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    What the Mountains Remember
    What the Mountains Remember
    What the Mountains Remember
    Audiobook12 hours

    What the Mountains Remember

    Written by Joy Callaway

    Narrated by Brittany Pressley

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    “Joy Callaway weaves a dramatic, heartfelt story of self- discovery and a hard-won love against the stunning backdrop the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World.’” 

    —Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of Time is a River 

    At this wondrous resort, secrets can easily be hidden in plain sight when the eye is trained on beauty.

    April 1913—Belle Newbold hasn’t seen mountains for seven years—since her father died in a mining accident and her mother married gasoline magnate, Shipley Newbold. But when her stepfather’s business acquaintance, Henry Ford, invites the family on one of his famous Vagabonds camping tours, she is forced to face the hills once again—primarily in order to reunite with her future fiancé, owner of the land the Vagabonds are using for their campsite, a man she’s only met once before. It is a veritable arranged marriage, but she prefers it that way. Belle isn’t interested in love. She only wants a simple life—a family of her own and the stability of a wealthy man’s pockets. That’s what Worth Delafield has promised to give her and it’s worth facing the mountains again, the reminder of the past, and her poverty, to secure her future.

    But when the Vagabonds group is invited to tour the unfinished Grove Park Inn and Belle is unexpectedly thrust into a role researching and writing about the building of the inn—a construction the locals are calling The Eighth Wonder of the World—she quickly realizes that these mountains are no different from the ones she once called home. As Belle peels back the facade of Grove Park Inn, of Worth, of the society she’s come to claim as her own, and the truth of her heart, she begins to see that perhaps her part in Grove Park’s story isn’t a coincidence after all. Perhaps it is only by watching a wonder rise from ordinary hands and mountain stone that she can finally find the strength to piece together the long-destroyed path toward who she was meant to be.

    International bestselling author Joy Callaway returns with a story of the ordinary people behind extraordinary beauty—and the question of who gets to tell their stories.

    Praise for What the Mountains Remember:

    “Callaway is back with another insightful rendering of a place and time in history, bringing her trademark attention to detail, warmth, and heart to a story centered around one of the nation’s most beautiful and fabled hotels, the Grove Park Inn in Asheville NC.”?  —Marybeth Mayhew Whalen, author of ten novels and cofounder of The Book Tide 

    A stunning portrayal of the building of the Grove Park Inn that reveals not only its grandeur, but also the struggles of the laborers tasked with its construction, Joy Callaway brings the famed Vagabonds to life with immaculate research and rich details in this intriguing, elegantly written historical fiction that readers are going to love!” 

    —Madeline Martin, New York Times Bestseller author of The Keeper of Hidden Books? 

    • Perfect for fans of The Only Woman in Room and A Well-Behaved Woman
    • Stand-alone novel
    • Includes Discussion Questions
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarper Muse
    Release dateApr 2, 2024
    ISBN9781400244324
    What the Mountains Remember
    Author

    Joy Callaway

    Joy Callaway lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her family. The Fifth Avenue Artists Society is her first novel.

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    • 4/5
      I was first drawn to this book by the cover, thinking that it looked a lot like the Grove Park Inn. Then I read the synopsis - sure enough, it's set during the building of the Grove Park Inn at Asheville NC. So I had to give it a try - I remember going there as a child/teen (I forget exactly how old I was) and my husband and I visited Asheville last summer and stopped by there. It's still a very impressive facility, so I was very interested in reading more about the origins, design and building of the grand old inn.
      What I got was that, along with a lovely romance. It's told through the eyes of Belle Newbold, a young woman whose plan is to marry a man who can take care of her and give her the family she needs - but she's determined not to love this man, because she's seen how much heartache losing a love can bring. She finds herself engaged to Worth Delafield, who fits her needs nicely, especially since he's looking for the same type relationship. Only catch - as they get to know each other, they find themselves liking each other a bit too much. At the same time, we learn about the history of the Inn when Belle's given an opportunity to write an article about it. She's never written professionally, but enjoys writing and chooses to write not just about the money men behind the project, but about the men doing the actual engineering and the labor required to make the dream come to fruition. She faces both personal and professional hitches and pitfalls along the way, and overall it's a very enjoyable ride on both fronts. I listened to the audiobook version, and as usual Brittany Pressley's narration was top-notch. This was my first book from Joy Callaway, but I definitely plan to read some of her older books, and will be on the lookout for more in the future.
      Thanks to Netgalley and Harper Muse for providing a digital copy for an unbiased review.