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The Joy of Falling
- Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Eva and Angela must learn to live again. One step at a time.
It has been 15 months since Eva and Angela lost their thrill-seeking husbands in a scuba-diving accident. Both women are trying to navigate their way through the grief, but neither one is making much progress. Angela is barely making ends meet, angry at her husband for leaving her to raise three children on her own. Meanwhile, Eva is stuck, unable to move forward after losing the love of her life and her source of inspiration.
But then Eva gets a life-changing phone call. Before Brent and Wes died, they had signed up for a race of a lifetime - an ultra-marathon in beautiful New Zealand. Eva begs Angela to run the race with her in their husbands’ place, and Angela finally agrees, hoping to finally understand her husband's choices.
Training is exhausting, and the race is even more demanding. Their journey grows more complicated by the presence of two men - Marc is Brent’s best friend who is running the race with Eva and Angela, and Simon King is a writer who is covering their inspiring story. With every step, Eva and Angela must ask themselves questions that they haven’t had the courage to ask before. As the women literally put one foot in front of the other, they wonder: Is it possible to find their way forward in hope?
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- Parkland Mom
- 2020-04-23
A wonderful journey!
I loved this author’s other books so much that I pre-ordered the audiobook for this title. I can’t say enough about it.
It’s not just a story of dealing with grief. It’s about so much more. The character’s strengths and weaknesses are relatable and real. You feel as though you’re growing and changing with them. They feel like friends that you want to go and have coffee (or hot chocolate) with. ;-)
My two favourite areas of the book come in chapter 17 and chapter 34. Chapter 17 talks about aiming for joy instead of happiness. Chapter 34 shares the joy of falling and trusting God to catch us and carry us.
On a side note:
Listening to this book during the Coronavirus pandemic made me think about how we are all trying to deal with this abrupt change in life. We are all learning to process and adapt. We can either bleed and go through this “ultramarathon,” or we can let it beat us down and quit. It makes me think of the verses in The New Testament about life being likened to running a race. This book was a journey and had so many life lessons.
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