EPISODE · May 15, 2018 · 3 MIN
Ilsa: A Novel by Madeleine L'Engle
from Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age · host Aletha O'Keefe
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329916 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ilsa: A Novel Author: Madeleine L'Engle Narrator: Graham Halstead Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 15, 2018 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A novel about the darker side of love by the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time and the Crosswicks Journals. From the moment Henry Porcher first sees Ilsa Brandes, he worships her. Despite controversy surrounding the young girl, Henry is drawn to her, a fascination that turns into a lifelong infatuation. As the years pass, Ilsa’s memory never leaves him, not until the day he returns to their sleepy Southern hometown and renews their childhood friendship. Henry watches as she becomes a wife, then a mother, then a widow, irrevocably changed by tragedy. This rare and sought-after novel is a portrait of a remarkable woman bound by both the stifling conventions of her time and place, and her own sense of honor and purpose. A departure from L’Engle’s later works, Ilsa is a dark, intriguing novel about passion, fixation, and the real price of unrequited love by an author renowned for her children’s classics as well as her candid personal memoirs.
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