The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay (Audiobook)

from WeeziesBooks

This lovely book, The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay, by Beverly Jensen was published after her death at the age of 49 by her friend and supporters. The book is a collection of memories built around the two Hillock sisters, Avis and Idella. It tells the story of their lives. The book is written ac...

from WeeziesBooks

This lovely book, The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay, by Beverly Jensen was published after her death at the age of 49 by her friend and supporters. The book is a collection of memories built around the two Hillock sisters, Avis and Idella. It tells the story of their lives. The book is written ac...

from saratoga99

Initially, I was fully engaged by the occasional melodramatic moments in the "hardscrabble" lives of the Hillock family, especially the mother's untimely death in childbirth, leaving a distraught and impulsive father with four children. Overwhelmed by thoughts of daily struggles to eke out what l...

from burnit99

A finely-written tale of two sisters from their beginning in Hardscrabble Bay, New Brunswick around 1916 when they were children. Their mother died after giving birth to their sister, whom the overwhelmed father gave to relatives. The book covers the two sisters' lives (but mostly Idella's, the m...

from froxgirl

This story flows from 1916 to 1986, from New Brunswick to Boston, from fathers to sisters to husbands. Idella and Avis are just little girls growing up on poor land in a poor family when their mother dies in childbirth having Emma. Their father Bill is bereft without his loving wife and struggles...