Elizabeth’s most recent novel, The Promised Land, won second place in Literary Fiction at the 2021 Georgia Author of the Year Awards and won the 2021 Carol Award for Contemporary Fiction.įor over thirty-five years, Elizabeth and her husband, Paul, have been involved in missions’ work in Europe with One Collective, formerly International Teams. The Long Highway Home was a finalist for the 2018 Carol Award. Two Destinies, the final novel in The Secrets of the Cross trilogy, was a finalist for the 2013 Christy Award. All of Elizabeth’s novels have been translated into multiple languages and have been international bestsellers. Elizabeth’s award winning, best-selling novel, The Swan House, was named one of Amazon’s Top Christian Books of the Year, one of Georgia’s Top Ten Novels of the Past 100 Years and was awarded the Gold Illumination Book Award 2021 for Enduring Light Fiction. There is an allure to this writing.ELIZABETH MUSSER writes ‘entertainment with a soul’ from her writing chalet-tool shed-outside Lyon, France. Will I read on? After all, there are apparently six more volumes. Nevertheless, I quickly grew tired of both Swann and Odette I kept hoping the story would return to the child, but it never did.
Swann only grew to be intrigued with Odette after he realized she did not care for him, and that seemed oddly true. The second part is the story of Swann, a friend of the child's parents, and Swann's obsession with Odette. The narrator tells stories of his childhood, his deep fears, his need for his mother, his peculiar aunt, and each story is filled with rich and sensual details.
The first part is the story of the narrator as a child, and I have to say that I much preferred this part of the book. Like my writing teacher said yesterday when I told her I was listening to an audiobook of Swann's Way, it's the perfect classic to listen to (unless, she added, you are going to be tested on it), as it goes on and on with details that are superfluous to the story. I listened to an audiobook of Swann's Way.
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