The Edge Of The Earth: A Novel

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Synopsis

From the author of Drowning Ruth, a haunting, atmospheric novel set at the closing of the frontier about a young wife who moves to a far-flung and forbidding lighthouse where she uncovers a life-changing secret.

In 1898, a woman forsakes the comfort of home and family for a love that takes her to a remote lighthouse on the wild coast of California. What she finds at the edge of the earth, hidden between the sea and the fog, will change her life irrevocably.

Trudy, who can argue Kant over dinner and play a respectable portion of Mozart’s Serenade in G major, has been raised to marry her childhood friend and assume a life of bourgeois comfort in Milwaukee. She knows she should be pleased, but she’s restless instead, yearning for something she lacks even the vocabulary to articulate. When she falls in love with enigmatic and ambitious Oskar, she believes she’s found her escape from the banality of her preordained life.

But escape turns out to be more fraught than Trudy had imagined. Alienated from family and friends, the couple moves across the country to take a job at a lighthouse at Point Lucia, California—an unnervingly isolated outcropping, trapped between the ocean and hundreds of miles of inaccessible wilderness. There they meet the light station’s only inhabitants—the formidable and guarded Crawleys. In this unfamiliar place, Trudy will find that nothing is as she might have predicted, especially after she discovers what hides among the rocks.

Gorgeously detailed, swiftly paced, and anchored in the dramatic geography of the remote and eternally mesmerizing Big Sur, The Edge of the Earth is a magical story of secrets and self-transformation, ruses and rebirths. Christina Schwarz, celebrated for her rich evocation of place and vivid, unpredictable characters, has spun another haunting and unforgettable tale.

Chapters

  • EdgeOfTheEarth 01 Title

    Duration: 27s
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 02 Jane1977

    Duration: 17min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 03 Ch1

    Duration: 09min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 04 Ch2

    Duration: 06min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 05 Ch3

    Duration: 26min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 06 Ch4

    Duration: 07min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 07 Ch5a

    Duration: 18min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 08 Ch5b

    Duration: 23min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 09 Ch6

    Duration: 17min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 10 Ch7

    Duration: 16min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 11 Ch8

    Duration: 20min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 12 Ch9

    Duration: 06min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 13 Ch10

    Duration: 11min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 14 Ch11

    Duration: 13min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 15 Ch12

    Duration: 14min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 16 Ch13

    Duration: 10min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 17 Ch14

    Duration: 08min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 18 Ch15

    Duration: 10min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 19 Ch16

    Duration: 14min
  • EdgeOfTheEarth 20 Ch17

    Duration: 21min
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