Title: The Last Storyteller

Author: Diane Noble

Publisher: WaterBrook Press

ISBN: 1-57856-399-2

Genre: Inspirational/Women/Fiction

 

Taite Abbot is a free spirit and is determined that no one and nothing is going to tame her and change her lifestyle. She never plans on falling in love with Sam, an extremely intelligent medical student studying to be a research doctor. Then she finds out she is pregnant, but before she can tell Sam, he tells her the good news that he has been accepted to attend a very prestigious college.  

 

Taite decides to get an abortion without telling Sam. But first, she wants to spend some time with Naini, the grandmother who raised her. Taite has such good memories of her grandmother’s place near the ocean. When she finds out that her grandmother is facing some challenges of her own, Taite is dismayed that Naini won’t explain what is going on. She wants to stay and help Naini, because she knows that her mother Isabel will not be there for Naini.

 

Her grandmother has a gift for storytelling and wants to pass the gift on to Taite before it is too late. As both of women struggle to maintain their own secrets, they have to come to grips with the realities of life and the mistakes they have made, which brought them to this place together. Naini has a deep abiding faith and prays daily for Taite, Sam, and Isabel, but even with help from God, can they ever be the family they were meant to be?

 

The Last Storyteller is well written, with lots of drama and intrigue. It is a story about how love can overcome the stumbling blocks that wrong choices and time have formed. I highly recommend this book; I could hardly put it down. The characters are well defined. They are strong but not uncaring, the kind of people we might encounter in our lives everyday. Even with their obvious flaws, I could sit down with them and have a cup of tea, listen to a story, and tell them one of my own. The Last Storyteller would make a great movie. A section is included in the back for book club discussion.