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The lost hours

The award-winning author of The Memory of Water When Piper Mills was twelve, she helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her grandmother in the backyard. For twelve years, it remained untouched. Now a near fatal riding accident has shattered Piper?s dreams of Olympic glory. After her grandfather?s death, she inherits the house and all its secrets, including a key to a room that doesn?t exist?or does it? And after her grandmother is sent away to a nursing home, she remembers the box buried in the backyard. In it are torn pages from a scrapbook, a charm necklace?and a newspaper article from 1939 about the body of an infant found floating in the Savannah River. The necklace?s charms tell the story of three friends during the 1930s? each charm added during the three months each friend had the necklace and recorded her life in the scrapbook. Piper always dismissed her grandmother as not having had a story to tell. And now, too late, Piper finds she might have been wrong.

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  • "The award-winning author of The Memory of Water When Piper Mills was twelve, she helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her grandmother in the backyard. For twelve years, it remained untouched. Now a near fatal riding accident has shattered Piper?s dreams of Olympic glory. After her grandfather?s death, she inherits the house and all its secrets, including a key to a room that doesn?t exist?or does it? And after her grandmother is sent away to a nursing home, she remembers the box buried in the backyard. In it are torn pages from a scrapbook, a charm necklace?and a newspaper article from 1939 about the body of an infant found floating in the Savannah River. The necklace?s charms tell the story of three friends during the 1930s? each charm added during the three months each friend had the necklace and recorded her life in the scrapbook. Piper always dismissed her grandmother as not having had a story to tell. And now, too late, Piper finds she might have been wrong."@en
  • "A near fatal riding accident shattered Piper's dreams of Olympic glory, and after her grandfathers death, she inherits the house and all its secrets. After her grandmother is sent away to a nursing home, she remembers a box buried in the backyard. In it are torn pages from a scrapbook, a charm necklaceand a newspaper article from 1929 about the body of an infant found floating in the Savannah River. And Piper always dismissed her grandmother as not having had a story to tell."@en
  • "Surviving the tragic accident that killed her parents has always made Piper Mills feel invincible. That is, until fate strikes again and a near-fatal fall from a horse destroys her dreams of becoming an Olympic equestrian. Feeling more fragile than ever, Piper returns to Savannah, to the home she inherited from her grandparents, to retreat, recover, and reflect on all she has lost. It's during her recuperation that Piper discovers a secret room and a family mystery ..."
  • "Surviving the tragic accident that killed her parents has always made Piper Mills feel invincible. That is, until fate strikes again and a near-fatal fall from a horse destroys her dreams of becoming an Olympic equestrian. Feeling more fragile than ever, Piper returns to Savannah, to the home she inherited from her grandparents, to retreat, recover, and reflect on all she has lost. It's during her recuperation that Piper discovers a secret room and a family mystery..."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Zagubione godziny"@pl
  • "Zagubione godziny"
  • "The lost hours"@en
  • "The lost hours"
  • "The lost hours : [a novel]"
  • "The Lost Hours"@en

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