The Endearment

By: LaVyrle Spencer

Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith

New York Times best-selling author LaVyrle Spencer presents one of her most beloved, enduring stories....

Hoping to escape the shame of her street urchin's life in Boston, Anna Reardon plotted a desperate scheme - to become Karl Lindstrom's mail-order bride in the beautiful, dangerous frontier of Minnesota.

A kind and gentle man, Karl forgave Anna for her deceptions. But there was still one burning secret she had to hide from him, knowing its revelation would destroy the love they had come to cherish.

©1982 LaVyrle Spencer (P)2020 Tantor

The Endearment!

I enjoyed this book so much! The storyline, and performance and over all book is believable and like the title intimates, Endearing! Love it and I miss the characters already!

Such a sweet story with such endearing characters!

The Endearment is endearing, well-crafted and so splendid, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Think I read it long ago, when I used to devour romance novels, but listening to it has been absolutely delightful! Very well performed too, loved the Swedish accents! Beautiful ending and rich details of a bygone era, well worth the listen!

Great listen

The storyline was awesome, and I like the way the narrator handled the different characters

A lovely early Americana romance

The story takes I think in the late 1800 after the civil war but before the automobile. In rural Minnesota it’s about a Swedish immigrant settler who places a bride advertisement in the newspaper and a girl from Boston who answered the bride advertisement with her young brother. The story is very well written, it has depth and breadth with great deal of heart. I thoroughly enjoyed this story about Minnesota settlers.

Beautiful and unique story!

I love that this story is so unique. The way the couple gets together, the lives of Anna and her brother as kids, and the almost unforgivable things that Carl is asked to forgive. So many love stories these days are the same story just told with different characters in different towns. I love that this one is completely different. I also thought the narration was excellent. Many a great book is ruined with poor narration. Of course I have no idea what a Swedish accent should sound like but to me it sounded like she did a great job with it. All in all, I highly recommend this book.