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  • Publisher: Brilliance Audio (August 30, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1441867139
  • ISBN-13: 978-1441867131
  • Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.8 x 5.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (68 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsUnsentimental sentiment
By A Customer on March 25, 2003
Format: Hardcover
This is a wonderful story of sisters separated by life's deepest issues, and how they find their way back to one another. Not just each other, but the other people in their lives. Older sister Luz rediscovers the magic in her longterm marriage. Younger Jessie is facing a life-changing problem just at the moment she learns to fall in love. It all sounds pretty schmaltzy but trust me, it's not. The sisters are hip, funny, sad and altogether human. You'll never forget them, and the lessons they learn along the way.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExpertly Crafted Novel
By Sheri Melnick on April 26, 2003
Format: Hardcover
Many a historical romance author has tried to make the crossover to contemporary fiction. In rare instances, authors excel equally in both genres, and Susan Wiggs is one of those rare exceptions. With her latest novel, she explores the bond between sisters Jessie Ryder and Luz Ryder Benning.
After almost sixteen years traveling the globe on photojournalism assignments, Jessie is back to see her beloved sister Luz, three nephews, and fifteen-year-old niece Lila, who is actually the baby Luz and husband Ian adopted from Jess who took off years ago. Through the pain of separation and untold secrets, the sisters try to fit into each other's lives again, as Luz and Ian must decide whether to tell rebellious Lila the truth of her birth. And even Jessie has some secrets regarding Lila's conception. Amidst this very realistic glimpse into one family's drama is the surprising romance Jessie finds with local pilot and widower Dusty Matlock, who has a tragic story of his own.
Expertly drawn characters set against the beautiful Texas landscape are the life force of this compelling novel. Not only is the reader entranced by the unearthing of past secrets, but present-day secrets come to light in this thought provoking read with a unique and believable view of one family's ability to stay together despite personal trauma and tragedy.
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2.0 out of 5 starsGood Writer, Boring Book
By Marcy Casterline O'Rourke on October 21, 2009
Format: Mass Market Paperback
I feel almost guilty reviewing Susan Wigg's "Home Before Dark" because I like her writing so much, her evocative descriptions of place, in this case Texas Hill Country, and her characters are very real and delightful, as is the dialogue. It's just the plot and the theme or through-line were, for me, obvious, trite, unbelievable, and simplistic. By Chapter Three, it was all so programmatic, as if morality and justice were simple equations that could be added up to create "fairness".

First we have the ambitious, selfish, talented, sort of bad girl photographer sister, who slept with the guy who eventually made a good husband for her good beyond belief sister, and got pregnant by him, and left the child for her good sister and her ex-husband to raise. And the photographer sister goes off to New Zealand without telling her sister that the child is her husband's or I mean that her husband is her ex-lover who fathered the child she leaves behind for them to raise. Get it? I mean, really, I know people have secrets, but this is ridiculous. This sort of thing may happen on Oprah or Dr. Phil, but those people are on those shows because they have huge problems. Fact is stranger than fiction, and it's allowed to be, because it's fact and you can't dispute it. But fiction, unless it's fantasy, has to be a little closer to normal, in my book, anyway.

Anyway, the selfish but talented sister is going blind, just so she doesn't get off scot free after committing the the sin of dumping her premature baby of her illicit affair with her sister's soon to be husband, on her poor sister, who is also talented, but gives it all up for family. But never fear, the soon to be blind photographer comes home to help and finds the man of her dreams before she loses her sight. Whew!Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsBeautifully crafted characters with deeply affecting conflicts
By Kate Vale on June 27, 2015
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How would you react when you learn, not that you're going to die, but that you're going to have to live with a disability that will kill your career as a globe-trotting photojournalist? Not only that, but the secrets you've kept for more than 15 years must be set aside? Trouble is, you can't predict how the family members you care most about will react when you reveal those secrets.

Those are the issues Susan Wiggs tackles in this deeply affecting novel of complex characters so carefully detailed that their conflicts have to be taken on by the reader. While Jessie aches to tell her secret, Luz--her sister--hangs back. She, too, fears what such revelation will do to her marriage and her life, but most of all with the child she took in and made her own after Jessie flees.

Through Dusty's lusty entry into her life, Jessie begins to see that she doesn't have to flee again, but will she, anyway? If only to avoid risking yet more hurts?

This is a novel that deserves to be read and read again, living with and loving each of these memorable new character-friends.
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4.0 out of 5 starsengaging relationship novel
By A Customer on April 13, 2003
Format: Hardcover
After living for the past fifteen years in New Zealand and photographing much of the world, Jessie Ryder returns to her hometown of Edenville, Texas near Austin. Jessie suffers from a debilitating illness that will leave her blind, so she needs to see her biological daughter Lila one last time. Years ago Jessie became pregnant after making love to Ian Benning, who later met, fell in love with, and married her sister Luc. Jessie hid the father's identity from everyone and her newly married sister and husband adopted Lila and loved her as their own.
Jessie wants Ian and Luc to tell Lila the truth about whom is her biological mother. As the trio struggles with what is best for Lila, the teen engages in hill hopping which leads to the death of another passenger. Meanwhile, Jessie falls in love with widower neighbor Dusty Matlock and his little girl. However, Jessie does not trust relationships so as she loses her sight she flees, but not before the Bennings tell Lila the truth.
HOME BEFORE DARK is an engaging relationship novel that contains a delightful extended cast. Much of the tale focuses on Jessie, yet readers also learn about the other key characters. Although why Jessie felt that Lila had to know the truth is never fully explained, the audience will savor this warm modern day family drama.
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