Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed

About this film

Librivox recording of Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed by Edna Ferber. Read by Lee Ann Howlett. Dawn O’Hara, the Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferber’s first novel. Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Michigan on doctor’s orders. Years of living in boarding-houses and working to pay for the care of her brilliant but mentally ill husband, Peter Orme, have taken their toll. At twenty-eight, Dawn feels like an old woman with no future. But, the loving care of her sister Norah and her family along with the attentions of the handsome German doctor, Ernst Von Gerhard, slowly bring Dawn back to life. With Dr. Von Gerhard’s help, she obtains a newspaper job in Milwaukee and begins a year of new adventures among new people. However, the specter of her husband living in a mental hospital is always present and Dawn fears she may never be free to love again. (Summary by Lee Ann Howlett) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org . Download M4B (120MB)

Directors & creators

Edna Ferber

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks; fiction

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