the question that haunts Julia Bechtel, Noah Prine, and Kim Colella, the about Summer season I Dared only survivors of an awful boating accident from the coast of Maine that claimed the lives of nine other folks.

Julia, a forty-year-old wife and mom, has constantly taken the road of least resistance. Pigeonholed by her managing family and progressively distant husband as ‘faithful’ and ‘obedient,’ she realizes in the aftermath of her brush with death that there surely is even more to her — also to the world around her — than she ever truly imagined.

Feeling strangely linked to Noah, the divorced, brooding lobsterman who helped save her life, and to Kim, a twenty-one-year-old whose role in the accident and subsequent muteness are a mystery, Julia starts to explore the unique possibilities offered by the calm island of Big Sawyer, Maine. All of a sudden, points that once appeared critical eliminate significance, and things that appeared inconsequential undertake a whole new importance. With each transferring moment, each fresh discovery, Julia grows more sure after arriving face-to-face with loss of life, she will need to have more from existence.

Resolving to make things right for future years and sketching on an inner strength she never understood she possessed, Julia passionately awakens to a new world, fearlessly embracing uncertainties in ways she couldn’t have imagined just a few weeks ago.

Tripped the coastline of Maine, where lobstermen leave with the tides every day to haul and reset their traps, and neighbours gather every night to feast in the catch of the day, Barbara Delinsky’s THE SUMMERTIME I Dared is a deeply moving story from the risky but rewarding seek out self, a story of success, and of the irrepressible ability of the human spirit to rebound from catastrophe also to create lifestyle anew.