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The Mother I Could Have Been
- Narrated by: Emma Spurgin Hussey
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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Summary
Why would you walk away from the one person you can’t live without?
As a child, Vicky Hall never had the sort of family she wanted. The least important person in her new step-family, ignored by her mother in favour of her two younger half siblings, Vicky was always an afterthought. Sitting alone at her graduation ceremony at the age of 21, she vows to create her own family and her own life, one which is full of the love and attention she has always craved.
When Vicky meets William and falls pregnant in Greece that summer, it isn’t planned. But the two of them believe they can make it work, showering their child with the love which they believe should be enough.
But when her son Theo is two, Vicky leaves him in the care of her mother-in-law, walks out of her front door and drives to a hotel where she takes a room for the night. She doesn’t return.
It’s unthinkable.
What kind of mother does that?
The kind who is hiding a story you can never imagine.
The Mother I Could Have Been is a heartbreaking story of impossible decisions and second chances, from the best-selling author of The Silent Wife and The Woman I Was Before. Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Liane Moriarty and Diane Chamberlain.
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- nora46
- 02-04-20
An excellent read.
Loved it, couldn't put it down. Well written with complex but believable story lines.
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- Gkmiss
- 05-04-20
Brilliant
Was trying to think of words to best describe it and brilliant in every sense of the word best describes it. The story is so unpredictable you have no idea how it might end. It’s not the perfect happy ever after book but a proper reflection on real life. Ho you just don’t know what is around the corner and how you might react to a situation and how people are not straight forward or obvious in their reasoning for their actions. Would highly recommend.
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- SamanthaK
- 28-03-20
Heart breaking but lovely
The characters in this beautiful book reach out of the pages with their joys and pains of motherhood. Any mother will feel and understand the dynamics of these relationships. How other mothers seem to get it right and have it all.... read this and beautifully weep for all our motherhood mistakes, our finger pointing at who is wrong but please god, someone come up with a parent/mother manual. A must read!
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- JT
- 30-12-21
5 star
what a book!
intensity perfectly balanced with real, sound characters.
a study of families and relationships,
focusing on how everybody sees and remembers the same event or period of time so very differently;
how we sometimes go on carrying our grudges for years
only to later learn that there was no reason to.
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- lizzie
- 04-09-21
Thought Provoking
Stirs a lot of emotions and makes you want to shout ' tell it as it is'.
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- Brenda Clark
- 19-09-21
Beautifully captures the complexity of familied
Kerry Fisher really hit home with her book about the dynamics of ordinary families. It is so true that our ideals for our families and our best intentions can easily crash on the rocks that our lives present. As well, I was pleased that the family in this story had an uplifting ending despite the sadness in getting there.
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- Honeybee
- 31-08-20
Made me Cry
This was a lovely touching story of life as it is.
How time can run away and misunderstands left to fester before being putt right.
Beautiful written and touchingly narrated.
It flowed from the begging
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- Fridrika
- 04-11-20
Yndi bók!
Ég sá góða umræðu um þessa bók inni á Bókagull á Facebook. Mér fannst hún mjög góð en verð að segja að mig langaði að skalla tengdamömmuna á tímabili. Mér fannst líka góður eftirmáli höfundar. Mæður yfirgefa ekki börn sín útaf skorti á ást.
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- Inspiredbypmdd
- 25-03-20
lovely
randomly came across this book and listened to it in one day. lock downs have to be good for something. :)
loved the characters and the two dynamics, along with the twists and turns.
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- Cath Lee
- 05-05-20
loved it!
I hardly ever bother to give a review but I love the easy listening of Kerry Fisher books. loved this one along with others by her. She writes in such a fluent style revealing her characters slowly with such empathy which draws you into their lives. loved it!
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