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This Book Will Save Your Life

By: A. M. Homes
Narrated by: Richard Poe
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About this listen

 A Richard and Judy Book Club selection.

Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain. At the same time a wide hole appears outside his living room window, threatening the foundations of his house.

©2006 A. M. Homes (P)2007 Recorded Books, LLC Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction

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A Richard and Judy Book Club selection.

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I read this a few years back and decided to reread. It is absolutely memorising. This book will save your life.

Modern classic

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it was good. didn't change my life much. A b c d e t g

it was good

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Did not warm to the characters, or care about their journey. Book Club made me!

In -credible

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I thing this was a bit of a hopeful requiem for a world Homes would like to live in. It was a story about redemption and second chances. A story for the mostly hopeless and minorly hopeful that real and enduring change is possible. It was a tender and warm story about trying again and awakening and I really really liked it. It was delivered with humor, irony (where necessary) and without a trace of schmaltz...considering it was a totally feel good story ultimately. It was really hopeful and inspiring too and probably has the power to change the lives of a few people who read it. It's power is that there is a really good message disguised in a engrossing, realistic, funny story.

lovely, tender, unusual, heatfelt, warm

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I love this book. So fantastic to watch as the main characters life unravels he’s more and more alive. The reader is great too. Sometimes when I’ve read a book listening isn’t enjoyable but this was fantastic. I’ve listened twice. Will probably listen again!

I love this book.

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