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Breaking and Entering

By: Don Gillmor
Narrated by: Karie Richards
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During the hottest summer on record, Bea's dangerous new hobby puts everyone's sense of security to the test.

Forty-nine and sweating through the hottest summer on record, Beatrice Billings is rudderless: her marriage is stale, her son communicates solely through cryptic text messages, her mother has dementia, and she conducts endless arguments with her older sister in her head. Toronto feels like an inadequately air-conditioned museum of its former self, and the same could be said of her life. She dreams of the past, her days as a newlywed, a new mom, a new homeowner gutting the kitchen—now the only novel experience that looms is the threat of divorce.

Everything changes when she googles "escape" and discovers the world of amateur lock-picking. Breaking into houses is thrilling: she’s subtle and discreet, never greedy, but as her curiosity about other people’s lives becomes a dangerous compulsion and the entire city feels a few degrees from boiling over, she realizes she must turn her guilty analysis on herself. A searingly insightful rendering of midlife among the anxieties of the early twenty-first century, Breaking and Entering is an exacting look at the fragility of all the things we take on faith.

©2023 Don Gillmor (P)2023 Biblioasis
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“A devastating and droll portrait of middle age that will be instantly recognizable to the 'sandwich generation,' stuck between kids and parents, and just generally stuck. It's a period of life that makes you want to do crazy things, and the only escape is other people.” —Stephen Marche, author of The Hunger of the Wolf

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“Breaking and Entering” is a cleverly written book read by a narrator matched perfectly with the character. The inner dialogue of Beatrice ranges from giggle-eliciting to deeply philosophical. It’s fascinating to hear Bea’s mind create conversations, assess people and situations, and employ defense mechanisms as needed. I highly recommend this audio book.
*Caution: There are several brief instances of animal cruelty.


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