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Always and Forever

By: Cathy Kelly
Narrated by: Niamh Cusack
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About this listen

The new warm and engaging novel from the bestselling author of Best of Friends.

Read by Niamh Cusack.

What makes you who you are?
Your job? Your kids? Your place in the family?

For Carrickwell residents, Mel, Frankie and Cleo, the answer was once clear and their roles were firmly defined.

Mel had a career. Frankie was a busy mum with a college-going son. And Cleo was ready to step into the family business once she’d finished her hotel management course. Until the landscape shifted.

Now Mel’s job comes second to the guilt of being a working mum-of-two. Her marriage isn’t even on the page.

Frankie has her mothering vocation whipped out from under her feet when her son flies the nest. She’s suddenly redundant and her fractitious widowed mother thinks they now have more in common and can start doing things together, dodgy hip notwithstanding.

And Cleo has to watch the family business crumble along with her relationship with family.

But inspiration on how to go forward comes from the most unlikely source.

And the three women find that it’s not what you do that ultimately defines you. It’s something more…

©2009 HarperCollins Publishers; (P)2009 HarperCollins Publishers Classics Contemporary Family Life Genre Fiction Magical Realism Romance

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Critic reviews

PRAISE FOR CATHY KELLY:

‘An absorbing heart-warming tale.’ COMPANY

‘The gap in the market left by Maeve Binchy packing away her laptop has been well and truly filled by Cathy Kelly…A soap opera of tears and laughter.’ DAILY MIRROR

‘Warm and delightful’ New Woman

‘Cathy Kelly’s new book is her most compassionate and compelling sor far.’ Irish Independent

‘Not only one but two likeable heroines… Kelly dramatises her story with plenty of sparky humour’
The Times

‘Totally believable' ROSAMUNDE PILCHER
All stars
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loved it. what a successor to maeve binchy Cathy Kelly is. can't wait for more.

riveting from beginning to end.

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As with all Cathy Kelly books 📚 there are so many different people you have to listen to know who the story is about

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