Semi-Detached
Elizabeth Ruth
May 2024 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Natalie Duke
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9 hr 16 min
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Hearts may freeze or thaw, but love never dies. In December 2013, an ice storm buries Toronto as realtor Laura Keys prepares to sell a one-of-a-kind house on behalf of its comatose owner. Haunting Laura, and longing to be invited in, is a mysterious teenage girl with a Scottish terrier tucked into her coat. As Laura readies the house for showing, she learns more about its owner, Edna "Eddie" Ferguson. Leading up to the Great Snowstorm of 1944, Eddie, a brickmaker, enters into a passionate yet ill-fated affair with her boss's daughter. While uncovering the past, Laura navigates both the death of her mother and a troubled marriage straining under the weight of her infertility. Across two paralyzing winter storms, set nearly seventy years apart and connected by a house and a murder, Semi-Detached contends with living after loss, love, and the meaning of home. Insightful and evocative, emotionally intelligent and propulsive, this is a novel from a writer at the top of her game.
About the author
Elizabeth Ruth's first novel, Ten Good Seconds of Silence, was a finalist for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Amazon.ca/First Novel Award, and City of Toronto Book Award. Smoke, her second novel, was chosen for the One Book, One Community program and her third was long-listed for Canada Reads.
Natalie Duke is a SOVAS and Emmy Award-winning voice actor with over 100 audiobooks to her name. She specializes in snark, sass, and sarcasm, but can artfully portray a wide range of emotions and personalities. Natalie lives in Chicago with her spouse, kids, and too many pets.
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