--- product_id: 47043056 title: "The Memory of Butterflies: A Novel" price: "R459" currency: ZAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/47043056-the-memory-of-butterflies-a-novel store_origin: ZA region: South Africa --- # The Memory of Butterflies: A Novel **Price:** R459 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Memory of Butterflies: A Novel - **How much does it cost?** R459 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.za](https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/47043056-the-memory-of-butterflies-a-novel) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description To keep a devastating family secret from being revealed, a young mother’s desperate lies could end up destroying everything, and everyone, she loves. The Memory of Butterflies is a poignant story of family and forgiveness―of knowing when to let go and when to hold each other close. Hannah Cooper’s daughter is leaving for college soon. The change is bittersweet. A single mother since the age of eighteen, Hannah isn’t eager to confront the pain of being alone, but she’s determined not to let her own hang-ups keep Ellen from the future she deserves. As Ellen’s high school graduation approaches, Hannah decides it’s time to return to her roots in Cooper’s Hollow along Virginia’s beautiful and rustic Cub Creek. With the help of longtime friend Roger Westray, Hannah devotes her energies to building a new house on the site of the old family home, destroyed in a fire more than a decade ago. But Hannah’s entire adult life has revolved around one very big secret. And her new beginning comes with unanticipated risks that will cost her far more than she could have imagined―perhaps more than she can survive. When a confrontation forces Hannah to expose her secret, the truth may destroy her beloved daughter. Hannah is prepared to sacrifice everything to protect her family, but can their lives and their bond withstand the seismic shift that’s coming? Review: very good, must read novel.... - This is a stand alone novel with a HEA. It is not really a romance but it is a story about love. It is hard to write this review because there is just so much to this novel but to write it all would spoil the story. So, that being said, the story is set in a small town but the heroine lives with her grandmother is a very small backwoods cabin in a remote country area. The grandmother is very old and sick and the young heroine is a teen in high school. They very much keep to themselves and have very little of material wealth but they are very close and devoted to one another. The young girl gets invited to a cook-out with a very popular boy. Of course she is excited that he has shown her attention and she has no experience with young boys or their intentions and immature thoughts and ways. He encourages her to drink and she does and she soon discovers she is pregnant. Her grandmother looks on the child as a gift from God but feels she should tell the young boy. She tries but his family wants nothing to do with "her" problem and he leaves town for college. They live in a remote area with the only visitors being a visiting nurse and the young man that delivers their groceries. She manages to have the child with no one really knowing. The visiting nurse records the birth with the mother listed and the father unknown. She refuses to name the father. The story gets very interesting from this point. As I said, there is too much to write without spoiling the story. Your heart goes out to this 18 year old mother, no experience with life, etc. except what her grandparents taught her. They do not go into town and do not mix socially, so it is just the three of them until the grandfather dies and then the grandmother's health starts to decline. I kept thinking of the story NELL while reading this one. The young girl did go to high school and she is not literate by any means but there is no TV, cell phones, etc. in their life. They live a very simple lifestyle so she is shielded from most modern things and thinking. This is a story that holds you spellbound. it is hard to put the book down. Secrets are slowly revealed and you can see life repeating itself through the generations. The heroine is the main character and she tells her story. Life, death, sadness, joy, it is all here. It is a very good story and I definitely recommend it. It is appropriate for any age. On the sexy scale it is a zero. There are no sexy scenes, it is referred to, etc. but you get no details. It is a good lesson in what happens when What a web of lies we weave when first we practice to deceive!!! Good read. SPOILER--I really liked the heroine and felt empathy for her until she seemed to have no remorse about robbing a young man of his daughter. In the end it tried to show it was for her best interest but I'm sorry. She loved the child beyond reason and yet she didn't think he would have felt the same? She had no compassion for him. Her "I'm sorry" didn't cut it for me. Her reasons for keeping quiet were selfish and self-serving. I felt bad for Ellen, her mother wanted her to go out and live her life - as long as she lived it the way she wanted her to - she was definitely a "smother-mother". That got a little annoying!! I was not paid for this review. I am not an author nor do I know one. I am not kin to this writer. I am a reader and this is my opinion, nothing more, nothing less. 9/6/17 Review: Secrets are bound to be revealed - The Memory of Butterflies by Grace Greene was a great book. Secrets can dig you into a hole you can’t get out of. Hannah has covered up secrets for too long and these secrets are revealed as you learn her history. You wonder if put in the same position, would you have handled it differently? And how can she tell her daughter the truth? This was an emotional book and I enjoyed the characters and how the story unfolded. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #2,744,653 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4,024 in Mothers & Children Fiction #14,175 in Psychological Fiction (Books) #16,908 in Women's Domestic Life Fiction | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 11,217 Reviews | ## Images ![The Memory of Butterflies: A Novel - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61W844QzoJL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ very good, must read novel.... *by G***N on September 6, 2017* This is a stand alone novel with a HEA. It is not really a romance but it is a story about love. It is hard to write this review because there is just so much to this novel but to write it all would spoil the story. So, that being said, the story is set in a small town but the heroine lives with her grandmother is a very small backwoods cabin in a remote country area. The grandmother is very old and sick and the young heroine is a teen in high school. They very much keep to themselves and have very little of material wealth but they are very close and devoted to one another. The young girl gets invited to a cook-out with a very popular boy. Of course she is excited that he has shown her attention and she has no experience with young boys or their intentions and immature thoughts and ways. He encourages her to drink and she does and she soon discovers she is pregnant. Her grandmother looks on the child as a gift from God but feels she should tell the young boy. She tries but his family wants nothing to do with "her" problem and he leaves town for college. They live in a remote area with the only visitors being a visiting nurse and the young man that delivers their groceries. She manages to have the child with no one really knowing. The visiting nurse records the birth with the mother listed and the father unknown. She refuses to name the father. The story gets very interesting from this point. As I said, there is too much to write without spoiling the story. Your heart goes out to this 18 year old mother, no experience with life, etc. except what her grandparents taught her. They do not go into town and do not mix socially, so it is just the three of them until the grandfather dies and then the grandmother's health starts to decline. I kept thinking of the story NELL while reading this one. The young girl did go to high school and she is not literate by any means but there is no TV, cell phones, etc. in their life. They live a very simple lifestyle so she is shielded from most modern things and thinking. This is a story that holds you spellbound. it is hard to put the book down. Secrets are slowly revealed and you can see life repeating itself through the generations. The heroine is the main character and she tells her story. Life, death, sadness, joy, it is all here. It is a very good story and I definitely recommend it. It is appropriate for any age. On the sexy scale it is a zero. There are no sexy scenes, it is referred to, etc. but you get no details. It is a good lesson in what happens when What a web of lies we weave when first we practice to deceive!!! Good read. SPOILER--I really liked the heroine and felt empathy for her until she seemed to have no remorse about robbing a young man of his daughter. In the end it tried to show it was for her best interest but I'm sorry. She loved the child beyond reason and yet she didn't think he would have felt the same? She had no compassion for him. Her "I'm sorry" didn't cut it for me. Her reasons for keeping quiet were selfish and self-serving. I felt bad for Ellen, her mother wanted her to go out and live her life - as long as she lived it the way she wanted her to - she was definitely a "smother-mother". That got a little annoying!! I was not paid for this review. I am not an author nor do I know one. I am not kin to this writer. I am a reader and this is my opinion, nothing more, nothing less. 9/6/17 ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Secrets are bound to be revealed *by K***R on January 26, 2020* The Memory of Butterflies by Grace Greene was a great book. Secrets can dig you into a hole you can’t get out of. Hannah has covered up secrets for too long and these secrets are revealed as you learn her history. You wonder if put in the same position, would you have handled it differently? And how can she tell her daughter the truth? This was an emotional book and I enjoyed the characters and how the story unfolded. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Couldn't put it down *by C***L on October 12, 2017* I was intrigued from the moment I first read the following on page 1: "...including the memory of how I lost my Ellen seventeen years ago, then found her again." In The Memory of Butterflies, Greene explores several themes, the strongest of which is love, specifically a mother's love. In Hannah's story, it is clear that this is a love that is boundless and not reserved solely for those grown inside our womb. The story alternates between present day and flashing back to the past from Hannah's teenage years and moving forward to the present. The story is not a new one (young girl unexpectedly pregnant and left to raise a baby without help from the father) but it is engrossing. Hannah is such a strong and independent female character that one can't hardly believe she fell for the dashing and manipulative teen boy while also knowing that without a doubt she will be a wonderful and dedicated mother who will rise to the struggles of motherhood (single or not). In short, Hannah's story is so engrossing that I couldn't put the book down. I had to finally concede defeat with about 80% left as I was bleary eyed and knew that I didn't want to miss any of the conclusion. I was awake before dawn and reaching for the book to find out what happens and what consequences Hannah will face for the decisions she made as a young mother. And oh my - those decisions.....I can so easily see how Hannah chose what she did and I do not fault one bit. Not one. And it's a good thing the really important people in her life don't fault her either. It's summed up so beautifully here: "We all make mistakes, right? Some we can take back. Some we can’t.” Or wouldn’t even if we could, I added silently." (pg 172) Oh Hannah, what you did - loving a child, wholly and completely and unselfishly - could never be a mistake. I am so thankful to Amazon Publishing for offering this as a giveaway and grateful to have been a winner! 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