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The Wife Who Ran Away

By: Tess Stimson
Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Laura Kirman, Robert Blackwood, Anna Bentinck, Fred Gaminara, Multiple Narrators
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About this listen

There are some things you can never leave behind… Kate Forrest is invisible...her husband doesn’t seem to know she’s alive and her two children have become stroppy adolescents. With her 40th birthday approaching, Kate walks out of her life, and gets on a plane to Italy. With no responsibilities, she soon finds herself caught up in the arms of a man half her age. But eventually Kate will be forced to choose between her past and the future.

©2012 Tess Stimson (P)2014 W F Howes Ltd Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Italy

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Critic reviews

"A truly compelling story of family ties and secrets." ( Daily Express on The Lying Game)
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Would you listen to The Wife Who Ran Away again? Why?

No, but I never listen to any book twice

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

The ending was too contrived

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No, but it was one I did not mind coming back to

A disappointing end

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Was hooked from the start and it was interesting the whole way through!!! Amazing narration!💯💯👏🏽👏🏽 really enjoyed this book so i will be looking for more from this author for sure💯👏🏽i felt like i was there and could picture every scene so easily in my head, so a huge well done to the author for being able to do that as i loveee when a book does that, but also the narrators helped with this too! Some narrators blow me away and these did! Thank you audible for another amazing book!!! So sad it has ended❤️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💯💯💯💯💯xxxx

Absolutely BRILLIANT!👏🏽💯😁

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Love the book and it was so easy to get into, didn't want it end x bravo x bravo x

Bloody brilliant

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Enjoyed this story and the narration was clear and very good. I would have given it more, but, the description of the sex scenes was crude, clumsy, and uncalled for in the storyline.

Enjoyable,but

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Had read just one previous Tess Stimson book before this one and I must say both were an enjoyable read. Kept me guessing until the end and some good twists...

Enjoyable read...

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