The Sweetness of Forgetting

By: Kristin Harmel

Narrated by: Kim McKean

At 36, Hope McKenna-Smith is no stranger to bad news. She lost her mother to cancer, her husband left her for a 22-year-old, and her bank account is nearly depleted. Her own dreams of becoming a lawyer long gone, she’s running a failing family bakery on Cape Cod and raising a troubled preteen.

Now, Hope’s beloved French-born grandmother Mamie, who wowed the Cape with her fabulous pastries for more than 50 years, is drifting away into a haze of Alzheimer’s. But in a rare moment of clarity, Mamie realizes that unless she tells Hope about the past, the secrets she has held on to for so many years will soon be lost forever. Tantalizingly, she reveals mysterious snippets of a tragic history in Paris. And then, arming her with a scrawled list of names, she sends Hope to France to uncover a 70-year-old mystery.

Hope’s emotional journey takes her through the bakeries of Paris and three religious traditions, all guided by Mamie’s fairy tales and the sweet tastes of home. As Hope pieces together her family’s history, she finds horrific Holocaust stories mixed with powerful testimonies of her family’s will to survive in a world gone mad. And to reunite two lovers torn apart by terror, all she’ll need is a dash of courage, and the belief that God exists everywhere, even in cake....

©2012 Kristin Harmel (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Would never listen to this narrator again!!

If I had sampled before using my credit I would have passed! I would rather have just read the book. This narrator was terrible! There was little difference between the voices of the characters and bad French accent! The story itself was good and enjoyed the storyline.

Narration

I felt the story was very good, but the narration was very flat. It was difficult to listen at times

The Sweetness of Forgetting

A really good book I could not wait to find out what the next chapter held. So enjoyed it all

Completely captivating

This story touches a deep level of loss, love, finding yourself, learning to love with zero example in your life centers around a bakery that you can almost smell through the descriptive words!!! 10/10 recommend!!

Drags

The story line was OK but the narration was irritating. She sounded like she was bored.