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The Letter
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Summary
The Number One Kindle best seller guaranteed to break your heart.
Every so often a love story comes along to remind us that sometimes, in our darkest hour, hope shines a candle to light our way.
Discover the Number One best seller that has captured thousands of hearts worldwide....
Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband. She works all the hours God sends to save up enough money to leave him, also volunteering in a charity shop to avoid her unhappy home. Whilst going through the pockets of a second-hand suit, she comes across an old letter, the envelope firmly sealed and unfranked. Tina opens the letter and reads it - a decision that will alter the course of her life for ever....
Billy Stirling knows he has been a fool, but hopes he can put things right. On 4th September 1939 he sits down to write the letter he hopes will change his future. It does - in more ways than he can ever imagine....
The Letter tells the story of two women, born decades apart, whose paths are destined to cross and how one woman's devastation leads to the other's salvation.
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- sue
- 02-08-15
A winner fantastic
This book has it all for me, struggles, heartbreak, love and loss, motherhood. Pain friendship.
I loved the story, the narration the jumps twists and turns.
And I identified with parts of the book myself.
Firm favourite.
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- Sheila
- 19-07-15
Brilliant
Brilliant story, brilliantly narrator had me gripped from beginning to end
Shame it had to end
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- Lulu
- 21-07-15
The Good & Bad done in the name of Love
I congratulate the author for the brilliant manner in which this book was written; for telling an emotional and heart wrenching story with which many people today can identify, in a compassionate yet captivating manner.
This book was indeed heartbreaking in giving a realistic depiction of the harsh lives and consequences of those abused in the name of love due to the influences of alcoholism and societal stigmas. But, the brutal or real sad parts are cushioned as the story is swayed between different eras and character's stories; making the heartbreak bearable while keeping you engaged, eager to learn more and expect or rather hope that things will get better for the characters.
The narrator held her own; using the appropriate national and local accents, for the young and the old... I thought she was spot on every time!
I'd actually suggest this book for a book club because it raises many issues that could encourage interesting discussions and debate as well as research. I found the book so engaging that I read it in one day!!
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- Lindy
- 24-01-17
Feeling a little bewildered
I am somewhat bemused by the fact that my opinion is so out of line with hundreds of reviewers. This was an audible recommendation, and the fact that such a large number of people raved about it made it think it would be the book for me.
However, it did not engage me much at all, let alone make me weep; I don't think I'm just hard-hearted - plenty of stories affect me enormously. The emphasis was on the storyline, rather than characterisation. The characters were all very good or very bad and I couldn't really connect emotionally with them, or indeed the situations they found themselves in. I found the writing rather simplistic and hackneyed, and the story predictable and somewhat saccharin. It also annoyed me that I felt so much had been borrowed from the wonderful film "Philomena", where the characterisation was brilliant and the heartstrings really tugged.
I shall hopefully succeed in returning to storylines and characters with much more depth in future!
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- Chris
- 30-01-16
Very good
This is a good story, quite absorbing and did not shy away from some of the more violent sides of life. Very enjoyable recommended
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- Mrs C Hutchinson.
- 05-06-15
Just loved this book
Such a simple idea leading to a beautifully told, totally engaging and satisfying book. A great story wonderfully read.
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- LisaMarie
- 13-08-16
Couldn't finish it. Very negative vibe
All the characters are either bully's or too weak to stand up for themselves. There was nothing happy about this book & I had to turn it off.
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- Angela Boyd
- 08-07-15
Feel good novel
Gripping. Carried along on the story. Loved it. The mix of 1939 and 1973 stop the story being too much of the same but the link of the 2 times is clever.
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- Rooty tooty
- 27-10-15
Actions always have consequences!!
If there was ever a book to describe the mess humans can make when trying to control others it is this.
I loved it. Well read by Rachel Atkins. A consummate performer.
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- anne
- 02-10-15
A fantastic and thoroughly engaging story
I loved listening to this story. Brilliant characters and a fantastic plot weaving between two timelines which come together at the end. Definitely recommended.
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