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Into the Free

By: Julie Cantrell
Narrated by: Laura Jennings
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Saturated in Southern ambiance and written in the vein of other literary best sellers like Kathryn Stockett’s The Help and Tom Franklin’s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, Julie Cantrell’s New York Times best-selling Into the Free that will sweep you away long after the novel ends.

In Depression-era Mississippi, Millie Reynolds longs to escape the madness that marks her world. With an abusive father and a “nothing mama,” she struggles to find a place where she really belongs.

For answers, Millie turns to the Gypsies who caravan through town each spring. The travelers lead Millie to a key that unlocks generations of shocking family secrets. When tragedy strikes, the mysterious contents of the box give Millie the tools she needs to break her family’s longstanding cycle of madness and abuse. Through it all, Millie experiences the thrill of first love while fighting to trust the God she believes has abandoned her. With the power of forgiveness, can she finally make her way into the free?

Millie is just a girl. But she’s the only one strong enough to break the family cycle.

“Gritty, compelling, and beautifully told, Into the Free will take you into a coming-of-age story filled with heartrending hardship and luminous hope. Julie Cantrell is a writer to watch!” (Lisa Wingate, New York Times best-selling author of Before We Were Yours)

“Readers will fall in love with Millie Reynolds, girl with one eye on the heavens and the other on the savages that occupy our world...a searing tale of heartache, faith, forgiveness, and doubt set amid gypsies, angels, addicts, asylums, roughnecks, and rodeo hands.” (Neil White, author of In the Sanctuary of Outcasts)

“A lyrical, moving, haunting, wise, brutal, warmhearted, and ultimately freeing and inspiring coming-of-age tale told with poetic honesty...Into the Free swept me up and swept me along.” (Jennifer Niven, best-selling author of The Ice Master)

  • New York Times best seller
  • Can be read as a stand-alone novel, although the story continues in When Mountains Move
  • Book length: approximately 90,000 words
  • Includes a reader’s guide, author interview, and discussion questions for book clubs
©2015 Julie Cantrell (P)2020 Thomas Nelson
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I enjoyed this story from the first chapter. Also, the narrator is awesome! I felt like I was right there as the story was being told.

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Great book!

Loved this book! Milly was an easy character to love. Easy book to listen to.

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Great story!

I really enjoyed listening to this one! I would definitely recommend it. It kept my attention and made me want to keep listening.

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Excellent!

This book is thought provoking and really made me care about the girl and hoped for a promising future for her.

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Good Book

I liked this Book, but I read and liked, When Mountains Move, better. It did fill in alot of blanks.

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Hope Rises From Despair & Tragedy

One may never know the shoes that others walk in. This is a story of redemption from the gutter most of life‘s most horrible tragedies. It reminds us all to be kind to others because we never know where they’ve been in life. Kindness and love go a long ways. Forgiveness transports the worst that life has dealt out of the miry mud, to a-place of hope, peace, & beauty that liberates ones soul to live free from pain & sorrow and enjoy abundant life. What a beautiful story.

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unforgettable

after adjusting nthe spped for the narrator, I leaned backed and could barely stop listening. Horrifying in parts, sweet and humourous in others, following Millie through tumultuous life, all you find yourself wanting to do is see her succeed. into the free will not leave you for sometime. It will remind you that regardless if it hardships in life, we don't give up. You just never know what waits around the corner. Poetically written, your won't be disappointed, tho you may have to put it down at times or skip over a few parts. A new author to follow!

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Really depressing

This author is super talented. I wish she would use her skills to create a less depressing story. Every time I thought the story is just about to turn hopeful the main character has to deal with another form of abuse. I have well over 500 books in my audible library and this ranks in the five most depressing (along with books about the holocaust). I would give this author another chance if I read reviews that conveyed to me that she has written an uplifting book.

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Excellent Book! One of my favorites!

Fell in love with Millie Reynolds' character. The story line was interesting and very enjoyable.

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WOW

What a BEAUTIFUL story of truth and awakening to the real world and how God sends us what we need when we ask and are ready to trust in him. I love her common theme to enlighten us on our common threads that we are no greater nor less than all our relations. Her beautiful yet raw reminders and repeated history all over the world, in our county, in our town and families as well as our churches and spiritual practices of mans inhumanity to man trying to separate us. I hope we see more movies and books going this rout and cant wait to re-listen to and get my girls and myself a copy of her book Perennials. Thank you.

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