The Stars Are Fire - Anita Shreve
Category: Suspense
Narrator: Suzanne Elise Freeman
Tags: Suspense, Historical Fiction, Adults
Publisher: Random House (Audio) Date: April 2017 Duration: 8 hours 43 minutes, Summary: From the New York Times best-selling author of The Weight of Water and The Pilots Wife (an Oprahs Book Club selection): an exquisitely suspenseful new novel about an extraordinary young woman tested by a catastrophic event and its devastating aftermathbased on the true story of the largest fire in Maines history, In October 1947, after a summer long drought, fires break out all along the Maine coast from Bar Harbor to Kittery and are soon racing out of control from town to village. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband, Gene, joins the volunteer firefighters. Along with her best friend, Rosie, and Rosies two young children, Grace watches helplessly as their houses burn to the ground, the flames finally forcing them all into the ocean as a last resort. The women spend the night frantically protecting their children, and in the morning find thei
