Overview
An Instant New York Times Best Seller
“A vibrant, engrossing, unputdownable thriller that packs a serious emotional punch. One of those rare books that surprise you along the way and then linger in your mind long after you have finished it.” (Kristin Hannah, number one New York Times best-selling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds)
Right. Wrong. Life is lived somewhere in between.
Duchess Day Radley is a 13-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids.
Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. And he’s in overdrive protecting Duchess and her brother.
Now, 30 years later, Vincent is being released. And Duchess and Walk must face the trouble that comes with his return. We Begin at the End is an extraordinary novel about two kinds of families – the ones we are born into and the ones we create.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company
Review
Duchess Day Radley is only 13 years old. But she is in charge of so much. Her mother is unable to cope with Duchess and her little brother, Robin. So, Duchess has had to step up and be responsible for just about everything.
Duchess and Robin tear your heart out through this whole book. Their life is just not the best. And when it turns worse and they end up at their grandfather’s farm you think it is finally going to get better. But as usual, life twists and they once again are in the wind.
Walk, the local sheriff, is struggling with his own medical condition. But he is determined to help these children and hopefully mend a wrong.
Oh wow! That is one heck of a good book! Especially the ending. Geez! This will have you all over the place. This is a multilayered story which is amazing from start to finish. Your heart will be broken, fixed and broken again.
I listened to this one and the narrator, George Newbern, could not have been better. I am going to have to search this narrator out.
Grab your copy today! You do not want to miss this one.
I received this audiobook from The publishers for a honest review.
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