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The Quaker Café
- A Quaker Café Novel
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
When Liz Hoole, a free-spirited liberal from the Midwest, marries into a conservative Quaker family, she knows that raising children in compliance with Quaker values will be challenging. Twenty-five years later, she still feels like she's falling short of expectations. Fortunately, her faith and her friends in the small, rural North Carolina town of Cedar Branch keep her strong.
After her best friend's politically powerful father dies, Liz stumbles upon secrets from the past that threaten to unravel the current harmony in Cedar Branch, a town with a history of racial tension. As she researches more and eavesdrops on gossip at the Quaker Café, where everyone meets each morning, Liz soon discovers the truth about an injustice that she cannot reveal to anyone - not even her husband.
Surrounded by a cast of richly drawn Southern characters, Liz learns that even good people can make bad choices. Now, she must decide whether she has the strength to bring a past wrong to light, despite the consequences.
This is a new release of a previously published edition.
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- Binx
- 19-07-19
Some how lacking
The story starts well enough but as it progresses it becomes a little trite in places. The author acquiesces to tried and tested methods which makes some parts lack authenticity.
Could there have been more written from LouAnne’s perspective I believe so. It was an pleasant story but lacked fleshing out.
Read by Bahni Turpin lent gravitas to the creditably of the story in parts.
I wanted it to have a better ending than it does but judge for yourself.
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- sarahmoose2000
- 18-08-15
Family ties
A Quaker community discovers some real truths after one of their own gets Leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant.
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- Hazel
- 26-08-17
Second time of listening
This book is a delight, the reading is totally in tune with the writing. I laughed out loud, bit my lip at cutting remarks, and was in wonder at endless patience. The story wove its way smoothly enticing me onward. It was hard to stop listening despite having read the book and listened to the Audible version previously. A joy to have and will be returned to, thank you Audible.
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- Shona
- 03-01-16
The Quaker Cafe
Not sure if it's the narrator but I can't get into this book unfortunately. Finding it rather boring.
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- Mrs
- 20-08-16
Repercussions of a clandestine love affair
I restarted this book a few times before finally ploughing my way to the end. The storyline is set in a small-time Quaker community, divided by religious and racial differences. A clandestine love affair in the past resulted in an innocent black man being lynched and the repercussions of this have simmered over the years. When Judge Corbett Kendall dies, dark secrets from this event are discovered that threaten to rock the delicate balance of racial harmony.
Although I found the writing dull and tedious, the storyline did give me an insight into the Quaker way of life and the lasting complexities of religious and racial issues in communities of the South after the abolishment of slavery.
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