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A rich, heartwarming, and charming debut novel that reminds us that sometimes you find love in the most unexpected places.
Dan Hollis lives a happy, solitary life carving exquisite Celtic harps in his barn in the countryside of the English moors. Here, he can be himself, away from social situations that he doesn’t always get right or completely understand.
On the anniversary of her beloved father’s death, Ellie Jacobs takes a walk in the woods and comes across Dan’s barn. She is enchanted by his collection. Dan gives her a harp made of cherrywood to match her cherry socks. He stores it for her, ready for whenever she’d like to take lessons.
Ellie begins visiting Dan almost daily and quickly learns that he isn’t like other people. He makes her sandwiches precisely cut into triangles and repeatedly counts the (17) steps of the wooden staircase to the upstairs practice room. Ellie soon realizes Dan isn’t just different; in many ways, his world is better, and he gives her a fresh perspective on her own life.
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Up-and-coming musician Tom thinks he met the love of his life one night a year ago, but thanks to a made-up girlfriend, he’s pretty sure he’s never going to see her again. If it weren’t for the painkillers the doctor had given him for his dislocated shoulder, he could’ve explained what really happened. But now the moment for explanations has gone, so he just keeps writing songs about her in the wild hope that she’ll hear one on the radio and understand.
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Great story. ?
- By Anita Straw on 08-29-24
By: Owen Nicholls
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Some of It Was Real
- By: Nan Fischer
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton, Pete Cross
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Psychic-medium Sylvie Young starts every show with her origin story, telling the audience how she discovered her abilities. But she leaves out a lot—the plane crash that killed her parents, an estranged adoptive family, and the fact that her agent insists she research some clients to ensure success. Thomas Holmes’s next story at the L.A. Times may be his last, but he’s got a great personal pitch: “grief vampires” like Sylvie who prey upon the loved ones of the deceased have bankrupted his mother. He’s dead set on using his last article to expose Sylvie as a fraud.
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Wanting more
- By Brenda Dale Slaton on 07-29-22
By: Nan Fischer
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You, Me, and the Sea
- A Novel
- By: Meg Donohue
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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As a child, Merrow Shawe believes she is born of the sea: strong, joyous, and wild. Her beloved home is Horseshoe Cliff, a small farm on the coast of Northern California where she spends her days exploring fog-cloaked bluffs, swimming in the cove, and basking in the light of golden sunsets as her father entertains her with fantastical stories. It is an enchanting childhood, but it is not without hardship - the mystery of Merrow’s mother’s death haunts her, as does the increasingly senseless cruelty of her older brother, Bear. Then Amir arrives in Merrow’s life....
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One of my favorites!
- By Kasbnkl on 06-03-20
By: Meg Donohue
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Something About Her
- By: Clementine Taylor
- Narrated by: Helena Wilson, Róisín Rankin, Clementine Taylor
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Moving between Ireland, Scotland and London, Something About Her is a story about the fragility and transformative power of first love. With vivid insight and tenderness, it exposes the fear, hope, and longing that can consume us, particularly when there’s so much you still don’t know about love, about life, and about yourself.
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Paced perfectly and genuinely beautiful emotions
- By BeddyTimes on 02-08-24
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Everything After
- By: Jill Santopolo
- Narrated by: Jill Santopolo
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Emily has come a long way since she lost her two passions 15 years ago: music, and Rob. She's a psychologist at NYU who helps troubled college students like the one she once was. Together with her caring doctor husband, Ezra, she has a beautiful life. They're happy. They hope to start a family. But when a tragic event in Emily's present too closely echoes her past, and parts of her story that she'd hoped never to share come to light, her perfect life is suddenly upturned.
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Beautifully written
- By BBL on 04-02-21
By: Jill Santopolo
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Breathe the Sky
- By: Michelle Hazen
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Mari Tucker is a wildlife biologist who scoops bunnies and endangered tortoises out of harm's way on construction sites. Still haunted by her past, she takes the most remote jobs in the Mojave Desert to avoid people and hide from her ex. It's a simple, quiet life filled with sweet animals and solar-powered baking until she ends up assigned to Jack Wyatt's crew.
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Revisiting my review...
- By Admirer of great books; critic of bad books. on 08-21-20
By: Michelle Hazen
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Perfect Timing
- A Novel
- By: Owen Nicholls
- Narrated by: Sofia Zervudachi, Peter Hannah
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Up-and-coming musician Tom thinks he met the love of his life one night a year ago, but thanks to a made-up girlfriend, he’s pretty sure he’s never going to see her again. If it weren’t for the painkillers the doctor had given him for his dislocated shoulder, he could’ve explained what really happened. But now the moment for explanations has gone, so he just keeps writing songs about her in the wild hope that she’ll hear one on the radio and understand.
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Great story. ?
- By Anita Straw on 08-29-24
By: Owen Nicholls
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Some of It Was Real
- By: Nan Fischer
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton, Pete Cross
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Psychic-medium Sylvie Young starts every show with her origin story, telling the audience how she discovered her abilities. But she leaves out a lot—the plane crash that killed her parents, an estranged adoptive family, and the fact that her agent insists she research some clients to ensure success. Thomas Holmes’s next story at the L.A. Times may be his last, but he’s got a great personal pitch: “grief vampires” like Sylvie who prey upon the loved ones of the deceased have bankrupted his mother. He’s dead set on using his last article to expose Sylvie as a fraud.
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Wanting more
- By Brenda Dale Slaton on 07-29-22
By: Nan Fischer
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You, Me, and the Sea
- A Novel
- By: Meg Donohue
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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As a child, Merrow Shawe believes she is born of the sea: strong, joyous, and wild. Her beloved home is Horseshoe Cliff, a small farm on the coast of Northern California where she spends her days exploring fog-cloaked bluffs, swimming in the cove, and basking in the light of golden sunsets as her father entertains her with fantastical stories. It is an enchanting childhood, but it is not without hardship - the mystery of Merrow’s mother’s death haunts her, as does the increasingly senseless cruelty of her older brother, Bear. Then Amir arrives in Merrow’s life....
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One of my favorites!
- By Kasbnkl on 06-03-20
By: Meg Donohue
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Something About Her
- By: Clementine Taylor
- Narrated by: Helena Wilson, Róisín Rankin, Clementine Taylor
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Moving between Ireland, Scotland and London, Something About Her is a story about the fragility and transformative power of first love. With vivid insight and tenderness, it exposes the fear, hope, and longing that can consume us, particularly when there’s so much you still don’t know about love, about life, and about yourself.
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Paced perfectly and genuinely beautiful emotions
- By BeddyTimes on 02-08-24
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Everything After
- By: Jill Santopolo
- Narrated by: Jill Santopolo
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Emily has come a long way since she lost her two passions 15 years ago: music, and Rob. She's a psychologist at NYU who helps troubled college students like the one she once was. Together with her caring doctor husband, Ezra, she has a beautiful life. They're happy. They hope to start a family. But when a tragic event in Emily's present too closely echoes her past, and parts of her story that she'd hoped never to share come to light, her perfect life is suddenly upturned.
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Beautifully written
- By BBL on 04-02-21
By: Jill Santopolo
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Breathe the Sky
- By: Michelle Hazen
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Mari Tucker is a wildlife biologist who scoops bunnies and endangered tortoises out of harm's way on construction sites. Still haunted by her past, she takes the most remote jobs in the Mojave Desert to avoid people and hide from her ex. It's a simple, quiet life filled with sweet animals and solar-powered baking until she ends up assigned to Jack Wyatt's crew.
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Revisiting my review...
- By Admirer of great books; critic of bad books. on 08-21-20
By: Michelle Hazen
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Life and Otter Miracles
- By: Hazel Prior
- Narrated by: Seema Bowri
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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19-year-old Phoebe and her courier father Al have recently moved to Devon, to a small cottage with a river at the end of the garden. Struggling with her health, Phoebe doesn't go out much these days. Instead, she spends her time playing detective—trying to deduce from her father's deliveries what kinds of lives her neighbours lead. When Phoebe finds an abandoned baby otter by the river, it's just the push she needs to finally step into her new community. Taking the otter to the local sanctuary, she feels a joy that she has not felt in a very long time.
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An Otter Miracle in itself
- By Margaret on 09-24-24
By: Hazel Prior
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What Remains True
- A Novel
- By: Nancy Naigle
- Narrated by: Caroline Cole
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Working at a little shop on Main Street in a small town is exactly the break that executive Merry Anna Foster needs following her divorce. She’s made a bet with her ex-husband that she can live on the amount of money she’s giving him in alimony. If she can do it, then Kevin will have to stop complaining and leave her alone. But after three months of this new life, will she even want to leave Antler Creek?
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The plot
- By Christie on 03-05-24
By: Nancy Naigle
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The Boy with the Bookstore
- By: Sarah Echavarre Smith
- Narrated by: Donnabella Mortel, Dane Anderson
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Max Boyson looks good...from a distance. But up close and personal, the tattooed hottie Joelle Prima has been crushing on for the past year and half has turned into the prime example of why you shouldn’t judge a book by his delectable cover. When she first learned about the massive renovation to the building they share, Joelle imagined that temporarily combining her Filipino bakery with Max’s neighboring bookstore would be the perfect opening chapter to their happily ever after.
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Books and Sweets!
- By KK on 09-06-22
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Call of the Penguins
- By: Hazel Prior
- Narrated by: Ayoola Smart, Nigel Pilkington, Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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Fiercely resilient and impeccably dressed, Veronica McCreedy has lived an incredible 87 years. Most of them alone, in her huge house by the sea. But Veronica has recently discovered a late-life love for family and friendship, adventure and wildlife. More specifically, a love for penguins! And so when she's invited to co-present a wildlife documentary, far away in the southern hemisphere, she jumps at the chance. Even though it will put her in the spotlight, just when she thought she would soon fade into the wings.
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Emotional and real
- By Amazon Customer on 10-04-24
By: Hazel Prior
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Fancy Meeting You Here
- A Novel
- By: Julie Tieu
- Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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Every single one of Elise Ngo’s close girlfriends—Rebecca, Jesse, and Beth—is getting married within the same few months, and every single one of them has asked her to be both bridesmaid and florist. Though it’s a lot for her to juggle, the work and exposure is a boon to her struggling flower shop. The stakes are high at Rebecca’s high-profile wedding, where the guests are mostly political connections of Rebecca’s parents. Desperate for the event to go off without a hitch, Elise enlists the help of an outside caterer who turns out to be Ben Yu, Rebecca’s elusive younger brother.
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Ticked all the boxes for me!
- By clorio on 07-22-24
By: Julie Tieu
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How the Penguins Saved Veronica
- By: Hazel Prior
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd, Andrew Fallaize, Mandy Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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Eighty-five-year-old Veronica McCreedy is estranged from her family and wants to find a worthwhile cause to which to leave her fortune. When she sees a documentary about penguins being studied in Antarctica, she tells the scientists she's coming to visit - and won't take no for an answer. Shortly after arriving, she convinces the reluctant team to rescue an orphaned baby penguin. He becomes part of life at the base, and Veronica's closed heart starts to open.
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A mostly pleasant story
- By Kristyn Rose on 02-28-21
By: Hazel Prior
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The Second Home
- A Novel
- By: Christina Clancy
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
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After a disastrous summer spent at her family summer home on Cape Cod, 17-year-old Ann Gordon was left with a secret that changed her life forever and created a rift between her sister, Poppy, and their adopted brother, Michael. Now, 15 years later, her parents have died, leaving Ann and Poppy to decide the fate of the Wellfleet home that's been in the Gordon family for generations. For Ann, the once-beloved house is tainted with bad memories. Poppy loves the old saltbox, but after years spent chasing waves around the world, she isn't sure she knows how to stay in one place.
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Not the Summer Read I was looking for
- By Wiserolder on 08-14-20
By: Christina Clancy
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Once Persuaded, Twice Shy
- A Modern Reimagining of Persuasion
- By: Melodie Edwards
- Narrated by: Rachel Perry
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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In her scenic hometown of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Anne is comfortable focusing on her successful career: filling her late mother’s shoes as town councilor and executive director of her theater company. She certainly keeps busy as the all-around wrangler of eccentric locals, self-centered family members, elaborate festivals, and the occasional attacking goose. But the more she tries to convince herself that her life is fine as is, the more it all feels like a show—and not nearly as good as the ones put on by her theater company.
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The narration was okay but a bit distracting
- By Maren’s Reads on 03-22-24
By: Melodie Edwards
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Search History
- A Novel
- By: Amy Taylor
- Narrated by: Maddy Withington
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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After Ana flees to Melbourne in the wake of a breakup, all she has to show for herself is an unfulfilling job and one particularly questionable dating app experience. Then she meets Evan: the old-fashioned way, at a bar. Charming, kind, and responsible, Evan is a complete deviation from her usual type. Ana tries to let their relationship unfold IRL, but she can’t resist the urge to find him online. When she discovers that his previous girlfriend died in a hit-and-run, Ana begins to worry that she’s living in the shadow of his lost love.
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Much ado about very little
- By Martin on 09-27-24
By: Amy Taylor
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Writing Her In
- By: Holley Trent
- Narrated by: Natalie Eaton, Sean Crisden, Lila Winters
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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Dara and Adrien Valliere are soul mates and best friends...but they’re not lovers. Their marriage may be unconventional, but it’s satisfying and loving, and they’ve never needed anything or anyone else. Until they met writer Stacia Leonard. Stacia built a career on maintaining close ties with her fictional characters while keeping everyone else at arm’s length. She avoids intimacy, apart from a few one-night stands. But when Adrien Valliere, her cover model and long-distance friend, invites her for drinks, she’s too fascinated to refuse.
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Prolonged relationship establishment between the characters.
- By Kindle Customer on 08-22-24
By: Holley Trent
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Been There, Married That
- A Novel
- By: Gigi Levangie
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife - she has the right friends, the right clothes, and even a side career of her own as a writer. Her husband, Trevor, is a bigshot producer, and from the outside it looks like they’re living a picture-perfect celebrity life. But the job description of a Hollywood wife doesn’t cover divorce, which is the way Agnes’ life is headed after she comes home one day to find her credit cards cancelled and the security passwords to get into her enormous LA home changed.
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A bit long, but enjoyable.
- By CLL on 01-31-22
By: Gigi Levangie
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A Shot in the Dark
- A Novel
- By: Victoria Lee
- Narrated by: Scott Turner Schofield, Gilli Messer
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Elisheva Cohen has just returned to New York after almost a decade away. The wounds of her past haven’t fully healed, but four years of sobriety and a scholarship to study photography with art legend Wyatt Cole are signs of good things to come, right? They could be, as long as Ely resists self-sabotage. She’s lucky enough to hit it off with a handsome himbo her first night out in the city. But the morning after their mind-blowing hookup, reality comes knocking.
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A slow burn romance with a unique storyline
- By Iaah L on 06-18-24
By: Victoria Lee
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- Siren
- 02-24-20
Nice for St. Patty's
I found the character of Fan to be too similar to the boy in, "Curious Incident of a Dog in Nighttime." I found Ellie to be too sappy and unsurprising. It's a sweet story, and helped bring in the St. Patty's Day spirit, but I'm not in love. The voice characters' accents were appealing.
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- sheena brooks
- 05-14-21
Delightful read!
I would read this book all over again! Such a delightful read the narration is perfect…!
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- Christine
- 09-01-21
Life is what we make of it.
Sweet story. I really liked Dan. He reminded me of my grandson. A pleasant read.
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- Julie Maria Goggins
- 03-02-20
Highly recommended!
If you liked Eleanor Oliphant. then this is for you!!!
A great narration, especially the Dan chapters.
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- Regina
- 07-25-24
A Charming Delight
A wonderful listen and perfectly Narrated as well. I’ll look for more of this authors work.
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- David Tousey
- 11-11-19
Lovely Every Which Way
This is a lovely story (...been reading some heavy stuff, including the news...). Well written, lovely metaphors and for myself I sensed the manipulation early on of Clive, having lived through it. Character development is essential to a good story - even a romance - and this is beautifully done. Wish I could live in Exmoor - with the forests and the ponies. (...been there only to visit...)
Enjoy!
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- Lisa M. Hofstetter
- 12-04-21
Kind, thoughtful, romantic yet realistic
This is by far one of the loveliest novels I have ever read. The development of characters, along side the audio depiction, paired to make this a 5-star winner! Sensitive without being cliche! A worthwhile read!
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- Sharon Seidman
- 09-05-19
excellent in every way
I just loved it. Beautiful in every dimension . A true gem of a book.
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- Linda D.
- 04-23-22
Sweet story
I can’t imagine reading this book, because Philip Battley really created the quirks of Dan, and I don’t think that might’ve been captured as well in my own imagination.
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- Star Trek it's not
- 09-18-22
I LOVED this!!
This book was so good. I am a violin luthier and have my own harp that I'm going to fix up and learn to play. I would love to be a harp luthier as well. This book was so cute in the beginning. It got fairly dark, which I wasn't expecting. I am a domestic violence survivor and would have appreciated something about Clive's character in the description so that wasn't sprung on me, but I still enjoyed the book immensely. The way Ellie reacted towards Clive is very typical for victims of abuse. She is not weak or timid, she was abused. That may be hard for people to understand if they haven't been through it themselves (which I'm glad they haven't experienced it and I hope they never do).
I shared it in my harp groups on Facebook so other harpist would find it and give it a listen. The narrators were amazing. I'm definitely going to listen to more from Hazel Prior and the narrators.
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