As Bright as Heaven


Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
21
Narrator
6
Release Date
February 6, 2018
Duration
13 hours 28 minutes
Summary
From the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War comes a novel set during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, telling the story of a family reborn through loss and love.

In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were opportunities for a fresh start on its cobblestone streets. Into this bustling town, came Pauline Bright and her husband, filled with hope that they could now give their three daughters—Evelyn, Maggie, and Willa—a chance at a better life.

But just months after they arrive, the Spanish Flu reaches the shores of America. As the pandemic claims more than twelve thousand victims in their adopted city, they find their lives left with a world that looks nothing like the one they knew. But even as they lose loved ones, they take in a baby orphaned by the disease who becomes their single source of hope. Amidst the tragedy and challenges, they learn what they cannot live without—and what they are willing to do about it.

As Bright as Heaven is the compelling story of a mother and her daughters who find themselves in a harsh world not of their making, which will either crush their resolve to survive or purify it.
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Penni D.

I loved the story of this book,it kept me interested !

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Graeme I.

I love all of Susan Meissner's books but this one was exceptional! Such a poignant story and all the characters were beautifully portrayed by all the narrators. I was so sad to come to the end of the book, it felt more like a personal interaction with the family. Just wonderful!

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Sabra G.

So good! The way Meissner weaves the stories between chapters keeps interest. Sometimes a chapter skips ahead and describes the past, and sometimes a chapter of a different character slips a little behind or stays even with another character to describe same events differently. The narrators fit their characters perfectly. Thank you, Meissner, for your message to us readers at the end; how generous of you to reveal some of your research and to invite feedback. Yes, my great-grandfather, James Ethel Ladd, a cowboy in Wyoming, caught and died from the Spanish flu. Good for me that his infant son, Kenneth Leonard Ladd, was born and survived. His French wife went on to marry six more times in the Wild West.

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Anonymous

Very good book

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