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All the Good Things

Yazan: Clare Fisher
Seslendiren: Emily Atack
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of All the Good Things by Clare Fisher, read by Emily Atack.

Twenty-one year old Beth is in prison. The thing she did is so bad she doesn't deserve ever to feel good again.

But her counsellor, Erika, won't give up on her. She asks Beth to make a list of all the good things in her life. So Beth starts to write down her story, from sharing silences with Foster Dad No. 1, to flirting in the Odeon on Orange Wednesdays, to the very first time she sniffed her baby's head.

But at the end of her story, Beth must confront the bad thing.

What is the truth hiding behind her crime? And does anyone - even a 100% bad person - deserve a chance to be good?

All the Good Things is a story about redemption and hope for fans of Nathan Filer, Stephen Kelman and Emma Healey

Praise for All the Good Things

Heartfelt, heartbreaking, and genuinely joyous (Francis Spufford, author of 'Golden Hill')

Compassionate and beautifully written (Carys Bray, author of 'The Museum of You')

I raced through this beautiful novel, which oscillates between pain and hope, anger and joy. An important novel which celebrates the fact that good things exist inside every person, no matter how ignored or hidden. (Sarah Butler, author of 'Ten Things I've Learned About Love' and 'Before the Fire')

A heartbreaking, vital and seamless insight into a life that might otherwise be ignored or judged. The voice of Bethany is perfect - compelling, whip-smart and deeply affecting. (Emma Jane Unsworth, author of 'Animals')

If I could have given this book six stars I could. . So beautifully written and so insightful (5* Goodreads review)

In this profoundly moving but surprisingly funny debut novel, Clare Fisher has given voice to people on the fringes of society, people with a story like any of us (5* Netgalley review)

This empathetic beautiful story will have you bawling your eyes out (5* Goodreads review)

'All The Good Things' is a well written and heartbreaking novel (5* Goodreads review)

Utterly riveting, cunningly written and bursting full of character (4* Netgalley review)

This really is a wonderful debut... a beautiful story about social exclusion, the vulnerability of women and girls, and the unfortunate ones who fall through the cracks (4* Goodreads review)

[This] novel will challenge preconceptions about the kind of people who end up in care; the kind of people who end up in prison; the kind of people who do terrible things (4* Goodreads review)

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Heartfelt, heartbreaking, and genuinely joyous (Francis Spufford, author of 'Golden Hill')
Compassionate and beautifully written (Carys Bray, author of A Song For Issy Bradley)
A funny and hopeful story... Clare writes with compassion and insight (Kit de Waal, bestselling author of 'My Name is Leon')
I raced through this beautiful novel, which oscillates between pain and hope, anger and joy. An important novel which celebrates the fact that good things exist inside every person, no matter how ignored or hidden. (Sarah Butler, author of 'Ten Things I've Learned About Love' and 'Before the Fire')
A heartbreaking, vital and seamless insight into a life that might otherwise be ignored or judged. The voice of Bethany is perfect - compelling, whip-smart and deeply affecting. (Emma Jane Unsworth, author of 'Animals')
Clare Fisher's novel addresses poverty, fear, and desperation. The protagonist, Beth, must fight for every good thing in her life. She has grown up in foster care and has no friends or family to protect her when she moves London. In many ways, it is a novel about loneliness and isolation. Yet throughout there is an indomitable love. It is a book that burns with compassion, both Beth's and Fisher's. The reader is left with the desire to find whatever resources of empathy they have and to live with greater kindness. (Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of Harmless Like You)
A moving, compassionate account of someone struggling hard for redemption
A sparky and unsettling debut
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A slow start nearly had me abandon this novel, but wow, I'm glad I didn't.

From the off we know that Beth, the young protagonist, is in prison, but not why. However, rather than focus on the 'bad thing' that got Beth incarcerated, Claire Fisher shows how the cards are stacked against those with a background such as hers. We start with Beth's childhood in care, learn her mother had mental health difficulties, and so it's explained how she becomes a young person with a tendency to alienate others by acting out, and much, much more. Working with a counsellor, Beth explores the 'good things' that have also made up her life, and overall picture painted is very poignant and believable - all the more so as I lived for many years in the stretch of South London (Streatham, Brixton, Stockwell) where the novel is set and it was so vivid that at times I felt I was stomping round shrieking and behaving badly with Beth and her friends.

A very impressive debut written with heart and intelligence, I look forward to more from this author.

Empathetic and moving

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
I devoured this book. I believe that very few people are ‘born evil’, that living forms us in good and sadly, bad ways too. This book takes this and runs with it, with a clever cast of believable and crucially, compassionate characters, often broken to a greater or lesser extent themselves, but oh so warm and giving in their own ways. I smiled and cried, but was left with hope. A brilliant read that will stay with me.

Wonderful That strange mix of raw and warm.

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Easy to listen to and very insightful in places however seemed to me lacking in others. Overall I struggled to really get inside the head of the character.

Not for me

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Bethany is in prison for having done a bad thing, and this book is both her exploration of what she did, which she can’t bring herself to name until the last chapter, and the story of her life which explains why she did it. It is a very cleverly constructed account of a Looked After Child’s life with large numbers of foster parents, and community support which means well, but ultimately lets her down time after time. The book ends on a happier note, and we have to hope that Bethany’s life will continue to improve. I can’t say I enjoyed this memoir of misery, but it is well written, and shows how having the best of intentions is not enough if you don’t have support to fulfill them.

Not the happiest story I have ever read, but well written and believable.

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I laughed and cried and cried some more. Beautifully crafted story of the saddest thing I’ve ever experienced vicariously. How it managed to be uplifting despite the grim events is itself a marvel of storytelling and creative writing. Loved this novel.

Brilliant & heartbreaking in a good way

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