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  • By: Karen Swan
  • Narrated by: Imogen Church
  • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary

The Perfect Present is glamorous and festive read from Karen Swan, author of Christmas at Tiffany's.

Haunted by a past she can't escape, Laura Cunningham desires nothing more than to keep her world small and precise - her quiet relationship and growing jewellery business are all she needs to get by. Until the day when Rob Blake walks into her studio and commissions a necklace that will tell his enigmatic wife Cat's life in charms.

As Laura interviews Cat's family, friends and former lovers, she steps out of her world and into theirs - a charmed world where weekends are spent in Verbier and the air is lavender-scented, where friends are wild, extravagant and jealous, and a big love has to compete with grand passions.

Hearts are opened, secrets revealed and as the necklace begins to fill up with trinkets, Cat's intoxicating life envelops Laura's own. By the time she has to identify the final charm, Laura's metamorphosis is almost complete. But the last story left to tell has the power to change all of their lives forever, and Laura is forced to choose between who she really is and who it is she wants to be.

©2017 Karen Swan (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio

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Beautiful book

Love the book but don't like Female narrators doing men's voices. Have the paper copy of this book and love it!

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A different book by Swan

A Somewhat Different Karen Swan Book. Really enjoyed listening, as it kept my attention with all the twists and turns.

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No words

No words can describe how brilliantly written and narrated this book was. laugh, cry I did the lot.

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The perfect read

Fabulous book keeps you interested and makes you want to keep reading I have enjoyed the book

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just wonderful

one of Karen Swans best. lots of little mysteries about each character to be unravelled. charecters are complex. as usual i love the focus on the woman's life and job etc rather than focus being mostly about her feelings towards the love interest. beautifully read. never wanted it to end. really liked the ending. felt female charecter 'rescused' herself and created her own happily ever after rather than the man being the hero

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Irresistible summer listen

Having listened to several Karen Swan books and enjoyed Imogen Church’s reading of other novels I decided to give this a listen. The more I listened the more I struggled to switch this off, listening late into the night. I even looked forward to ironing as I couldn’t walk the dog further to listen to the story...

The prologue sets the scene for Laura and Lillie’s loss and it soon becomes clear that there is more of a mystery and that the main character is hiding something as she is asked to create the ‘perfect present’ for a clients wife. This is not the only secret and at times I felt on edge waiting for the inevitable to happen, but still desperate to know what would happen next. Not as predictable as I first thought, a well paced story.

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Fantastic

So, I have just finished this book, tears are still rolling down my cheeks!!! Amazing, heart warming, intense....I loved it and will miss the characters! I wish I had a friend like Kitty!

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Fantastic story

Great narration, beautiful story, couldn’t put it down. One of her best book, can’t wait for the next one

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Fantastic

First Karen Swan book I’ve listened to. It was recommended by a friend. Fantastic book. I’ve already downloaded another!

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superb!

this was a fabous book. i could not stop listening. loved the twists and turns. this is my 6th Karen Swan book and it definitely did not disappoint. im off to read my 7th x

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