Full name: Etta and Otto and Russell and James: A Novel

Author: Emma Hooper Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780241003329 9781476755687 0241003326 147675568X

I've gone. I've never seen the water, so I've gone there. I will try to remember to come back. Etta's greatest unfulfilled wish, living in the rolling farmland of Saskatchewan, is to see the sea. And so, at the age of eighty-two she gets up very early one morning, takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots, and begins walking the 2,000 miles to water. Meanwhile her husband Otto waits patiently at home, left only with his memories. Their neighbour Russell remembers too, but differently - and he still loves Etta as much as he did more than fifty years ago, before she married Otto. Similar books: Our Homesick Songs by Emma Hooper The Northern Lights by Howard Norman As We Are Now by May Sarton The Haunting of L. by Howard Norman The Museum Guard by Howard Norman The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel Border Songs by Jim Lynch This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! by Jonathan Evison Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel A Curious Earth by Gerard Woodward Cataract City by Craig Davidson Where River Turns to Sky by Gregg Kleiner Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble Sick Heart River by John Buchan Emily, Alone by Stewart O'Nan The Help by Kathryn Stockett A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd