At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen

In her stunning new novel, Gruen returns to the kind of storytelling she excelled at in Water for Elephants: a historical timeframe in an unusual setting with a moving love story. Think Scottish Downton Abbey.After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year’s Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by...

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Details At the Water's Edge

Title	At the Water's Edge
Author	Sara Gruen
Rating	****
ISBN	0385523238
Edition Language	English
Format Type	Hardcover
Number of Pages	348 pages
Genres	Historical Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Romance, Adult, Cultural, Scotland, Adult Fiction, History, World War II, War

Reviews At the Water's Edge

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  Wendy Apr 26, 2015

  I thoroughly enjoyed Like Water For Elephants, by Sara Gruen, and was thrilled to be given the opportunity to read this authors latest novel, At The Water's Edge.Set during WWII, Maddie, her husband Ellis and his best friend Hank leave their pampered high society lives in Philadelphia after falling ...
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  M.J. Feb 08, 2015

  Pitch perfect atmosphere, characters who grow and develop, who anger and impress and please, a story line that ebbs and flows and builds in intensity until you are utterly submerged in the story - turning pages faster than you want to because you want to do the writing justice but you also have to ...
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  Carol Brill Apr 28, 2015

  Sara Gruen is a wonderful writer and storyteller. I've read four of her books and loved every one.At The Water's Edge started slow for me, taking 6 or 8 chapters for me to get attached to the narrator, Maddie. At the start, she, her husband Ellis, and their best friend, Hank, are spoiled, entitled, ...
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  Leanne Mar 31, 2015

  It's been so long since I read Water for Elephants that I only really remember the feeling I got when I read it, and not necessarily any of the finer plot points or the writing style. And At the Water's Edge is not quite that - it didn't excite me or lift my heart the way Water did, but I still like...
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  Angela M Apr 01, 2015

  2.5 stars rounded up. The place and history are well depicted here but I found it difficult to connect with Maddie , the main character until I was at least halfway through the book . When the connection between the opening story and the present story became apparent, I became more interested but it...
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  Susan Apr 03, 2015

  Fifty pages in and all we have are whiny, spoiled rotten, pathetic rich people. I just wanted to smack them. I'll spend my time reading something else....
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  Raeleen Lemay Apr 09, 2015

  WWII? Scotland? LOCH NESS MONSTER? Sign me up. ...