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The Summer of Impossible Things

By: Rowan Coleman
Narrated by: Imogen Church
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Summary

Thirty years ago something terrible happened to Luna's mother. Something she's prepared to reveal only after her death.

In settling her mother's affairs, Luna finds more questions than answers, until something impossible and magical happens....

Luna meets her mother as a young woman back in the summer of 1977. If she can truly travel back in time, she can change things. But in order to save her mother's life, will she have to sacrifice her own?

©2017 Rowan Coleman (P)2017 W. F. Howes Ltd Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Urban Women's Fiction Heartfelt Feel-Good

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"It's so lovely to find an author you love." (Marian Keyes, best-selling author of The Woman Who Stole My Life)
"Beautiful." (Jodi Picoult, best-selling author of The Storyteller)
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If you’ve ever watched the 1985 film “Back to the Future” starring Michael J Fox, then you’ll probably recognise the basis of the plot of this story. From the changing of past events impacting on photographs right through to a thunder & lightening storm at a set date & time that will reset past with future. Just put Lunar into the character of Marty and you’ll be set. A bit slow to get going but if you can stick with it to chapter 7 the story picks up and does get pretty interesting with its modern take on this older film. Narration also takes a while to settle into believable characters but it’s a shame the sound quality wasn’t great, either too soft to hear properly or too loud - not a good book to listen to on Alexa. Quite a long book, a bit repetitive in parts and slow in others, but if you can stick with it until the end, it’s not a bad story. If you’re not open to the idea of time travel, don’t bother reading this!

A modern take on the film “Back to the Future”

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An interesting concept and lovely characterisations in an intriguing story. Narrator mostly clear, but dropped to whispers sometimes.

Impossibly Enjoyable

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I really enjoyed this book, it was "different" and the narrator Imogen Church was excellent.

Unusual, a proper tale for grown ups

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Enjoy this and was curious to find the ending. a little repetitive and sometimes found myself shouting at it to get on with it.

a bit repetitive but overall a good listen

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It's a intetesting idea but the story is too slow, got bored waiting for it to end

Nice idea but really slow

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