The Memory Chair by Susan White
SYNOPSIS
Thirteen-year-old Betony has always
hated going to her cranky great-grandmother’s house. It’s old and stuffy and
boring and the woodstove in the kitchen is always burning too hot. But her Gram
doesn’t have any other family living close by on the Kingston Peninsula, so
Betony ends up being dragged along all the time.
She’d rather be pretty much
anywhere…until one day Betony sits on her Gram’s favourite chair. She is
suddenly transported into the past, and is experiencing her Gram’s life as if
it were in her own memory. At first Betony is excited and curious, and begins
to develop a close relationship with Gram, even learning to cook and quilt. But
after she has experienced a few more of her great-grandmother’s memories, she
realizes she is slowly uncovering a terrible, shameful family secret.
PURCHASE
THE AUTHOR
Sue White was born in
New Brunswick and moved from one New Brunswick city to another. As a teenager
her family moved to the Kingston Peninsula and she only left long enough to
earn her BA and BEd at St. Thomas University in Fredericton. Settling on the peninsula,
she and her husband raised four children and ran a small farm while she taught
elementary school. Since retiring she is grateful to now have the time to work
on her writing and the freedom to regularly visit her new granddaughter in
Alberta.
Christine currently
lives in the Kansas City area with her husband, Austin, who has been her
biggest fan and the key to her success. They have two beautiful children.
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My Review:
I love time travel stories and this is a kind of time travel story. Betony is only thirteen when she is forced to go to her great-grandmother's house. When she is there she sits in one of her chairs. As she does she is transported back to different times in her great-grandmother's life. She starts to realize that all is not as it seems and something happened in the family many years ago that no one ever talks about. She decides to try to figure out what happened. Will it be a bad thing or a good thing? will she be able to fix what went wrong so many years before? I give this book a 5./5. I was given this book for a review and all opinions are mine.
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