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Title details for The Pirate Queen by Patricia Hickman - Available

The Pirate Queen

by Patricia Hickman
Flora Plumb
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Treasure is found in the most unlikely places.

The envy of all her friends, wife and mother Saphora Warren is the model of southern gentility and accomplishment. She lives in a beautiful Lake Norman home, and has raised three capable adult children. Her husband is a successful plastic surgeon—and a philanderer. It is for that reason that, after hosting a garden party for Southern Living magazine, Saphora packs her bags to escape the trappings of the picturesque-but-vacant life. 
Saphora’s departure is interrupted by her husband Bender’s early arrival home, and his words that change her life forever: I’m dying.
 
Against her desires, Saphora agrees to take care of Bender as he fights his illness. They relocate, at his insistance, to their coastal home in Oriental—the same house she had chosen for her private getaway. When her idyllic retreat is overrun by her grown children, grandchildren, townspeople, relatives, and a precocious neighbor child, Saphora’s escape to paradise is anything but the life she had imagined. As she gropes for evidence of God's presence amid the turmoil, can she discover that the richest treasures come in surprising packages?

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  • Release date

    August 10, 2010

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      • ISBN: 9780307748577
      • File size: 324639 KB
      • Duration: 11:16:19

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Hickman's novel is a good fit for fans of Nicholas Sparks. Wealthy and isolated in her beautiful Southern home, Saphora is in late middle age when she finally gets up the gumption to leave her philandering husband, a plastic surgeon, only to return when she learns he's dying of a brain tumor. Narrator Flora Plumb does a more than admirable job creating empathy for characters one comes to really care about. (Still, some listeners may wonder if the sudden re-emergence of her husband's love isn't a bit self-serving when he's been such a skunk for so many years.) Multiple other characters come into play, however, and Plumb portrays them all with nuanced performances that bring this big canvas to life with gentleness and affection. D.G. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

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