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Original Title:	A Sudden Light
ISBN:	0857205781 (ISBN13: 9780857205780)
Edition Language:	English

A Sudden Light

Garth Stein

ebook | Pages: 400 pages

Rating: 3.62 | 12018 Users | 2040 Reviews

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Title	:	A Sudden Light
Author	:	Garth Stein
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	August 28th 2014 by Simon & Schuster UK
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy. Paranormal. Ghosts

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When a boy tries to save his parents’ marriage, he uncovers a legacy of family secrets in a coming-of-age ghost story by the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon, The Art of Racing in the Rain.

In the summer of 1990, fourteen-year-old Trevor Riddell gets his first glimpse of Riddell House. Built from the spoils of a massive timber fortune, the legendary family mansion is constructed of giant, whole trees, and is set on a huge estate overlooking Puget Sound. Trevor’s bankrupt parents have begun a trial separation, and his father, Jones Riddell, has brought Trevor to Riddell House with a goal: to join forces with his sister, Serena, dispatch Grandpa Samuel—who is flickering in and out of dementia—to a graduated living facility, sell off the house and property for development into “tract housing for millionaires,” divide up the profits, and live happily ever after.

But Trevor soon discovers there’s someone else living in Riddell House: a ghost with an agenda of his own. For while the land holds tremendous value, it is also burdened by the final wishes of the family patriarch, Elijah, who mandated it be allowed to return to untamed forestland as a penance for the millions of trees harvested over the decades by the Riddell Timber company. The ghost will not rest until Elijah’s wish is fulfilled, and Trevor’s willingness to face the past holds the key to his family’s future.

A Sudden Light is a rich, atmospheric work that is at once a multigenerational family saga, a historical novel, a ghost story, and the story of a contemporary family’s struggle to connect with each other. A tribute to the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, it reflects Garth Stein’s outsized capacity for empathy and keen understanding of human motivation, and his rare ability to see the unseen: the universal threads that connect us all

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I've said it before but I do not like creepy house stories and I do not like ghost stories. But somehow, I loved this. It was, for the genre, very thriller like. I just kept turning pages faster and faster because I had to know what happened and what the heck was going on.

Book on CD performed by Seth Numrich.I read and loved The Art of Racing in the Rain . This is a VERY different book.Fourteen-year-old Trevor Riddell wants nothing so much as for his parents to be reunited. His parents marriage is stressed by his fathers business failing; theyve lost their home and his mother has gone to England to see her relatives. Meanwhile, Trevor accompanies his father to the home where Dad grew up the extraordinary Pacific Northwest mansion, Riddell House to help Grandpa

REVIEW: A SUDDEN LIGHT by Garth SteinI had never before read any of Garth Stein 's novels, though I own a Kindle copy of THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN. From the first pages of A SUDDEN LIGHT I was enraptured, fascinated, and engrossed. This is a very special novel, an exceptional one. With a plethora of delicately peeled character studies, a multiply hot-button plot, and the ease with which history intertwines with contemporary, and Supernatural with consensus reality--not to mention truly

There are so many reasons why I enthusiastically recommend reading A SUDDEN LIGHT. The prose of this novel is enchanting and matches the dream like state of Riddell House. The plot, which blends historical fiction, ghost story and family saga, is riveting as the Riddell family secrets are slowly unraveled to us through a series of old letters, diary entries and dreams. Finally, the multi-dimensional characters cause you to have an emotional attachment to them and you will be sorry to see them go

Audiobook: -An outstanding walking Companion! First off ... whomever was the voice narrator ... gets an A+ rating from me. He was terrific. I'm just beginning to appreciate the talent a person must have to read an entire novel to hold our interest. From the get-go, the dialogue was engaging. Parts were funny to the point I laughed silly blowing leaves off of trees I passed. There were definitely dark and mysterious moments. The descriptions in this story of the house, land, the giant trees were

As of this date, 2/11/14, it's possible that I'm the only GoodReads reviewer who has actually read this book in manuscript form. It's not yet available in galley. And it's not the time to reveal anything about it other than, you're going to love it. Pure Garth Stein, for all the things you love in his work: strong voice, quirky characters, a little mysticism and magic, breathtaking settings in the Northwest, and a story that takes you by surprise, makes you laugh, then cry, then want to read it

Read this review on my blogThe main character in A Sudden Light is Trevor, a fourteen-year-old boy, who spends the summer in his familys giant estate. His father and aunt are trying to convince their ailing father to sell it, since its very valuable and theyre poor. However, the house is haunted by the ghost of Ben, the son of the familys patriarch, Elijah Riddell. Heres the thing: Ben believes that the North Estate ought to be returned to nature after the family stops living there, and he wont