The Stars Are Not Yet Bells

Elle and her husband Simon were sent to Lyra Island by Simon’s wealthy father to explore the mysterious blue lights around the island and discover if they really harbor minerals with mystical properties. Decades later, Elle’s mind is no longer her own and she can’t tell the difference between the past and the present; her memories are jumbled. She starts to fixate on the one thing in her life that got away: her true love, Gabriel. But where has he gone? Why is Elle’s life in such disarray and what has happened to Simon’s family’s business? What are the blue lights? Beautiful, heartbreaking prose takes listeners deep inside Elle’s mind as she tries to piece together the timeline of her tumultuous life. This vivid and lyrical novel exploring the mind of a woman suffering from dementia in her old age is haunting and seductive. Narrator Hillary Huber does a perfect execution of Elle’s disarrayed thoughts and narrative.