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    And Then I Found You

    Written by Patti Callahan Henry

    Narrated by Shannon McManus

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    About this audiobook

    Kate Vaughan is no stranger to tough choices. She’s made them before. Now it’s time to do it again.

    Kate has a secret, something tucked away in her past. And she’s getting on with her life. Her business is thriving. She has a strong relationship with her family, and a devoted boyfriend whom she wants to love with all her heart. If Kate had ever made a list, Rowan would fill the imagined boxes of a perfect mate. But she wants more than the perfect-on-paper relationship; she wants a real and imperfect love. That’s why, when Kate discovers the small velvet box hidden in Rowan’s drawer, she panics.

    It always happens this way. Just when Kate thinks she can love, just when she believes she can conquer her fear, she’s filled with dread. And she wants more than anything to make this feeling go away. But how?

    When the mistakes have been made and the running is over, it’s time to face the truth. Kate knows this. She understands that a woman can never undo what can never be undone. Yet for the first time in her life she also knows that she won’t fully love until she confronts those from her past. It’s time to act.

    Can she do it? Can she travel to the place where it all began, to the one who shares her secret? Can the lost ever become found?

    And Then I Found You gives new life to the phrase “inspired by a true story.” By traveling back to a painful time in her own family’s history, the author explores the limits of courage, and the price of a selfless act.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 9, 2013
    ISBN9781441861849
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    And Then I Found You
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    Patti Callahan Henry

    Patti Callahan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of fifteen novels including the Historical Fiction,  Becoming Mrs. Lewis—The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C.S. Lewis and Surviving Savannah.  In addition, she is the recipient of  The Harper Lee Distinguished Writer of the Year for 2020 and the Alabama Library Association Book of the Year for 2019 and The Christy Award—A 2019 Winner ""Book of the Year.” The author is also the host of the popular seven-part original ""Behind the Scenes of Becoming Mrs. Lewis Podcast Series”. Patti is also the Co-creator and co-host of the weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fiction.  Patti and Dottie met when Patti’s first book was released in 2004 at a SIBA conference where the friendship was instant and long lasting. 

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    • 5/5
      Beautiful story and well written. Excellent author. It was very touching.
    • 5/5
      Enjoyed these characters, Kate's original turns of phrase, the storyline and satisfying ending.
    • 3/5
      3.5 stars. I knew where the story would end but it was an enjoyable quick read.
    • 3/5
      I know that this novel was inspired by a true story, but so much in it just seemed improbable. I can't say much without giving away the story, but I just found too much of this to be too coincidental. It's a light, predictable read. I didn't find it particularly moving or inspiring in any way. If you like sugar-sweet stories, you might enjoy this more than I did.
    • 4/5
      And then I found you by Patti Callahan HenryBeautiful story of a lady who becomes pregnant but the guy has gotten married tired of waiting for her.Kate has the baby girl, Luna and gives her up for adoption. Her whole family remembers every March 20 of the birth. Jack and Kate exchange letters to one another about their life and reminiscing about Luna every year of her birth.Chapters go from present to the past and then onto Emily who we learn is Luna and she's trying to find her birth mother. We are able to figure out all the details and the emotions going through each other as the book goes on. Kate is to be married to Rowan and she meets with Jack as he's now divorced to make sure it's going to tell Rowan about Luna.Things escalate as they agree to meet Emily...love the symbolism of the feathers.Have recently listened and read other works by the author and have enjoyed the books.I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device).
    • 5/5
      I loved this e-book! Patti Callahan is one of my favorite authors and never disappoints. This was an incredible love story, written and inspired from the author’s own family. A poignant story of love withstanding the tests of time. Being from the southeast, always love the southern states, as they are so familiar and puts you realistically in the setting. You will fall in love with the characters of this close knit family, the boutique, art studio, their homes (all so charming). This would also be an inspiring book for a mother who is torn with decisions of adoption.

      I loved the wilderness part (says a lot about Katie/Kate, taking on struggles of younger teenage girls, making a lasting impression), Jack and Katie’s love story, forgiveness, and of course the heart felt reunion with their daughter Emily Luna. Patti did a superior job integrating the characters, times, and places to portray an unforgettable well written touching love story. I would love see a sequel possibly with Emily Luna, Lida, Jack and Kate. (In addition, be sure and read the e-book “Friend Request” as great introduction to this incredible story)!
    • 3/5
      I got this book kind of randomly last year from the publisher. This isn’t normally the type of book I read, but I decided to give it a try anyway. Kate Vaughan has had to make a number of tough choices in her past and is having trouble making a commitment to her current boyfriend. Kate has some secrets and baggage from a relationship that she had in her teen's/20's that comes back to haunt her and is jeopardizing her current relationship.This was an okay book. It's one of those tear-jerker reads about finding out what is important in life and learning to love yourself.The writing isn't great, dialogue between characters sounds a bit awkward and doesn't flow as well as it should. It's a pretty short book and there isn't a ton of description so I had some trouble picturing surroundings. That story was also incredibly predictable. Kate’s big secret is pretty apparent right from the beginning of the story.The whole thing was fairly engaging, it's a short read so I didn't have trouble getting through it. However it was a bit too predictable and “lifetime movie” for me. I honestly didn't understand Katie all that well either. I think she made some very poor life decisions and was very whiny about it all. The book ends happy, but it's not the ending I think any of these characters deserved. Things were just so happy happy that it seemed a bit unreal. The whole story seemed a bit too surfacey to me, even though it was trying to deal with some tough family issues.Overall not my favorite contemporary fiction out there. This book was just missing some depth and some heart. The writing was a bit awkward and the characters were hard to like or engage with. It was also a very very predictable story. If you want to read some contemporary fiction with real heart check out some John Green books. If you want to read a wonderful story about a woman dealing with family and finding romance check out Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen (this has some magic but is also a wonderful story about family and love).
    • 3/5
      "It didn’t make any sense, but she was beyond sense now. Life, she believed from living in the wilderness, was tied together by hints, whispers, and unseen fabric-makers. She imagined someone far more knowing than she, sewing together a fragile web that she wouldn’t see until time was done. She could ignore the whispers and threads, everyone could, and she often did, but this time she wouldn’t."

      And Then I Found You, by Patti Callahan Henry is not a mystery. It’s about the oldest story in the world: boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, stuff happens and they break up. Then they get back together again and everybody is happy. No mystery maybe, but, it’s still a yummy, somehow comforting, read. And hey, it had me teary eyed by page 77, and again before the book was done. (I’m not going to go into that aspect of the novel, because it’s already been written about a lot, and it’s also kind of a spoiler.)

      Reading this novel is like watching one of the better movies on Lifetime or the Hallmark channel at the end of a long day, where you just want somebody to tell you a sad story with a happy ending, that doesn’t require too much from your over-taxed brain. But by that I don’t mean to trivialize, because story telling like that takes quiet skill; language that isn’t challenging, yet doesn’t bore, and pacing, which is outstanding in this novel. I can honestly say I was not bored for even one page, though I expected I might be because of some of the tropes used, one example of which is the protagonist runs a trendy clothing boutique.

      When I received this book, the novel of the month for Shereads, I thought I wouldn’t like it. I imagined it would be too sappy for my tastes. But Henry won me over with her writing, which after all, is the only difference between one book and another, when you get right down to it. She has a wonderful ear for dialogue and a gift for economically creating believable secondary characters, and she successfully writes about topics that could easily become overly sentimental.

      From the beginning of the book it’s obvious how the reader wants it all to turn out—and not a surprise when it does. And yet . . . it’s all satisfying; a feeling of rightness falling into place like the tumblers of a lock: click, click, click.

      "The extraordinary happens in the exact middle of ordinary, she thought clearly and permanently. No trumpet blast to announce the moment, no parting of clouds or Hallelujah chorus. Just the simple miracle (as if any miracle is simple) between an in-breath and an out-breath, the wide-open space where the unknown was known, the lost found, and the unseen seen."

      A superb example of its genre.

      This writer’s strengths: Henry knows just how much tension to apply and doesn’t go over the top into melodrama. She’s got a steady hand at the wheel and it very soon becomes obvious how she could be a NY Times bestseller. The writing is economical and doesn’t wear the reader out. Subtle humor; the ass-stealing incident is a good example that had me chuckling—if you want to know more, you’ll just have to read the book.

      Who will enjoy this book: Women, mainly; it’s a rare guy who’d read this novel. This one’s for the girls.

      I can’t comment on the editing since the copy I read is an arc, provided to me by the publisher, St. Martin’s Press, via Shereads.

    • 4/5
      Kate Vaughn and Jack Adams grew up together and loved each other. While Jack is finishing law school, Kate takes a job as a field guide at Winsome Wilderness. Choices, Commitments, and timing come between Kate and Jack. Kate becomes pregnant and make the hard decision to put her up for adoption. Via the internet and FaceBook, Emily Luna Jackson finds her birth parents. Jack and Kate admit they still love each other and marry.
    • 4/5
      Read from May 09 to 10, 2013Listened for Review (Brilliance Audio)Overall Rating: 4.25Story Rating: 4.25Character Rating: 4.25Audio Rating: 4.50 (not part of the overall rating)First Thought When Finished: And Then I Found You was a heart-string pulling story that hits all the right emotional spots!Story Thoughts: And Then I Found You was a little bit romance, a little bit family/loved one drama, and a whole lot emotional. This was a story of one woman's journey in life that included giving up a baby for adoption, making/changing careers, having (and losing and finding) a great love, and finally reconciling her past so that she could have a future. The story will make you cry, make you angry, and make you want to slap some people upside the head. Some choices made by the characters will make you shake your head and cry for them but the journey of this messy life (lives) will resonate to your emotional core.Character Thoughts: There is a character for everyone in this story. While Kate (the main character) is the emotional center of And Then I Found You, it really can be said that her journey impacts so many people that it is their story too. How all of these people interact, engage, and emote will have you being more aware of how your actions and decisions trickle down to others. Kate is not always likable or identifiable but her journey is one of love and understanding. I found myself pulling for her even when I really wanted to go "why are you doing that". Kate is proof that even the most together person on the outside can have scars that we just don't see!Audio Thoughts: Narrated By Shannon McManus / Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins This is a quick and beautifully narrated piece by Shannon McManus. Her emotion, pacing, and styling was perfect for And Then I Found You. I really think the narration added an extra "oomph" to the story and made me connect even more with the characters. I highly recommend this on audio!Final Thought: This was a deviation from the type of story I normally read but I really did enjoy it! I did cry so if you read it grab some hankies!NOTE: I also read the companion self-pubbed book of how Patti Callahan Henry's real life story played into the basis of And Then I Found You! If you get a chance, you should read it too! It is called Friend Request
    • 3/5
      I thought And Then I Found You was very enjoyable read. Katie and Jack are childhood friends and high school sweethearts. After college, they grow apart when Jack goes to law school and then into practice in Alabama and Katie becomes a councilor for troubled girls in the southwest. When Jack informs Katie he is getting married, she goes to see him one last time. A few months later, she realizes she is pregnant-and Jack is already married. Katie chooses to give the baby up for adoption, even though her family, especially her parents, urge her to keep the baby. She believes this is the best solution, even though she knows it is the hardest fro her to live with. Thirteen years later, Katie is living a good life, running a successful boutique and in a serious relationship with her boys friend Rowan. Every year on the first day of spring, their baby’s birthday, she exchanges letters with Jack. This year, she also finds an engagement ring in Rowans nigh stand. She realizes she can not move forward with Rowan until she settles her past and she travels to Birmingham to see Jack. This begins a whole new chapter, that will eventually reunite her with the daughter she gave up thirteen years earlier.Henry explains in a letter to her readers that this book is loosely based on a true story that happened to her family. Over twenty years ago, her middle sister placed her baby for adoption. She states that this was the “most heartrending, courageous, and difficult decision she had ever made…”. Over two years ago, Henry was received a friend request on Facebook from a young girl with the same birthday as the baby that was adopted. Reading this book, one can feel the pain and conflict that goes into this amazingly difficult decision on each side of the equation. Katie struggles with giving up her daughter, always wondering if it was the right decision, if her daughter is happy. We also see how hard it is for the adoptive family to allow their daughter to reconnect with her birth parents.While I enjoyed reading this book very much, there were a few issues I had. Jack seems very excited and happy to see Katie after thirteen years, but when she tries to see him after that, he continually pushes her away. On the other hand, her boyfriend Rowan, who says he wants to be supportive of Katie (and has a ring in his drawer), acts like he can’ stand to be near her much. The two men need to realize how awesome Katie is.
    • 3/5
      Kate Vaughan has loved and lost and will probably be the first to tell you that it isn't better to have loved and lost than never at all. Losing those she's loved has been hard and that pain and loss have been with her every day for the past thirteen years. She's tried to move on with her life and has a successful boutique and is in loving relationship, but she craves what she has lost. In an effort to say goodbye to her past, she makes a trip to Alabama to visit her ex. Jack has moved on with his life and although he's glad to see her he doesn't want to revisit the past. Just when it seems like things couldn't get any worse, her current boyfriend shows up in Alabama . . . at Jack's house. Kate is forced to reveal the secrets of her past and only hopes that Rowan can understand and that they can move forward. Easier said than done because the daughter she gave up for adoption has tracked her down. Kate now has her two lost loves back in her life but isn't quite sure what to do with them.Ms. Henry has provided a story that deals with love, loss and the consequences of our choices. Kate has to deal with the constant reminder from her parents of their lost first grandchild. She deals with the anguish of giving up her daughter for adoption each year on her birthday. Kate wants to build a future with Rowan but is that even possible when she can't let go of the past? Now that she has contact with her biological daughter what does that mean for her and her family, not to mention her daughter's adoptive family? The choices that Kate and others make have unforeseen consequences, some good, some bad and some downright heartbreaking. There aren't any bad guys in this story as everyone is simply trying to do what is best for their families as well as themselves. And Then I Found You is an excellent reminder that we can't live in the past and sometimes the only way to keep something in our lives is to let go . . . trite but fundamentally true. And Then I Found You isn't a happy ever after story but it is a hopeful ever after, as the reader is left with the hope that everything will work out after all.
    • 3/5
      Springtime in Bluffton, South Carolina heralds thirty-five-year-old Kate Vaughan's annual tradition of trying New Things. This spring, her past—which she's tried so hard to keep in place over the past decade—will come marvelously apart; her New Things will make everything change, and everything begin.Composed of flashbacks of only the component parts of Kate's childhood and early adulthood that have led up to the present moment, And Then I Found You details the most determined, devastating decision a mother should ever have to make. These brief evocations slowly clarify her past, and are intermingled with her current conflicts with Rowan—the perfect boyfriend whom she still isn't completely satisfied with—and with her inability to let go of what's already happened.Without giving too much away, I will say I was awed by the plot, especially because it actually happened in the author's life, but was very disappointed by the story itself. Don't get me wrong; Henry's prose is elegant and coherent, but I just feel the book as a whole is kind of boring. Everything that happens isn't exciting—at least not as exciting as the author tries to convey it as. She flits across the complexity of human emotion but doesn't exactly capture it, which is why I couldn't connect with this book, either.My biggest issue however, is Kate. She's just really, really snobby and difficult to understand, or respect, for that matter. I adore all the characters around her, from her sisters to her best friends to her lovers—they are really well created—but she herself is really dislikable. Her mindset is incredibly selfish and stuck up; her mantra is "you don't know what I've experienced so get away from me and stop trying to sympathize with me." I know Henry was trying to convey the difficult emotional burden upon a mother who is forced to part with her child out of "selflessness," but she sacrificed Kate's character to do so. My detachment from and dislike of the protagonist soured the entire mood and perspective of the story.I was proud at Kate's growth, though; throughout the book, she learns she needs to love herself before loving anyone else, and this is something to which all readers will be able to relate. Compassion, even through wistfulness, matters; you just have to be willing to freely give it.Pros: Henry is an accomplished storyteller // Secondary characters are lovable // Fascinating premise // Kate's character development is clearCons: Highly dislikable protagonist // Style is decent, but really mediocre... very forgettable // Not that resonating // Predictable, unsatisfying ending // Rather dull and not suspenseful throughoutLove: "People talked about heartbreak, but in Kate's opinion, hearts don't break, they merely ache and throb until you learn to ignore that same heart all together."Verdict: And Then I Found You wasn't as I good as I thought it would be. The plot revolving around a mother reuniting with her long-lost daughter seemed touching, but in the book, it just isn't portrayed very movingly. However, I am impressed with Patricia Callahan Henry's ability to craft a beautiful, feel-good story about self-actualization and self-discovery. The overarching message is quite affecting as well; this is a book about loss, and about finding—both those you love, and yourself.6 out of 10 hearts (3 stars): Satisfying for a first read, but I'm not going back.Source: Complimentary copy provided by Wunderkind PR in exchange for an honest and unbiased review, for the Itching for Books blog tour.
    • 4/5
      The year is 1988, the first day of Spring, and 13-year-old Katie Vaughn finds herself walking in the moonlight with Jack Adams in Bluffton South Carolina, the guy she has a major crush on, and the night Katie gets her first kiss. Jack says, “So, you’re my girlfriend now, right?” Katie’s reply was, “Of course.” Jack then proceeds to tell Katie about how his mother believes that anything you promise on the first day of spring is a promise you can never break.” After Jack leaves and before goes home, Katie also speaks these words, “Today I said my first curse word. Today was my first kiss. Today is the first day of spring, and now my first promise: I vow to never ever love anyone but Jonathan Gray Adams – My Jack.”The year is now 2010 and little did Katie, who now goes by Kate, know the effect those works she spoke so many year ago would have on her life, and the journey she would go through between then and now. She is 35 years old now and is living in South Carolina again. She has opened her own boutique and is dating Rowan, a great guy she has been with now for four years, yet the thing that excites her the most is the letter she receives once a year on the first day of spring. This yearly letter is from Jack Adams, the man that whether she wants to admit it or not, she still loves…the man no one else ever lives up to……the man she made that promise to so many years ago. Kate and Rowan are meeting Rowan’s parents, and Kate accidentally finds a diamond ring in his Rowan’s night stand. She kind of freaks out, and ultimately realizes that she must talk to Jack and find closure before she can move on. She hasn't seen Jack for 13 years, and it was 13 years ago on that first day of spring that Katie’s life changed forever. And Then I Found You is Katie and Jack’s story. It is one of first love and kisses, promises of forever, loss, heartache, and finding love again. The story is fictional but based on true-life events that occurred in the author’s little sister’s life, and I would definitely suggest visiting Patti Callahan Henry’s website and reading about the story behind the story. I loved the characters, and the story itself is heartwarming and heart wrenching, and is wonderfully and beautifully written. The romance is great, and this book is one you won’t want to miss, especially if you are a contemporary romance fan. And Then I Found You is something that will touch your heart in a unique way and I definitely recommend it.
    • 5/5
      Once you begin reading "and then I found you," you won't be able to put it down. I read it until 3 am, and I would have kept on reading it if I hadn't gotten to the end. This is just one of those books. I don't want to give too much away, but I will say that the story will break your heart and then help you put it back together again.

      This is a marvelous, beautiful book. The writing is stunning!
      I was given this book by GoodReads.