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Ever wondered what happened to your first love? Imagine bumping into them 12 years later and realizing you still fancy them rotten. That's exactly what happens to Dig Ryan when he sees Delilah again. Now imagine you're Nadine. You and Dig have been best friends for 15 years. And you've finally realized that you're in love with him. So when Delilah - who was always your nemesis - returns, you're mad with jealousy and can't help behaving childishly....
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Performance is awful.
- By Amazon Customer on 03-25-20
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One-Hit Wonder
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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Shy and gawky, Ana has always daydreamed about living the life of her exotic half-sister Bee, a pop singer who had a number one hit single before she inexplicably vanished from the celebrity scene. When Bee turns up dead, Ana is dispatched to the big city to clear out her apartment. Instantly seduced by the second-hand glamour of Bee's baubles, bangles, and bottles of Pierre-Jouet, Ana takes up with Bee's wild club-hopping cronies.
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Important fact: Earlier books are NOT mysteries!
- By Prime Shopper on 08-08-21
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Roommates Wanted
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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1990. Toby Dobbs received a big Victorian house with too many bedrooms to count as a wedding present from his father, but his marriage is over within a month. Very alone, and very lonely, Toby posts an advertisement seeking the Unexpectedly Alone to become his roommates. Fifteen years later, the wayward souls he takes in are still living with him, with no intention of leaving. 2004. Toby Dobbs has met Leah Pilgrim from across the road, and they're falling in love.
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I am in love with this book!
- By Lor Knox on 10-25-19
By: Lisa Jewell
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Vince and Joy
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish, Leighton Pugh
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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From adolescent snogging to apartment shares, relationships, career crises, and children, Vince and Joy is the unforgettable story of two lives lived separately but forever entwined. Back in the '80s, teenagers Vince and Joy met, fell desperately in love, parted, and never quite said goodbye. Now, nearly 20 years later, they’ve both begun to ask themselves if that long-ago romance was the enduring love they’ve been searching for....
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Most frustrating and disappointing story
- By Kristyn Rose on 05-28-20
By: Lisa Jewell
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Ralph's Party
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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Ralph and Smith are flatmates and best mates - until, that is, the gorgeous Jemima moves in. Then suddenly, they're bickering about a lot more than who drank the last beer. Of course, Jem knows that one of them is the man for her - but is it Ralph or Smith? Upstairs, Karl and Siobhan have been happily unmarried for 15 years - until, that is, Cheri moves into the flat above theirs. Cheri's got her eye on Karl and doesn't see why she should let a little thing like his girlfriend stand in her way.... Sooner or later, it’s all got to come to a head.
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lisa newell’s debut novel
- By Zoe on 04-02-20
By: Lisa Jewell
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After the Party
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
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In this irresistible novel from the author of Then She Was Gone, Jem and Ralph discover the power of starting over after 11 years together have left them drifting apart.
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Bitter, Anti-Christian Stereotyping Detracts.
- By Gretchen on 11-23-18
By: Lisa Jewell
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Thirtynothing
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
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Ever wondered what happened to your first love? Imagine bumping into them 12 years later and realizing you still fancy them rotten. That's exactly what happens to Dig Ryan when he sees Delilah again. Now imagine you're Nadine. You and Dig have been best friends for 15 years. And you've finally realized that you're in love with him. So when Delilah - who was always your nemesis - returns, you're mad with jealousy and can't help behaving childishly....
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Performance is awful.
- By Amazon Customer on 03-25-20
By: Lisa Jewell
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One-Hit Wonder
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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Shy and gawky, Ana has always daydreamed about living the life of her exotic half-sister Bee, a pop singer who had a number one hit single before she inexplicably vanished from the celebrity scene. When Bee turns up dead, Ana is dispatched to the big city to clear out her apartment. Instantly seduced by the second-hand glamour of Bee's baubles, bangles, and bottles of Pierre-Jouet, Ana takes up with Bee's wild club-hopping cronies.
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Important fact: Earlier books are NOT mysteries!
- By Prime Shopper on 08-08-21
By: Lisa Jewell
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Roommates Wanted
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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1990. Toby Dobbs received a big Victorian house with too many bedrooms to count as a wedding present from his father, but his marriage is over within a month. Very alone, and very lonely, Toby posts an advertisement seeking the Unexpectedly Alone to become his roommates. Fifteen years later, the wayward souls he takes in are still living with him, with no intention of leaving. 2004. Toby Dobbs has met Leah Pilgrim from across the road, and they're falling in love.
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I am in love with this book!
- By Lor Knox on 10-25-19
By: Lisa Jewell
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Vince and Joy
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish, Leighton Pugh
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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From adolescent snogging to apartment shares, relationships, career crises, and children, Vince and Joy is the unforgettable story of two lives lived separately but forever entwined. Back in the '80s, teenagers Vince and Joy met, fell desperately in love, parted, and never quite said goodbye. Now, nearly 20 years later, they’ve both begun to ask themselves if that long-ago romance was the enduring love they’ve been searching for....
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Most frustrating and disappointing story
- By Kristyn Rose on 05-28-20
By: Lisa Jewell
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Ralph's Party
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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Ralph and Smith are flatmates and best mates - until, that is, the gorgeous Jemima moves in. Then suddenly, they're bickering about a lot more than who drank the last beer. Of course, Jem knows that one of them is the man for her - but is it Ralph or Smith? Upstairs, Karl and Siobhan have been happily unmarried for 15 years - until, that is, Cheri moves into the flat above theirs. Cheri's got her eye on Karl and doesn't see why she should let a little thing like his girlfriend stand in her way.... Sooner or later, it’s all got to come to a head.
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lisa newell’s debut novel
- By Zoe on 04-02-20
By: Lisa Jewell
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After the Party
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
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In this irresistible novel from the author of Then She Was Gone, Jem and Ralph discover the power of starting over after 11 years together have left them drifting apart.
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Bitter, Anti-Christian Stereotyping Detracts.
- By Gretchen on 11-23-18
By: Lisa Jewell
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The Making of Us
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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Lydia, Dean, and Robyn live very different lives, but each of them, independently, has always felt that something was missing. What they don't know is that a letter is about to arrive that will turn their lives upside down. It's a letter containing a secret - one that will bind them together and show them what love and family and friendship really mean.
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Extraordinary Stories
- By JimKnott on 08-16-18
By: Lisa Jewell
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The Daydream Cabin
- By: Carolyn Brown
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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Substitute counselor for wayward teens isn’t how public-school teacher Jayden Bennett planned to spend her summer vacation. However reluctant, she’s hiking up her jeans and heading for remote Piney Wood Academy in north Texas. Two months. Seven days a week. Few amenities. And three troubled girls daring Jayden to make a difference. She understands what she’s up against. She has her own burdens to bear. Jayden’s not in it alone. The devoted elderly couple who run Piney Wood trusts in Jayden’s tough-love approach to get the job done. So does drill instructor Elijah Thomas.
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disappointed
- By MAB on 12-14-20
By: Carolyn Brown
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The Girls in the Garden
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Imagine that you live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people's houses. You've known your neighbors for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? On a midsummer night, as a festive neighborhood party is taking place, preteen Pip discovers her 13-year-old sister Grace lying unconscious and bloody in a hidden corner of a lush rose garden. What really happened to her?
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Delightful
- By Julie on 11-03-17
By: Lisa Jewell
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Before I Met You
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
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After her grandmother Arlette's death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends, summer jobs in order to care for Arlette. Now she's ready for whatever life throws at her, and, since the will included a beneficiary unknown to her who lives in the city, she heads there to find the mysterious woman. In 1920s London, Arlette is starting her new life in a time of postwar change. Beautiful and charismatic, she's drawn into a hedonistic world, but then tragedy strikes, and she flees back to her childhood home....
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Awful
- By cristina on 08-13-18
By: Lisa Jewell
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Girl Gone Mad
- A Novel
- By: Avery Bishop
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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Emily Bennett works as a therapist in Pennsylvania, helping children overcome their troubled pasts—even as she struggles to forget her own. Once upon a time, Emily was part of a middle school clique called the Harpies—six popular girls who bullied the new girl to her breaking point. The Harpies took a blood oath: never tell a soul what they did to Grace Farmer. Now, fourteen years later, it seems karma has caught up to them when one member of that vicious circle commits suicide.
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Absolutely Awful
- By Wendi on 09-16-20
By: Avery Bishop
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The Truth About Melody Browne
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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When she was 9 years old, Melody Browne's house burned down, and it took all of her childhood memories with it. Now she's a single mother of a teenage boy living in Central London. She hasn't seen her parents since she left home at 15, but she doesn't mind. She's better off on her own. She works as a dinner lady at her son's school and has no idea where her humdrum life is heading. But one summer's night, a hypnotist inadvertently unlocks memories of her childhood, and her whole life is turned upside down.
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So much potential.....what a letdown!!!
- By Cheryl Coen on 11-15-20
By: Lisa Jewell
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Surfside Sisters
- A Novel
- By: Nancy Thayer
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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A Nantucket woman returns home to find that reunions aren’t always simple, in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author. Keely Green always dreamed of leaving the beautiful shores of Nantucket to become a writer. Now she’s a bestselling novelist living in New York City, attending glamorous cocktail parties, mingling with the literary elite, and dating a charming pediatric surgeon. But a moment of clarity strikes when Keely’s boyfriend suddenly wants to settle down and her editor rejects her latest novel.
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Too fluffy!
- By LoRe Bolling on 07-10-19
By: Nancy Thayer
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Invisible Girl
- A Novel
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Donna Banya, Katherine Kelly, Connor Swindells
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Owen Pick’s life is falling apart. In his 30s and living in his aunt’s spare bedroom, he has just been suspended from his job as a teacher after accusations of sexual misconduct - accusations he strongly denies. Searching for professional advice online, he is inadvertently sucked into the dark world of incel forums, where he meets a charismatic and mysterious figure. Across the street from Owen lives the Fours family, headed by mom Cate, a physiotherapist, and dad Roan, a child psychologist. But the Fours family have a bad feeling about their neighbor Owen.
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Hate it ended!! Lisa Jewell, you did it again!!!!
- By Lisa Lawson on 10-15-20
By: Lisa Jewell
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Flawless
- New York Confidential, Book 1
- By: Heather Graham
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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It's a pub in lower Manhattan, run by the Finnegan family for generations and now owned by Kieran and her three brothers. Kieran Finnegan, who still works there whenever she can, has become a criminal psychologist - a fitting reaction, perhaps, to her less-than-lawful past. Meanwhile, New York's Diamond District has been hit by a rash of thefts. No one's been killed - until now.
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On the rocks
- By green ice cream garden on 04-15-16
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The House We Grew Up In
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Karina Fernandez
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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Years after an Easter weekend tragedy devastates a family, they return to the house they grew up in to unearth the many secrets hidden within the nooks and crannies of home.
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Constant Fat Shaming
- By Burke Downer on 07-11-20
By: Lisa Jewell
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The Homewreckers
- A Novel
- By: Mary Kay Andrews
- Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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Hattie Kavanaugh went to work restoring homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen, married the boss’s son at twenty, and became a widow at twenty-five. Now, she’s passionate about her work, but that’s the only passion in her life. “Never love something that can’t love you back,” is advice her father-in-law gives her, but Hattie doesn’t follow it and falls head-over-heels for a money pit of a house. She’s determined to make it work, but disaster after disaster occurs, and Hattie’s dream might cost Kavanaugh & Son their livelihood.
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Saving Savannah or Homewreckers!
- By Jan M on 05-04-22
By: Mary Kay Andrews
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Watching You
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England. It’s the sort of place where doctors and lawyers and old-money academics live. It’s not the sort of place where people get stabbed in the back 30 times with a kitchen knife in their own homes. Someone must have seen something. Newlywed Joey Mullen, for example, recently returned from four years of working in Ibiza. She and her husband, Alfie, are eager to find a place of their own in her hometown. But Joey finds herself distracted by the man next door, Tom Fitzwilliam.
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Soooo good!!
- By amanda fallis on 02-06-19
By: Lisa Jewell
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- Karla porras
- 06-21-20
Such a great book
I loved these characters! I didn’t want this book to end!! A must read! Easy to read. A feel good book!
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- Roxy
- 08-16-22
Surprisingly good
So, honestly, I’ve read a lot of Lisa Jewell- that is, I read two books and have listened to audiobooks since (busy busy). Well, I was only reading thrillers and mysteries. So I saw that Helen Duff narrated this book (best narrater ever, seriously) and I just bought it without even looking at it.
Then I found out 1/4 through that this is in fact, not a thriller or mystery. I continued listening anyway because, as I mentioned above, Helen Duff is amazing, and I paid a lot of money for this audiobook.
In the end, I enjoyed this story. I don’t even like this type of genre… idk drama/family fiction or whatever it is. But I thought this book had some solid storylines that were both believable and interesting. I cannot say that this turned me on to this type of genre, but I can say I’d recommend this to anyone.
Helen Duff is phenomenal, and she is the only narrater that can just switch between several characters without the book specifying who is talking and I’d know which characters they are. She has a different voice for everyone, and it matches exactly who I’d imagine from the character description. I may just buy anything she narrates and continue to ignore the genre now.
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- Jennifer Blankenship
- 06-21-22
Lacking
I’ve read several of Lisa Jewell’s books and have enjoyed them until this one. I didn’t feel like this book ever truly tied the story together.
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- LadyDeedlyDee
- 03-18-22
Great story
I loved this book! such a welcome departure from the psycho female dumb motive revenge porn I've unwittingly been listening to of late. This is a heartwarming tale about the complexities of family, friendship, relationships, and siblings. I found it touching, at times amusing, at times angering. The narrator did a great job bringing the characters to life. I hated the oldest brother throughout, I found him to be a selfish, insufferable know it all, but I loved the dynamics between the brothers. Well worth a listen.
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- Carol T
- 01-15-23
A friend of the family
I enjoyed this book very much. It wasn’t at all what I expected and was pleasantly surprised. Every time I listen to a Lisa Jewell book I wonder why I don’t listen to her more often. I’ll be on the hunt for another very soon though.
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- Kevin & Angie
- 10-14-23
Love
I absolutely love Lisa Jewell! This book made me cry, feel loved, feel angry and it was overall a “page turner”.
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- Mamaw
- 03-28-23
Mary Poppins?
Have about 10 Lisa Jewel books, some print and some audio. Love her work. This book however had such a simple premise, making it hard to really get involved. All I could think about though the story was Mary Poppins for adults. If you’re looking for a light read this is perfect, otherwise y would choose a different book by the same author.
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- Amy F.M.
- 05-10-23
Glad it was on sale.
I bought this book because it was on sale and a Lisa Jewell book. I enjoyed the previous three, but this one not very much. I had to urge myself to finish it, and although the last hour was interesting, not great, but interesting...the rest was just rather boring. I really did not like most of the characters nor care about them. The narrator was ok. I think it would have been better with both a male and female narrator as Helen Duff had too many people to voice. Don't know what else to say other than I think there are many other books waiting to be heard.
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- Moviegoer
- 12-14-21
Nice read
I liked this book. It was light and an easy listen. I’m happy with the ending as well.
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- Celeen Lawrence
- 01-18-24
Family Bonds
I loved the characters and the story line. The character of Gervais was very quirky and seemed shifty. The issues that arose with the brothers personally and as a group were very realistic. I have four siblings and there are often things that are unresolved and will rise up occasionally.
I love the straightforward style of Lisa Jewell and enjoy her books. I highly recommend this book.
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