Words Unspoken
by Elizabeth Musser
Paperback
Price: £8.99
Publisher:Bethany House imprint of Baker Pub from Lion
Published:2009
ISBN:978-0-764-20373-2
GoodBookStall Review:
Before this story starts we are told that teenage driver Lissa (Melissa Randall) was driving her mother home from visiting her horse, when a fierce hail storm caused her to skid and come to a halt in the emergency lane of the highway. When her mother walked round the car to take over the driving she is hit by another car and killed instantly.
Understandably Lissa’s life is changed instantly. From high flying academic student and show jumper, competent learner driver, in fact competent in everything she did, she becomes seriously depressed, unable to drive, not wanting to go to college, struggling through a day at a time, and working in the library of her old school.
She fails her driving test several times due to panic attacks, until it is suggested that she approach MacAllister’s Driving School and with the help of the elderly driving instructor with his unconventional ways her life changes for the better.
Near the beginning of the book we are introduced to other seemingly random characters, but as the book unfolds we begin to see how these lives are intertwined in unexpected ways.
A captivating book that I could not put down and would read again immediately if only I had the time: not one to give away!
Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew (09/01/10)
Before this story starts we are told that teenage driver Lissa (Melissa Randall) was driving her mother home from visiting her horse, when a fierce hail storm caused her to skid and come to a halt in the emergency lane of the highway. When her mother walked round the car to take over the driving she is hit by another car and killed instantly.
Understandably Lissa’s life is changed instantly. From high flying academic student and show jumper, competent learner driver, in fact competent in everything she did, she becomes seriously depressed, unable to drive, not wanting to go to college, struggling through a day at a time, and working in the library of her old school.
She fails her driving test several times due to panic attacks, until it is suggested that she approach MacAllister’s Driving School and with the help of the elderly driving instructor with his unconventional ways her life changes for the better.
Near the beginning of the book we are introduced to other seemingly random characters, but as the book unfolds we begin to see how these lives are intertwined in unexpected ways.
A captivating book that I could not put down and would read again immediately if only I had the time: not one to give away!
Reviewer: Mary Bartholomew (09/01/10)
