When We Were Sisters
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When We Were Sisters

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Price
$5.98
Format
Hardcover
Pages
464
Publisher
MIRA
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0778322764
Dimensions
6.41 x 1.48 x 9.47 inches
Weight
1.8 pounds

Description

About the Author USA TODAY bestselling author Emilie Richards has written more than seventy novels. She has appeared on national television and been quoted in Reader’s Digest, right between Oprah and Thomas Jefferson. Born in Bethesda, Maryland, and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida, Richards has been married for more than forty years to her college sweetheart. She splits her time between Florida and Western New York, where she is currently plotting her next novel.

Features & Highlights

  • Love and loyalty made them sisters. Secrets could still destroy them.
  • As children in foster care, Cecilia and Robin vowed they would be the sisters each had never had. Now superstar singer-songwriter Cecilia lives life on the edge, but when Robin is nearly killed in an accident, Cecilia drops everything to be with her. Robin set aside her career as a successful photojournalist to create the loving family she always yearned for. But gazing through a wide-angle lens at both past and future, she sees that her marriage is disintegrating. Her attorney husband is rarely home. She and the children need Kris's love and attention, but does Kris need them? When Cecilia asks Robin to be the still photographer for a documentary on foster care, Robin agrees, even though Kris will be forced to take charge for the months she's away. She gambles that he'll prove to them both that their children—and their marriage—are a priority in his life. Cecilia herself needs more than time with her sister. A lifetime of lies has finally caught up with her. She wants a chance to tell the real story of their childhood and free herself from the nightmares that still haunt her. As the documentary unfolds, memories will be tested and the meaning of family redefined, but the love two young girls forged into bonds of sisterhood will help them move forward as the women they were always meant to be.

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When we were Sisters

I had never read this author before. Good story line. Keep my interest.
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Slow...

Hard to stay focused with this book.
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Well Developed Story

In the same foster care homes since Cecilia was 13 and Robin was 9, the sisters have relied on each other for support to get through the tough times. Although Cecilia is now a successful singer-songwriter, she drops everything to be at Robin's side after a terrible car accident. Married and raising two children, Pet and Nic, Robin was once a professional photojournalist. When Cecilia proposes a journey through their childhoods, as a way to get personal closure and to professionally jumpstart Robin's career, will she be able to ignore her husband's wishes and choose herself?

Written from the perspectives of Robin, Cecilia, and Robin's husband Kris, When We Were Sisters highlights the pitfalls and challenges of the foster care system in America. Cecilia and Robin were successful in making it through simply because they had each other but, realistically, many are not that lucky. Rich in character development and with a good premise, the story of Cecilia and Robin is wonderfully written. Although the eventual reveal is somewhat telegraphed, it did not ruin the flow of the book. Readers who enjoy books by Diane Chamberlain will find When We Were Sisters to their liking.
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Five Stars

Great read
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I do not have the words to do this story justice...

Wow... What a truly powerful story.

I have to admit that I love reading Emilie Richards stories. I have loved all the series (including her cozy mysteries). And as with all the authors that I really enjoy I figure there will eventually be a story that I do no like as much or cannot connect to. THIS wasn't it.

I had felt when I read what the story was about that I might not quite GET this book as I consider my childhood as very happy. But to write this novel off as being about two girls that had a horrendous childhood and stuck who together as "sisters" would do THIS story a disservice. Oh, it was shown that childhood is important, and that it can (and does) build the character that one will become as an adult--and the story was so much more...

The author can and does characterize beautifully. I could feel what each and everyone of her characters felt...and agree with the feelings. Which makes this story sound foreseeable. All I can say is that it was... but it really wasn't. This sounds crazy but is true.

I hate noticable "preaching" in a story. I realize that the author wanted to make a point and in my opinion she was able to without preaching. The worse part of this book is that it lingers. And it is going to make it really hard to get into another novel, no matter how good that novel will be.

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