Narrator Caitlin Kelly fills each character’s voice with personality in this audiobook. The story moves from 1997, when a terrible tragedy changes the life of free-spirited Zinny, to a period 20 years later. Now known as Ginny, she is once again facing a life-changing disaster, even as old secrets demand an honest reckoning. Kelly gives Zinny a perky voice, while Ginny speaks in a mature, measured tone. Daughter Avery echoes young Zinny’s voice. Mother Adela, even as her health deteriorates, has a voice dripping with arrogance as she spins events and uses power without apology. Best friend Kirsten, the queen bee in high school, still has a snarky voice. As portrayed by Kelly, brother Trevor, first love Gray, nerdy friend CJ, and husband Harris add spice to the mix. N.E.M. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
I'd Give Anything: A Novel
Narrated by Caitlin Kelly
Marisa de los SantosUnabridged — 9 hours, 14 minutes
I'd Give Anything: A Novel
Narrated by Caitlin Kelly
Marisa de los SantosUnabridged — 9 hours, 14 minutes
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Overview
From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me comes a profound and heart-rending story about a horrific tragedy that marks one woman and her hometown and about the explosive secrets that come to light twenty years later.
Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle of friends for whom she would do anything. Because of one terrible night, she loses them all-and her adventurous spirit-seemingly forever. While the town cheers on the high school football team, someone sets the school's auditorium ablaze. Ginny's best friend Gray Marsden's father, a fire fighter, dies in the blaze.
While many in the town believe Daniel York, a notoriously troubled local teen, set the fire, Ginny makes a shattering discovery that casts blame on the person she trusts most in the world. Ginny tells no one, but the secret isolates her, looming between her and her friends and ruining their friendship.
Over the next two decades, Ginny puts aside her wanderlust and her dreams. Moving back to her hometown, she distances herself from the past and from nearly everyone in it. She marries a quiet man, raises their daughter, Avery, and cares for her tyrannical, ailing mother, Adela. But when Ginny's husband, Harris, becomes embroiled in a scandal, Ginny's carefully controlled life crumbles, and, just when she believes she is regaining her bearings, the secret she's kept for twenty years emerges and threatens to destroy her hopes for the future.
With the help of fifteen-year-old Avery and of friends both old and new, Ginny must summon the courage to confront old lies and hard truths and to free herself and the people she loves from the mistakes and regrets that have burdened them for so long.
'I'd Give Anything' is a heart-rending story about a horrific tragedy that marks one woman and her hometown and about the explosive secrets that come to light twenty years later.
Ginny Beale is eighteen, irreverent, funny, and brave, with a brother she adores and a circle of friends for whom she would do anything.
HarperCollins 2024
Editorial Reviews
03/02/2020
De los Santos’s heartfelt latest (after I'll Be Your Blue Sky) illustrates how tragedy can be overcome by love, honesty, and forgiveness. In 1997, the bonds of teenage Virginia “Zinny” Beale’s friend group are tested after the death of Zinny’s boyfriend Gray’s father, a firefighter who died putting out a fire. Soon after, Zinny overhears a fight between her mother, Adela, and Zinny’s beloved older brother, Trevor. Trevor loathes Adela, a wealthy, steely matron, and after his fights with Adela persist, he leaves for college and never returns. The tension at home causes Zinny to withdraw from her friends, including Gray. Twenty years later, Zinny is Ginny Beale McCue, married to the bland, dependable Harris. After Harris loses his job due to a scandal resulting from affectionate emails he sent to an 18-year-old intern, Ginny turns her attention to their precocious 15-year-old daughter, Avery. As Avery investigates her father’s behaviors, Ginny looks back on her regrets about losing cherished teenaged friendships and her decision to settle with Harris. Thoughtful musings, engaging dialogue, and ironic wit (“it has adult bone structure,” Harris says, defensively describing his intern’s face) add to the drama. De los Santos’s seemingly light tale is full of surprises. (May)Correction: An earlier version of this review listed the incorrect title for the author's previous book.
Written in gorgeous prose, I'd Give Anything is a novel about the mistakes we make, and how we can confront them and move forward.” — Popsugar
"With Marisa de los Santos’ beautiful descriptions of the settings and her vivid characters who, you’ll feel, are just like your friends growing up, I’d Give Anything is a piece of art. . . . This book is a wonderful read that will have you falling in love with its characters.” — Manhattan Book Review
“De los Santos’s heartfelt latest illustrates how tragedy can be overcome by love, honesty, and forgiveness. . . . Thoughtful musings, engaging dialogue, and ironic wit . . . add to the drama.” — Publishers Weekly
“As fans know, de los Santos uses exquisitely luxurious, poetic writing to tell her characters’ stories. She knows exactly where she’s going and how and when to get there. The rhythm of the prose will more than please those who love the thoughtful, precise language of Anne Tyler and Joshilyn Jackson.” — Booklist
"There’s nothing that Marisa de los Santos writes that I won’t read. Her writing is warm and accessible, like open arms welcoming us into the story. . . . In true Marisa de los Santos fashion, she weaves a compelling, wisely plotted story with characters you want to hang out with and have as friends. She addresses weighty issues with beautiful prose." — Bookreporter.com
"Smart prose and sharply drawn characters set this domestic drama apart." — Library Journal
"An engaging story about regrets and second chances." — People
“With her signature warmth and wisdom, [de los Santos] explores the ripple effects of that night on Ginny's life. . . . This story, in true de los Santos fashion, is full of hope and people who are willing to try.” — Shelf Awareness
"A luminous exploration of wanderlust, friendship, and fire." — Entertainment Weekly
Written in gorgeous prose, I'd Give Anything is a novel about the mistakes we make, and how we can confront them and move forward.
"An engaging story about regrets and second chances."
As fans know, de los Santos uses exquisitely luxurious, poetic writing to tell her characters’ stories. She knows exactly where she’s going and how and when to get there. The rhythm of the prose will more than please those who love the thoughtful, precise language of Anne Tyler and Joshilyn Jackson.
With her signature warmth and wisdom, [de los Santos] explores the ripple effects of that night on Ginny's life. . . . This story, in true de los Santos fashion, is full of hope and people who are willing to try.
"There’s nothing that Marisa de los Santos writes that I won’t read. Her writing is warm and accessible, like open arms welcoming us into the story. . . . In true Marisa de los Santos fashion, she weaves a compelling, wisely plotted story with characters you want to hang out with and have as friends. She addresses weighty issues with beautiful prose."
"With Marisa de los Santos’ beautiful descriptions of the settings and her vivid characters who, you’ll feel, are just like your friends growing up, I’d Give Anything is a piece of art. . . . This book is a wonderful read that will have you falling in love with its characters.
"A luminous exploration of wanderlust, friendship, and fire."
As fans know, de los Santos uses exquisitely luxurious, poetic writing to tell her characters’ stories. She knows exactly where she’s going and how and when to get there. The rhythm of the prose will more than please those who love the thoughtful, precise language of Anne Tyler and Joshilyn Jackson.
04/01/2020
Teenager Ginny Beale was wildly creative, adventurous, and incredibly loyal to her brother and her three best friends, but that all changed the night she learned a devastating secret about the fire that killed her best friend's dad. Twenty years later, Ginny discovers another life-changing secret: her nice, dependable husband has been fired from his job as the result of a dalliance with an 18-year-old intern who is only three years older than their daughter, Avery. Ginny immediately takes action to spin the story and try to protect her daughter, who already has issues with anxiety and insomnia. In the midst of this crisis, Ginny also has to grapple with her dying mother, another relationship fraught with issues. Then when Avery finds her mom's teenage journal from 1997, Ginny has to face her deepest secret again and finally confront the past. VERDICT Alternating viewpoints, from the journal entries to Ginny and Avery in the present, give the story more perspective and slowly build the tension as the truth of what really happened 20 years ago is revealed. Smart prose and sharply drawn characters set this domestic drama apart in best-selling de los Santos's latest (after I'll Be Your Blue Sky). [See Prepub Alert, 11/11/19.]—Melissa DeWild, Comstock Park, MI
Narrator Caitlin Kelly fills each character’s voice with personality in this audiobook. The story moves from 1997, when a terrible tragedy changes the life of free-spirited Zinny, to a period 20 years later. Now known as Ginny, she is once again facing a life-changing disaster, even as old secrets demand an honest reckoning. Kelly gives Zinny a perky voice, while Ginny speaks in a mature, measured tone. Daughter Avery echoes young Zinny’s voice. Mother Adela, even as her health deteriorates, has a voice dripping with arrogance as she spins events and uses power without apology. Best friend Kirsten, the queen bee in high school, still has a snarky voice. As portrayed by Kelly, brother Trevor, first love Gray, nerdy friend CJ, and husband Harris add spice to the mix. N.E.M. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940173944627 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Publication date: | 05/12/2020 |
| Series: | Love Walked In , #4 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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