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After Before

By: Jemma Wayne
Narrated by: Anna-Marie Wayne
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Summary

During a cold, British winter, three women reach crisis point.

Emily, an immigrant survivor of the Rwandan genocide, is existing but not living. Vera, a Christian Londoner, is striving to live a moral life, undermined by secrets from her past. Lynn, battling a disease, is consumed by resentment of what she hasn't achieved.

Each suffers her own demons. But as their paths interweave, they begin to unravel their pasts, and change each other's futures.
©2014 Jemma Wayne (P)2014 W F Howes Ltd
Literary Fiction Women's Fiction
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A fearless and meticulously observed examination of pain transformed by the redeeming power of friendship' VANORA BENNETT
'Rich, haunted, gripping, painful and beautifully entwined' RUTH PADEL

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Great imagery but disappointing ending!

Probably not clever enough to appreciate subtlety or draw my own conclusions, but found the story ended abruptly and I was left wondering about the loose ends. What I call an unsatisfactory ending. Apart from that, very well written, with some vivid imagery; some of it so vivid that it was difficult to cope with at times but presumably factually based and these things need to be graphically described.

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