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Out of the Water - by Ann Marie Stewart (Paperback)

Out of the Water - by  Ann Marie Stewart (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Christy Award(R) winning author, Ann Marie Stewart delivers a heartfelt novel revealing five generations of secrets. In the search for healing and truth, a century of stories unravel from the cliffs of Ireland, to Boston, France, and Seattle.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong><em>Christy Award(R) winning author, Ann Marie Stewart delivers a powerful and heartfelt novel revealing five generations of secrets. In the search for healing and truth, a century of stories unravel from the stony cliffs of Ireland, to Boston, France, and Seattle.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>Irish immigrant Siobhan Kildea's impetuous flight from a Boston lover in 1919 leads her to a new family in an unfamiliar Montana prison town. After a horrific tragedy impacts her children, her land, and her livelihood, Siobhan makes a heart wrenching decision - with consequences that ripple for decades to come.</p><p><br></p><p>Mysteriously linked to Siobhan is Genevieve Marchard, a battlefront nurse in France who returns stateside to find the absence of a certain soldier is her greatest loss; Anna Hanson, a music teacher who tucks herself away in a small Washington town, assuming her secrets are safe; and Erin Ellis, who thinks she and her husband won the lottery when they adopted their daughter, Claire. </p><p><br></p><p>These interconnected stories, spanning three continents and five generations, begin to unravel in 1981 when Claire Ellis sets out to find her biological mother.</p><p><br></p><p>With puzzling suspense, unforgettable characters and uncanny insight, <em>Out of the Water</em> is an intoxicating novel of motherhood, secrets, and the profound ramifications our decisions have. Readers will be left wondering: ultimately, is it always better to know the truth?</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Ann Marie Stewart's Out of the Water</em> is a heartfelt, affecting story that centers on the kind of crisis in family life for which nobody can ever be prepared - and how courage, and especially enduring and courageous love, are the only things that can help us survive."<strong> - Jacquelyn Mitchard, NYT bestselling author of <em>The Deep End of the Ocean </em>(Oprah's Book Club) and <em>The Good Son</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>"Moving, eloquent, and tender, Ann Marie Stewart's novel Out of the Water</em> follows the flood and ebb of five interconnected women seeking answers, wholeness, and their own definition of home." <strong>- Jolina Petersheim, bestselling author of <em>How the Light Gets In</em> </strong></p><p><br></p><p>"Once you step into this story, you won't want to leave. Out of the Water</em> will cause ripples of mercy to move your heart." <strong>- Chris Fabry, Christy Award</strong><strong>(R)</strong><strong> and Christian Book Award</strong><strong>(R)</strong><strong> winning author of <em>Almost Heaven</em> and <em>Dogwood.</em></strong></p><br>

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