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Empty Arms (2011)

by Erika Liodice(Favorite Author)

4.16 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0615591418 (ISBN13: 9780615591414)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Dreamspire Press

review 1: Goodreads First Reads GiveawayA very snowy Minnesota day allowed me the greatest pleasure. To curl up by the fire, drink hot chocolate and pass the day away reading Empty Arms by Erika Liodice.A haunting yet beautiful tale of Catharine Chase who is struggling to connect with a shattered past of a child that she lost at sixteen when she was forced to give her up for adoption. Now married, and struggling to conceive, Catharine finds herself and her marriage hanging by a thread of secrets that she is desperately trying to conceal. The anguish and longing projects from the pages and envelopes you in the unimaginable heartache that this woman feel. As Catharine's world spins further into despair, she finds herself searching for the one thing that will make her whole again. A pa... morege turner in the finest sense by an author who is a force to be reckoned with. Empty Arms is a beautiful and noteworthy novel that I will wholeheartedly recommend.
review 2: Catherine Chase struggles with a secret and suffers from nightmares and emotional scars. In the innocence of young love, catherine finds herself pregnant at 16. At the insistence of her parents, she is shipped off to a maternity home. The girls console and support one another, but the staff is harsh and unsmypathetic. What the girls don't know is that they will not be allowed to keep their babies. When Cate and her husband Paul find themselves unable to have a baby, Paul pushes for adoption. Cate cannot accept adopting a child in the wake of memories of her daughter being ripped from her arms. The fallout results in her and Paul separating. Finding no support from her mother, Cate is lost and vows to search for her daughter. With revalations that occur after the death of her mother, Cate has enough information to find her daughter. It left me considering how our lives can be shaped by a moment, a choice, a secret kept, and perceptions of others. less

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