Heather Newton
Heather Newton is an award-winning author as well as an attorney. Her novel Under the Mercy Trees was awarded the 2011 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, and it was chosen as a Great Group Reads selection by the Women’s National Book Association. She currently resides with her husband and daughter in Asheville, North Carolina. For more information, visit heathernewton.net.
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The Puppeteer’s Daughters
- By: Heather Newton
- Narrator: Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: July 26, 2022
- Language: English
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3.85(85 ratings)
Famed puppeteer and master manipulator Walter Gray surprises his three daughters by announcing there is a fourth at his 80th birthday party. An incomplete paternity test–and a will that places a condition on each daughter’s inheritance–suggest that the missing daughter isn’t a figment of his dementia.
Jane, the eldest, is tired of her father’s eccentricities. She remembers the scarcity of her childhood and doesn’t want another sister to share the birthright.
Rosie, born out of wedlock, sees the missing sister as her key to acceptance as a full member of the puppeteer’s family.
Cora, the youngest, born after Walter achieved fame and fortune, is most concerned with extricating herself from running Walter’s company so that she can pursue her own life.
The sisters each knew a different version of their enigmatic father, but all grew up in the presence of fairy tales acted out with marionettes and shadow puppets. If they are to find the fourth daughter and claim the legacy their father has left them, the three must confront their fractured relationships with their father and each other. Infused with fairy tales that sometimes spill magic into the sisters’ real lives, The Puppeteer’s Daughters is a stunningly woven family saga about the cost and rewards of claiming a creative life.
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- By: Heather Newton
- Narrator: Andrew Eiden
- Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 10, 2019
- Language: English
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3.53(631 ratings)
Thirty years ago, Martin Owenby came to New York City with dreams of becoming a writer. Now his existence revolves around cheap Scotch and weekend flings with equally damaged men. When he learns that his older brother, Leon, has gone missing, he must return to the Owenby farm in Solace Fork, North Carolina, to assist in the search. But that means facing a past filled with regrets, the family that never understood him, the girl whose heart he broke, and the best friend who has faithfully kept the home fires burning. As the mystery surrounding Leon’s disappearance deepens, so too does the weight of decades-long unresolved differences and unspoken feelings–forcing Martin to deal with the hardest lessons about home, duty, and love.
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