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The Muir House
by
Mary E. DeMuth (Goodreads Author)
'You'll find home one day. Sure as sweet tea on a hot afternoon.' Words from Willa Muir's sketchy childhood haunt her dreams and color her days with longing, regret, and fear. What do the words mean? Willa is far from sure. When Hale Landon places a ring on her finger, Willa panics, feeling she can't possibly say yes when so much in her past is a mystery. Bent on sorting o...more
Paperback, 325 pages
Published
July 5th 2011
by Zondervan
(first published April 12th 2011)
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THE MUIR HOUSE by Mary DeMuth is an interestinginspirational contemporary romance set in small town Texas. The plot is interesting,engaging,believable and will kept your attention. The characters are believable,engaging and will capture your heart. It has romance,secrets,childhood dreams,trauma,healing,love,fatih,choices people make to keep their reputations intact,mystery,drama,fears and triumphs. While Willa is looking for her home,she will find her home and so much more.Finally she will find...more
Did your childhood leave holes in memory or heart? Has your painful past eroded today’s joy? What if returning home could open a time capsule where untold memories are held? Would you go?
Willa Muir is on a quest for missing memories. Clues to her past flit in and out, like a butterfly that touches down and is off again. The glint of a gold ring, a green-eyed man, vague words of hope and home alight then fly away.
“What if home is a person, Wills? What if I am your home?” Hale’s words, and the g...more
Mary DeMuth has written a page-turner that had me holding my breath as I turned the next page. I questioned, "What happens next?" more than once throughout reading The Muir House.
Meet Willa Muir. An interior decorator who's been "cutting" since she was a young girl. A woman afraid to commit her life to another, because she has a hole in her existence. She can remember every year of her life, but one...
Hale wants to marry Willa, as well as see her whole. He's reminded her of her need for Jesus, b...more
Meet Willa Muir. An interior decorator who's been "cutting" since she was a young girl. A woman afraid to commit her life to another, because she has a hole in her existence. She can remember every year of her life, but one...
Hale wants to marry Willa, as well as see her whole. He's reminded her of her need for Jesus, b...more
She left one life behind for another, quite different than how she grew up, but she's learning she hasn't left it behind. Haunted by dreams and memories that she can't remember or place in her life, she begins a journey to claim the truth. Willa Muir goes home, to the house she grew up in, The Muir House. She finds the memory of her cherished father, the failing health of an unloving mother, and the mysterious grumpiness of the house caretaker. Old and new friends help and hinder her quest. Will...more
Mary DeMuth's book, The Muir House, is a rich telling of a young 28-year-old young lady, Willa Muir, who is haunted by her dreams and days of longing to know about the `blank memory year' of her childhood. She has a deep sense of wanting to be loved and finding where she belongs, as her life seems like such a mystery and so scattered. She's convinced if she finds that missing piece, her life will be resolved. But does she realize it could open another can of worms to haunt her even more?
Then, wh...more
Then, wh...more
Willa Muir grew up believing that her father loved her beyond measure, but that her mother could barely stand the sight of her, but when a wedding proposal by her boyfriend Hale causes her to realize the only way she can move forward with her life is to figure out the secrets that have haunted her for years. When she gets a call from the caretaker of her former home, The Muir House,to come and help with redecorating because the former funeral home is being transformed into a B&B, Willa decid...more
A young woman’s search for truth...
Willa Muir's cloudy recollections of her childhood make her unable to fully "let go" and love as an adult. When she runs from Hale's marriage proposal, Willa realizes she needs to sort out her fears if she ever wants a chance at happiness.
Determined to unlock the secrets of her vague childhood memories, she travels cross-country to her hometown. Willa stays in the house where she grew up, hoping its familiar walls will jiggle her memory and release the truth a...more
Willa Muir's cloudy recollections of her childhood make her unable to fully "let go" and love as an adult. When she runs from Hale's marriage proposal, Willa realizes she needs to sort out her fears if she ever wants a chance at happiness.
Determined to unlock the secrets of her vague childhood memories, she travels cross-country to her hometown. Willa stays in the house where she grew up, hoping its familiar walls will jiggle her memory and release the truth a...more
The Muir House
Mary DeMuth
Published by Zondervan
Source: Review copy
Old houses, family secrets, missing memories, search for answers…
Oh I love these kind of books. Read this one nearly straight through, unfortunately the need for sleep, well, got in the way of a straight read! Loved this book. Willa Muir has vivid recollections of much of her childhood minus a time when she was 4 years old. She just can’t seem to piece together what happened that year and why she is blocking it out. Her relationsh...more
Mary DeMuth
Published by Zondervan
Source: Review copy
Old houses, family secrets, missing memories, search for answers…
Oh I love these kind of books. Read this one nearly straight through, unfortunately the need for sleep, well, got in the way of a straight read! Loved this book. Willa Muir has vivid recollections of much of her childhood minus a time when she was 4 years old. She just can’t seem to piece together what happened that year and why she is blocking it out. Her relationsh...more
‘You’ll find home one day. Sure as sweet tea on a hot afternoon.’ Willa Muir hears these words over and over in her dreams and can't help but suspect that they're glimpses of 1 year in her childhood that she can't remember. She leaves Washington and her boyfriend behind after denying his wedding proposal to head back home to Texas in search of answers. Awating her is her childhood home, the Muir House Bed and Breakfast, which was a former funeral home. When she arrives, it seems the whole town i...more
I enjoyed this book. Willa Muir decides to head home after Genie, the housekeeper, has requested her help to redecorate the Muir House. It is being turned into a Bed and Breakfast [it was a Funeral Home].
Hale has asked Willa to marry him, but she has refused!
Willa has know for a long time that something is missing in her memory. Around the age of 4 there is a blank memory...she has dreams and keeps a journal, but still hasn't been able to figure it all out.
She does know that her Mother intense...more
Hale has asked Willa to marry him, but she has refused!
Willa has know for a long time that something is missing in her memory. Around the age of 4 there is a blank memory...she has dreams and keeps a journal, but still hasn't been able to figure it all out.
She does know that her Mother intense...more
Willa is a young woman who is looking for a place to call home, she has secrets locked inside of her that she can't remember. As she begins to search for the secrets to who she is she learns who she is. There is powerful symbolism between the Muir house that Willa is to refurbish and Willa herself. They both are in shambles. My favorite quote from the book is found on page 125 "Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. And go into the irresistible future with Him."
Mary has wri...more
Mary has wri...more
There is a powerful symbolism in “The Muir House” between Willa’s old home and Willa herself. And as the story progresses, that symbolism only becomes more clear.
Willa is a young woman desperately searching for “her” place in the world. But there are so many secrets locked within her, that it pushes her away from everyone and everything around her. Until she comes to her moment of breaking.
The story is told through her surroundings. There isn’t a lot of dialogue (what is though is excellent), bu...more
Willa is a young woman desperately searching for “her” place in the world. But there are so many secrets locked within her, that it pushes her away from everyone and everything around her. Until she comes to her moment of breaking.
The story is told through her surroundings. There isn’t a lot of dialogue (what is though is excellent), bu...more
The truth will set you free—or will it? Willa Muir believes wholeheartedly that it will, and will stop at nothing to piece together her missing memories of early childhood. In fact, she has boxes of memories, dreams, thoughts, and images stored in her attic to help her do just that. She thinks she has moved on with her life, renting a house in Seattle and establishing her career there. But when her boyfriend, Hale, proposes she realizes just how much she has not moved on and turns him down in a...more
The Muir House by Mary DeMuth is about a young, determined woman named Willa Muir who is looking for home and a missing year, a missing memory. She turns down a marriage proposal believing her life is too unstable with missing memories. Willa was starting to piece together some fragments when the house she was staying at in Seattle burns to the ground. She feels driven back to where she grew up—Rockwall, Texas. There she tries to sort through her feelings about her deceased father, her dying mot...more
"The Muir House" is by Mary DeMuth and takes place in the small but growing town of Rockwall, Texas. Willa Muir, recently of Seattle and fleeing a proposal from her boyfriend, returns to her hometown of Rockwall amid some interesting circumstances.
The house Willa grew up in is being turned from a funeral parlor into a bed and breakfast by the caretaker. Willa’s father passed away several years ago, and Willa’s mother is currently in a nursing facility where she suffers from Alzheimer’s disease....more
The house Willa grew up in is being turned from a funeral parlor into a bed and breakfast by the caretaker. Willa’s father passed away several years ago, and Willa’s mother is currently in a nursing facility where she suffers from Alzheimer’s disease....more
I really enjoyed this book but I have to say Mary DeMuth writes a complicated book! I struggle w/ trying to understand what she's really trying to say half the time but eventually it clicks :) in this book Willa is a woman obssessed w/ finding out why she has a year of memory missing from her life. I have to be honest...Willa irked me alot. The year she can't remember was when she was 4. Who remembers that age anyways??!! And her inability to get beyond it got annoying. But the end of the book,...more
Sometimes Christian fiction is a little too pat.....but this book held my interest to the end....loved the characterizations.....no one too perfect....thank goodness.....cause no one in my life is too perfect, including me
Recently I’ve been reading Mary DeMuth’s new ebook, 11 Secrets to Getting Published, in which she reveals her insider knowledge of the writing craft. After thirty-eight pages of instruction on how to fix everything from dangling participles to head hopping, and her accolade of Khaled Hosseini’s writing as “stark, full of detail, and [having] amazing emotive impact” (11 Secrets to Getting Published, page 31), I formed a pretty clear expectation of what DeMuth’s writing style would be like and I w...more
This is the first fiction book that I've read...and immediately re-read. More than fiction, this book was a gift of healing.
Sappy, melodramatic, tedious. Characters are hard to believe and harder to care about.
This is another one that was 3.5 stars. Really well written.
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Not a favorite--could have been half as long & that would have been enough--just not to my liking.
The Muir House was one of my favorite books of the year. The contrasts between light and dark, life and death, and love and heartbreak were incredible. It was so easy to relate to Willa and her struggles. The book was a tapestry of richness, and it exposed endless threads regarding stories about the lives of each character. The message was powerful and endearing. I loved it! This is a keeper for sure.
Well it took me a while to finish reading the book. Its 64 chapters long with some chapters being pretty short. It starts out pretty good, gets a little slow in the middle, but ends up being a really good story. I am glad I finished reading it!!
I have read this book, it is not one of my favorites. The story line and characters are likable, however; the plot needs something to boost the desire to read. I do like how Mary DeMuth uses short chapters with hook lines. This is why I give this book 3 stars
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Mary E. DeMuth loves to help readers turn their trials into triumphs. Her books include Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary God (Harvest House, 2005), Building the Christian Family You Never Had (WaterBrook, 2006), Watching the Tree Limbs, Wishing on Dandelions (NavPress, 2006), and Authentic Parenting in a Postmodern Culture (Harvest House 2007). A mother of three, Mary lives with her husband Patrick and...more
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