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Ann Marie Stewart

    This author has loved crafting stories and performing since childhood, finding joy in evoking laughter and tears from audiences. She draws inspiration from the unscripted drama of life on her farm, which fuels her distinctive narrative voice. Beyond writing, her creative energies extend to directing musicals and teaching, experiences that undoubtedly enrich her storytelling. Her work is characterized by a powerful ability to connect with readers on an emotional level.

    The Ravishing Restoration
    Out of the Water
    Stars in the Grass
    • 2021

      Out of the Water

      • 426 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Christy Award(R) winning author, Ann Marie Stewart delivers a powerful and heartfelt novel revealing five generations of secrets. In the search for healing and truth, a century of stories unravel from the stony cliffs of Ireland, to Boston, France, and Seattle. Irish immigrant Siobhan Kildea's impetuous flight from a Boston lover in 1919 leads her to a new family in an unfamiliar Montana prison town. After a horrific tragedy impacts her children, her land, and her livelihood, Siobhan makes a heart wrenching decision - with consequences that ripple for decades to come. Mysteriously linked to Siobhan is Genevieve Marchard, a battlefront nurse in France who returns stateside to find the absence of a certain soldier is her greatest loss; Anna Hanson, a music teacher who tucks herself away in a small Washington town, assuming her secrets are safe; and Erin Ellis, who thinks she and her husband won the lottery when they adopted their daughter, Claire. These interconnected stories, spanning three continents and five generations, begin to unravel in 1981 when Claire Ellis sets out to find her biological mother. With puzzling suspense, unforgettable characters and uncanny insight, Out of the Water is an intoxicating novel of motherhood, secrets, and the profound ramifications our decisions have. Readers will be left wondering: ultimately, is it always better to know the truth?

      Out of the Water
    • 2017

      Stars in the Grass

      • 456 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      "The text of this Large Print edition is unabridged" -- Verso title page.

      Stars in the Grass
    • 2010