The Lost Hours

By: Karen White

Narrated by: Beth Devries

When Piper Mills was 12, she helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her grandmother in the backyard. For 12 years, it remained untouched. Now a near-fatal accident has shattered Piper's dreams of Olympic glory. After her grandfather's death, she inherits the house and all its secrets, including a key to a room that doesn't exist - or does it? And after her grandmother is sent away to a nursing home, she remembers the box buried in the backyard.

In it are torn pages from a scrapbook, a charm necklace - and a newspaper article from 1929 about the body of an infant found floating in the Savannah River. The necklace's charms tell the story of three friends during the 1920s - each charm added during the three months each friend had the necklace and recorded her life in the scrapbook.

Piper always dismissed her grandmother as not having had a story to tell. And now, too late, Piper finds she might have been wrong.

©2009 Karen White (P)2009 Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

Weird Pauses in this one!

I loved this book. I have read a few by this author and they are all really good! The one thing about this book that wasn’t great were the weird pauses in sentences. Just pauses. Not even for punctuation, just blank spaces!

A family history

This is a good family history with a lot of interesting characters. I enjoyed listening to this book.

Loved this book!

I love all of the Karen White books that I have read! This is not one of the newer books, but I'm so glad I went back to read it!

Forgiveness is important

I love the bits of wisdom that I seem to always find in books based in the South. Piper, Helen, Lillian, and Annabelle’s stories and how it all ends is sad, heartwarming, and even a love story.
It makes me sad for the past but it also shows how far we’ve come from that era before the civil rights movement. And how important it is to forgive and learn from the past.

what a wonderful story!

well narrated well written and a beautiful story. It's one that will stay with me .