The Long Way Home
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Narrated by:
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Sandra Duncan
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Esther Wane
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By:
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Fanny Blake
About this listen
When Isla, a 65-year-old grandmother, is left nothing but an old painting in her mother’s will, while her sisters and aunt inherit the estate, she is devastated. Close to retirement, getting ready to live on her own terms, the last thing she expects at this time of her life is such turmoil. So, to find an explanation for her mother’s rejection, she embarks on a road-trip.
But, right at the last moment, she’s forced to take her sullen – and, in her view, impossible – 14-year-old granddaughter Charlie with her. Cramped together in Isla’s car with her smelly old dog, these ill-assorted travelling companions set off to uncover some shattering and life-changing family truths at the same time as learning to love each other…
The Long Way Home is set in the UK and 1950s Paris where the story really begins, spanning four generations of women and the secrets that get passed down through them.©2021 Fanny Blake (P)2021 Simon & Schuster UK
Critic reviews
‘Thoroughly enjoyable, with endearing, believable characters and long-held secrets' (Katie Fforde)
‘Fanny Blake knows how to pinpoint what goes on in families. She is warm but never sentimental and her stories take a grip on the reader’ (Elizabeth Buchan)
Family relationships + secrets
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Parts of it just seem added complexities that have little reason or explanation.
The ending explanations are just plain silly to be honest.
Promised a lot but I feel a real let down
Maybe worth a listen
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Easy listening
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