Down Where My Love Lives - Charles Martin

Down Where My Love Lives

By Charles Martin

  • Release Date: 2011-09-11
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
Score: 4.5
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From 71 Ratings

Description

Down Where My Love Lives is a bittersweet yet triumphant love story—a tale of one man's journey through the darkness of despair and into the light of hope. Together in one volume, read Dylan and Maggie’s love story in bestselling author Charles Martin’s debut novel and its sequel.

The Dead Don’t Dance: In a sleepy rural town in South Carolina, Dylan and Maggie Styles are a young couple in love, preparing eagerly for the birth of their first son. But events take a tragic turn in the delivery room, and their child is delivered stillborn. When Maggie hemorrhages and slips into a coma, Dylan slips into what can only be described as a walking coma, holding vigil at his beloved wife’s bedside.

Usually tough and self-reliant, an outdoorsman and a farmer, Dylan finds that everything he has known is suddenly thrown into doubt. Refusing to give up on Maggie’s recovery, a devastated Dylan takes a job as an English professor in order to pay for Maggie’s medical bills. Dylan connects with his students despite himself and offers hope to others amid his own disappointment and grief. As Dylan waits for some change in Maggie's condition, he reflects on his life and hers.

Through friends and grace-filled moments of insight, Dylan slowly begins to heal, but it will take a second tragedy—and an anxious period of wrestling with God—to truly awaken him from his stupor and open him up to a new life.

Maggie: Life began again for Dylan Styles when his beloved wife Maggie awoke from a coma. A coma brought on by the intense two-day labor that resulted in heartbreaking loss. In this poignant love story that is redolent with Southern atmosphere, Dylan and Maggie must come to terms with their past before they can embrace their future.
Emotive Southern fictionNew York Times bestselling author Charles Martin’s debut novel and sequel in one volumeContains the complete Awakening Series: The Dead Don’t Dance and Maggie

Reviews

  • Down Where My Love Lives

    5
    By Loved the book!!
    Excellent Book, The best I’ve read in a long time! Sad, and Spiritual, and Thanking God for all he does.
  • Magnificent

    5
    By amycubs7
    This was a reread for me, several years after the first. Charles Martin has a gift. The emotion in these books is incredible, peppered with humor and drama. Although he is listed as Christian fiction, the God portion of the book is beautifully understated and not thrown in the face of the reader. Highly recommended to anyone who likes romance, drama, humor, and anyone who appreciates a well written book.
  • Charles Martin is now my favorite author!!

    5
    By Z o m b i e the 1st
    Just finished my 2nd Charles Martin novel(Maggie) and it was fantastic! Look forward to reading others.
  • Favorite!

    5
    By Ms. B.B
    This is by far one of my favorite books! I've never been one to re read books but I've read this book again two times! You won't be disappointed!