Gail Godwin. (2010). Unfinished Desires: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Gail Godwin. 2010. Unfinished Desires: A Novel. Books on Tape.

Gail Godwin, Unfinished Desires: A Novel. Books on Tape, 2010.

Gail Godwin. Unfinished Desires: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2010.

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From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School, comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, rivalries, redemption, and memory.
It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel’s, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina. Tildy Stratton, the undisputed queen bee of her class, befriends Chloe Starnes, a new student recently orphaned by the untimely and mysterious death of her mother. Their friendship fills a void for both girls but also sets in motion a chain of events that will profoundly affect the course of many lives, including the girls’ young teacher and the school’s matriarch, Mother Suzanne Ravenel.
Fifty years on, the headmistress relives one pivotal night, trying to reconcile past and present, reaching back even further to her own senior year at the school, where the roots of a tragedy are buried.
In Unfinished Desires, a beloved author delivers a gorgeous new novel in which thwarted desires are passed on for generations–and captures the rare moment when a soul breaks free.  

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     "A large, roomy story of love, loss, fidelity, secrets, rivalry and faith in the lives of a charming, flawed troupe of characters.... Provocative and rewarding."

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   • content: "This rich world...draws and holds the reader from the first to the final pages of the work. "
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   • source: San Francisco Chronicle
   • content: "Tender but clear-eyed ...Godwin's South has always been a place where charm and good manners can barely conceal the emotional drama pulsing beneath the surface...Recalls the fraught family bonds of Godwin's best novels..."
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   • content: "Godwin's reserved yet powerful new novel is set in a boarding school in the mountains of North Carolina...Though it's a beautiful well-intentioned institution, the school is anything but serene...."
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   • content: "If you plan on reading just one great novel in 2010, this might be it... a big old-fashioned book about jealousy and passion at a Catholic girl's school, written with Gail Godwin's trademark depth and humor...."
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   • source: Christian Science Monitor
   • content: "Godwin's writing is ... marvelous, engaging, clever."
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   • content: "Poignant and transporting...convincing, satisfying."
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   • content: "Intoxicating... Godwin's latest novel charms."
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    • content: "A strong story populated by a host of memorable characters--smart, satisfying fiction, one of the author's best in years."
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    • content: "If you plan on reading just one great novel in 2010, this might be it. Unfinished Desires is a big old-fashioned book about jealousy and passion at a Catholic girl's school, written with best-selling author Gail Godwin's trademark depth and humor ... Godwin's 13th novel is filled with penetrating observations on women's friendships, family and faith ... The wise, human story she tells reaches beyond the boundaries of region and religion, satisfying any reader looking for a good story."
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      "What better setting for exploring female bonds than a Southern Catholic girls' school where epic feuds and forgiveness pass through generations? Godwin's take is smart and intriguing."
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    • content: "Ten Titles to Watch For: This seasoned author revisits familiar territory. Fascinating, always."
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    • content: Mother Suzanne Ravenel is headmistress at Mount St. Gabriel, a girls' school in North Carolina. Having been asked to document the school's history, she becomes fixated on one tragic night that propelled many lives into a tailspin. With a credible Appalachian accent, Kimberly Farr introduces listeners to each character with precision and diversity. She breathes life into Mother Ravenel's difficulties that school year and is especially skilled at portraying the friendship between Tildy, a wily instigator, and Chloe, a new student recently orphaned by the mysterious death of her mother. This complicated relationship is pivotal in a chain of events that reverses the fortunes of many lives, including those of a pretty young teacher and the headmistress herself. B.J.P. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
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      September 7, 2009
      Bestselling author Godwin (Evensong
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      ) brings readers back in time to the early 1950s in this endearing story of Catholic school girls and the nuns who oversee them. As Mother Suzanne Ravenel begins a memoir of her 60-plus years at Mount St. Gabriel's School in Mountain City, N.C., she's forced to re-examine the “toxic year” of 1951–1952, one of her worst at the school—beginning with the arrival of ninth-grade student Chloe Starnes, who's recently lost her mother, and Mother Malloy, a beautiful young nun assigned to the freshman class. Starnes and Malloy's arrivals presage a shift in the ranks of freshman Tildy Stratton's cruel clique, with significant consequences for all involved. Change, when it finally comes, stems from the girls' attempt to revive a play written years before by Ravenel. Godwin captures brilliantly the subtleties of friendships between teenage girls, their ambivalence toward religion and their momentous struggle to define people—especially themselves. Poignant and transporting, this faux memoir makes a convincing, satisfying novel.

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It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel’s, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina. Tildy Stratton, the undisputed queen bee of her class, befriends Chloe Starnes, a new student recently orphaned by the untimely and mysterious death of her mother. Their friendship fills a void for both girls but also sets in motion a chain of events that will profoundly affect the course of many lives, including the girls’ young teacher and the school’s matriarch, Mother Suzanne Ravenel.
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