Elizabeth's Mountain
by Lucille Guarino
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Pub Date 28 Mar 2024 | Archive Date 27 May 2024
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Description
"A wonderful, moving story about love and loss, focusing on two generations: grandmother and granddaughter." -Marie W. Watts, author of the award-winning trilogy, Warriors for Equal Rights
A beloved home. Matters of the heart. Can an elderly woman find the key to saving her precious heritage?
Asheville, North Carolina. Elizabeth has a dilemma. After celebrating a milestone birthday, the feisty ninety-year-old anxiously contemplates a developer’s lucrative offer for her Blue Ridge Mountain farmhouse. Worried her adult children will pressure her to sell, the lively senior recalls how her journey to this forever home began back in the 50s when she met the man who would become her husband…
Present day. Amanda yearns to stop wasting time. After ending a dead-end, three-year relationship and moving in with her spirited grandmother, the thirty-four-year-old nurse sees her dream of marriage and kids vanishing. But when she meets a handsome widower at a hospital summit, she cautiously lets down her walls.
As Elizabeth’s memories take her back to when she was a hopeful young woman, she reveals how a horrific accident led to the ER and a charming doctor. While Amanda fears the worst when she overhears the enigmatic man she’s fallen for talking on the phone with another woman.
Do both women’s stories lead to a grand legacy and a lifetime of love?
In an emotional rollercoaster that interweaves the two women’s chance at a future, their parallel romances illustrate the power of resilience and hope despite heartbreak. And as one story comes to its twilight years while the other is just beginning, readers will fall hard for this poignant inheritance of happiness.
Elizabeth's Mountain is an enchanting women’s fiction novel. If you like relatable characters, dual timelines, and multi-generational romance, then you’ll adore Lucille Guarino’s touching tale.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
"Elizabeth's Mountain by Lucille Guarino cleverly interweaves Elizabeth's twilight years with the new adult blossoming of her granddaughter Amanda. The style was smooth and the dialogue flowed naturally, creating a relaxing reading experience." -Readers' Favorite
"A wonderful, moving story about love and loss, focusing on two generations: grandmother and granddaughter." -Marie W. Watts, author of the award-winning trilogy, Warriors for Equal Rights
"An artfully crafted dual timeline story that turns out to be two romances in one book. Both parts are love stories with surprising depth of character that weave in and out of the present day and the past before finally merging the stories together." -Barbara A. Luker, author of I Carry Your Heart and The Right One
"Elizabeth's Mountain is told in the alternating voices of Elizabeth and her granddaughter, Amanda, whose distinct voices capture generations of change and whose delightful tales are more similar than either could imagine, enchanting you long past the last page." -Iris Glazner Leigh, author of Liza's Secrets
"Elizabeth's Mountain is a beautifully written uplifting story of overcoming loss and hardship and finding love. Despite the decades between them, Guarino masterfully interweaves the lives of two strong, resilient women whose stories share so much more than genetics." -Gail Dwyer, author of The Roof Above
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781685133924 |
| PRICE | US$5.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 328 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Lori P, Reviewer
Loved loved this sweet novel of two generations.
So full of love,hope,family, and secrets.
I loved Elizabeth's story best. She's a great storyteller and I felt like I was there right along with her.
I finished this novel in 2 days because I wanted to savor it. Wonderful stories like these don't come along very often.
At least in my opinion they don't.
The blurb of this book was what drew me and the cover also.
Wonderful and captivating at the same time. You'll be thinking about Elizabeth and her family for a long time to come.
I loved this story so much! It was hard to put Elizabeth's story down. She had my heart from the very beginning.
I didn't want to leave the beautiful scenery either. I felt like I was there.
You'll need a box of tissues too because some of this story will make you want to cry, smile and shake your head at times as well.
5 stars for keeping me captivated from the beginning until the end. I highly recommend.
My thanks to Netgalley for a copy of this book. I was NOT required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are my own.
martha l, Reviewer
Elizabeth’s Mountain by Lucille Guarino is a wonderful, emotional read. Elizabeth and her granddaughter, Amanda are two strong women. The story goes back and forth between Elizabeth in the 50s and Amanda in the present. Elizabeth’s story introduces us to Joe, her one true love and husband for decades before he passed. Amanda just ended a long term relationship and moving on with her life and living with her grandmother. Amanda meets Jesse realizing that he might be it.
The story is poignant. The characters are strong women on the cusp of a new time for them. I loved the happiness that they were open to. I loved their strong need to help others. I loved the old house up on a rise looking into the mountains. I loved Joe and Jesse.
Life was not always easy for the main characters. Amanda's life seemed to parallel her grandmother's life. Hope and resilience were strong elements of the characters and storyline. The main characters, Elizabeth and Amanda were resilient which helped them have room for hope.
Elizabeth’s Mountain by Lucille Guarino is a wonderful read.
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General Fiction (Adult), Historical Fiction, Women's Fiction
