well worth a read

loved the book good twist. The narrator was excellent. I usually fall asleep listening to a audio book but this one kept me interested and awake

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Lovely story...

I enjoyed this book. It was beautifully written and the narration was excellent. The esoteric aspects may not be to everyone's taste but just accept the weirdness and you will enjoy the story. Characters are believable and the story kept me gripped all the way through. Thank you.

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lovely story though a little slow

A lovely but touching story, very sad at the end, certainly took me by surprise.

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Brilliant

Fantastic story
Wonderful narration
Kept you listening and not wanting to stop it
Great page turner

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Exciting well written story

I enjoyed this story with its intriguing twists and turns. I love how the lives of the characters weave in and out of one another in the past and present. The author reveals the subtle twists bit by bit until the final plot is revealed. I did guess some of it sooner than she wanted me to, but this didn't detract from the story.

The narrator is very expressive, even to the point of overdoing the emotional voices of the overwrought characters, but this was better than some of the dull, flat narrators I have listened to in the past.

Matt appears in Jenny's life just after her little daughter Gracie is involved in a serious car accident. Jenny, recently separated from her husband, comes across as an incredibly emotionally fragile and vulnerable person, an obsessively smotheringly overprotective mother, even taking into account that Gracie nearly died in the car accident. She has no notion at all of discipline and just lets Gracie do as she wants, so grateful is she that Gracie is alive. She doesn't even seem to relate to her daughter as a proper person, baby-talking down to her in an annoyingly coochy-coo singsong, though Gracie seems mature for her age, with interests, opinions, thoughts of her own and the ability to hold a proper conversation. Jenny disbelievingly dismisses Grace's near death experience of heaven and meeting her dead grandpa as "just a dream". Gracie herself comes across like an obnoxious, disobedient, whiny brat with her irritatingly high pitched squeaky voice. She repeatedly runs away or wriggles out of her mother's arms, no doubt protesting the smothering embrace and lack of understanding of her experiences. One wonders how this kind of overbearing mothering will affect her as she gets older.
I won't reveal what happens as Matt and Jenny become emotionally close, or the final outcome, but it's really a great story.

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A good read

The narrator was very good. Good read for the summer although wasn't too keen on the ending.

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Great

I loved it, so full of suspence intrigue and a story of a mother's love. Narrator excellent too

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Predictable story with annoying narration

I wish I hadn't bothered, from start to finish the story was so predictable. Gracie doesn't have a secret, I kept listening, in the vain hope that something (other than what I had assumed from paragraph one) would happen. Oh and the narration, dear god, it was like nails scraping on a blackboard, all in all a waste of a credit.

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Weak

Weak story and The child voice was far too screechy I was disappointed overall -wouldn’t recommend

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Waste of a credit

So annoyed with this book, I wish I never spent my credit on it. There isn't really a story, the main character waffles on and on about her daughter, nothing really HAPPENS. It is absolutely unbelievable that a child of the age of 3 speaks like this. And the worst of it is that the narrator has an awfully grating voice. So yes, I did not like it.

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