Swedish sisters Astrid, Lena, and Sandra have struggled to get along since childhood, but when Lena is diagnosed with ovarian cancer, they are each thrown into crisis together.
Astrid’s well-ordered, predictable world is shaken by the return of her ex-boyfriend Michael, an American who abandoned her—and their infant son—years earlier. While Astrid has remarried and had more children, she is suffocating under her husband’s kindness and cannot escape the pull of the past. Seeing Michael at their son’s high school graduation reawakens her grief and rage, along with more complicated and threatening emotions.
Envious of Astrid’s seemingly stable life, Sandra is married to an alcoholic and drowning in debt. She turns to Lena for help at the worst possible time. Lena, fighting to stay alive, must finally confront a devastating secret she’s kept from Astrid since the summer Michael left. As the walls they’ve built between them crumble, the three sisters must try to forgive and to rebuild their shattered bonds…while there’s still time.
Stunningly beautiful read I could not put this book down. I was drawn to each of the sisters, understanding their stories that protected their souls. Thought provoking and poignant.
Introspective excellence Thought provoking story told from three sisters’ perspectives. I was captivated by the sibling rivalry expressed during a family in peril. Highly recommend this book. It speaks eloquently to the fragile nature of our most dear relationships.
I thought this book would never end! Tinna Nunally’s “The Heart Echoes” is a tedious book to read. The narrator, each of the three sisters as well as the mother, changes back and forth, as does the timing. This gets awfully confusing and makes the story difficult to follow. Each sister has a lengthy back story, sometimes overlapping and sometimes not, complicating the plot even more. The themes are love, death, and forgiveness played out through the sisters relationships with one another, and with the other significant people…