Flight Patterns

Author: White, Karen

Brand: Berkley

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Reprint

Features:

• BERKLEY

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 432

Release Date: 28-03-2017

Part Number: 0451470923_Good

Details: Product Description
The New York Times bestselling author of the Tradd Street novels tells the story of a woman coming home to the family she left behind—and to the woman she always wanted to be....

 
Georgia Chambers has spent her life sifting through other people’s pasts while trying to forget her own. But then her work as an expert on fine china—especially Limoges—requires her to return to the one place she swore she’d never revisit....
 
It has been ten years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida, and nothing much has changed except that there are fewer oysters and more tourists. She finds solace in seeing her grandfather still toiling away in the apiary where she spent much of her childhood, but encountering her estranged mother and sister leaves her rattled.
 
Seeing them after all this time makes Georgia realize that something has been missing—and unless she finds a way to heal these rifts, she will forever be living vicariously through other people’s remnants. To embrace her own life—mistakes and all—she will have to find the courage to confront the ghosts of her past and the secrets she was forced to keep....


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Review
Praise for Flight Patterns“A book that is hard to put down until the last secret is uncovered and the last mystery resolved....The true beauty of White’s writing comes in her creation of characters....[It] is one of the most satisfying stories you will read all summer long. The payoff is that good, and the pleasure of White’s words that intense.”—Huffington Post
 
“Bee amazed. 
Flight Patterns is sure to create a buzz!”—#1 
New York Times Bestselling Author Debbie Macomber
 
“An absorbing story of family relationships and their secrets...captivating.”—
Cherokee Tribune (GA)
 
“White creates characters with depth.”—
The Fayetteville Observer (NC)
 
“White is known for her evocative portrayal of Southern settings, and you won’t have to leave your armchair to feel transported.”—
The Augusta Chronicle (GA)
 
“You’ll come away knowing a little more about a lot of things, as well as being superbly entertained.”—
The Florida Times-Union

 
“Vividly explores the relationship between two sisters within a mystery backdrop...an intense and complex story. Readers will be drawn into the plot from the first page. They will take the journey with the characters, trying to unravel the mystery of the family’s secrets and relationships that have been affected by the past.”—
Military Press
About the Author
Karen White is the 
New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including the Tradd Street series,
Dreams of Falling, 
The Night the Lights Went Out, 
Flight Patterns, 
The Sound of Glass, 
A Long Time Gone, and 
The Time Between. She is the coauthor of 
The Forgotton Room and
The Glass Ocean with 
New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. She grew up in London but now lives with her husband and two children near Atlanta, Georgia.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
***This excerpt is from an advance uncorrected proof***

Copyright © 2016 Karen White



Prologue
“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.”
Henry David Thoreau
—Ned Bloodworth’s Beekeeper’s Journal
September 1943
Provence, France
Dead bees fell from the bruised dusk sky, their papery bodies somersaulting in the air, ricocheting like spent shells off the azure-painted roof of the hive. Giles straightened, breathing in the heavy scents of lavender and honey, of summer grasses and his own sweat. And something else, too. Something chemical and out of place in his fields of purple and gold. Something that made sense out of the bees lying like carrion for the swarming swallows above.
“Ah! Vous dirais-je, maman,” sang his three-year-old daughter with her clear, perfect voice from her perch on an upturned bucket, unaware of the sky or the bees or the tremor of fear that shook the breath from his

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