Audio Book Description:
Inside the chuch of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a mysterious chair carved with mermaidsand dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. when Jessie is summoned home to theisland to cope with her mother`s inexplicable act of violence, she is living with herhusband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but she finds herself drawnto Brother Thomas, a monk who is soon totake his final vows. Is the power of the mermaid chair only a myth? What transpires will unlockthe roots of her mother`s tormented past and it will allow Jessie to make a marriage unto herself. TheMermaid Chair is a vividlyimagined novel about the passions of thespirit and the ecstacies of the body. Itilluminates theawakening of a woman to her owndeepest self with a brillianceand power that only a writer ofKidd`s ability could conjure.