Hourglass

by Elizabeth Gage

Book Overview

Kate is among three adolescent friends, brought together by tragedy, who vow to reunite in 15 years. After becoming a successful writer in New York, Kate returns to the prescribed meeting spot in the town of her youth and meets an unexpected destiny with her friends.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551665468
• ISBN13: 9781551665467
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Mira Books
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

The Hourglass

The Hourglass by Elizabeth Gage is a haunting novel of love, friendship, and a fateful promise. As children the three friends made a promise to meet in fifteen years on an abandoned golf course. Kate goes to the meeting place and what she finds there will change the rest of her life. This promise should not have been kept but it was and the story was interesting look at the twist and turns that life brought to Kate, Lily, and Jordan. The love that they shared as children lasted them a lifetime through all of the up and downs of their lives.The simple things that they did for each other like when they first meet Jordan at a funeral they all went for a long walk together and that day was the day there "threeness" started. For a few years their whole lives where each other.They would spend hours out on the golf course just sitting and talking. When Jordan left for school the three of them stayed close together even though they are far apart.This book was very interesting because the story took turns and twists, and it would keep you on your toes by going back in forth between the future and the past.

A Truly Real Look At Life

When Kate, an orphan comes to live with her adventurous friend Lily France, she feels at last like she belongs to a family. Although Lily and Kate also belong to another family, that one between the two girls and a boy named Jordan Brady. When they all are last together in their childhood this is the night before Jordan is sent to boarding school. During this night they all make a promise to meet again in 15 years in the exact spot. When they are all adults, Kate and Lily lose touch with Jordan. He is a very succesful business man, featured in magazines constantly. Lily is a housewife in her hometown raising 2 little girls. Kate moves to New York City to pursue a career as a journalist. When the 15 years finally passes, Kate returns. She meets Jordan there and even though she dosen't know it, Lily is there watching from the sidelines, ironically the way Kate was the night before the 3 were seperated. The next day the 3 continue with their lives as though the night never happened, until Kate learns she is pregnant with Jordan's child. She doesen't contact Jordan. When Nick (Kate and Jordans baby) is 4 years old, Kate and Jordan run into each other at Central Park. The both know what happenned that night. Jordan asks Kate to move in with him. This is after she had done a 50,000 word article on him and he had a fiance. Kate agreed. THey were very happy for a long time. But Kate always felt that Jordan had always loved Lily. Later Nick contracts lukemia and eventually after a long battle passes away. (ironically the three meet at a funeral of a classmate who died of lukemia) Jordan moves out nad continues his life and so does kate but only to find out that Jordan loved her the most all along.I enjoyed this book because it gave a real life look at life, everything didn't work out just as planned, at that made it an interesting story with plenty of twists and turns

A Touching Quick Read

On the eve of their separation three lonely adolescents, two girls and a boy who have been friends since childhood, make a promise to meet at their favorite spot in fifteen years. Two of the three keep their promise with surprising, unpredictable results. Elizabeth Gage only gets better and better!