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Gracie's Secret
- Narrated by: Alison Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
My dearest daughter, I will never forget the day I nearly lost you. The day you learned the secrets that would tear our lives apart....
Time stops for Jen when her beloved daughter, Gracie, is involved in a terrible car crash. Pronounced dead at the scene, it's a miracle when paramedics manage to then resuscitate the little girl. The relief Jen feels at Gracie's recovery is matched only by her fury at the driver of the car - her ex-husband's new girlfriend, Ella. Jen has never trusted Ella, and now her worst fears have been confirmed.
But then Gracie begins to tell strange stories about what she heard in the car that day and what she saw in those moments near death. It's clear that there's something shocking hidden in Ella's past, but exposing it could tear all their lives apart.
An emotional pause resister that will take your breath away. Perfect for fans of Jodi Picoult, Lisa Wingate, and Kerry Fisher.
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- DEBORAH
- 18-11-18
lovely story though a little slow
A lovely but touching story, very sad at the end, certainly took me by surprise.
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- Dianesr
- 29-07-19
well worth a read
loved the book good twist. The narrator was excellent. I usually fall asleep listening to a audio book but this one kept me interested and awake
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- Helen Rogers
- 20-03-21
Lovely story...
I enjoyed this book. It was beautifully written and the narration was excellent. The esoteric aspects may not be to everyone's taste but just accept the weirdness and you will enjoy the story. Characters are believable and the story kept me gripped all the way through. Thank you.
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- T
- 20-07-18
Brilliant
Fantastic story
Wonderful narration
Kept you listening and not wanting to stop it
Great page turner
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- Treehugger
- 29-10-20
Exciting well written story
I enjoyed this story with its intriguing twists and turns. I love how the lives of the characters weave in and out of one another in the past and present. The author reveals the subtle twists bit by bit until the final plot is revealed. I did guess some of it sooner than she wanted me to, but this didn't detract from the story.
The narrator is very expressive, even to the point of overdoing the emotional voices of the overwrought characters, but this was better than some of the dull, flat narrators I have listened to in the past.
Matt appears in Jenny's life just after her little daughter Gracie is involved in a serious car accident. Jenny, recently separated from her husband, comes across as an incredibly emotionally fragile and vulnerable person, an obsessively smotheringly overprotective mother, even taking into account that Gracie nearly died in the car accident. She has no notion at all of discipline and just lets Gracie do as she wants, so grateful is she that Gracie is alive. She doesn't even seem to relate to her daughter as a proper person, baby-talking down to her in an annoyingly coochy-coo singsong, though Gracie seems mature for her age, with interests, opinions, thoughts of her own and the ability to hold a proper conversation. Jenny disbelievingly dismisses Grace's near death experience of heaven and meeting her dead grandpa as "just a dream". Gracie herself comes across like an obnoxious, disobedient, whiny brat with her irritatingly high pitched squeaky voice. She repeatedly runs away or wriggles out of her mother's arms, no doubt protesting the smothering embrace and lack of understanding of her experiences. One wonders how this kind of overbearing mothering will affect her as she gets older.
I won't reveal what happens as Matt and Jenny become emotionally close, or the final outcome, but it's really a great story.
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- Carole
- 20-08-18
A good read
The narrator was very good. Good read for the summer although wasn't too keen on the ending.
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- Andrea Spencer
- 09-05-20
Great
I loved it, so full of suspence intrigue and a story of a mother's love. Narrator excellent too
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- Jawye
- 16-03-21
Weak
Weak story and The child voice was far too screechy I was disappointed overall -wouldn’t recommend
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- Blackcornish
- 12-08-18
Predictable story with annoying narration
I wish I hadn't bothered, from start to finish the story was so predictable. Gracie doesn't have a secret, I kept listening, in the vain hope that something (other than what I had assumed from paragraph one) would happen. Oh and the narration, dear god, it was like nails scraping on a blackboard, all in all a waste of a credit.
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- Tamito
- 14-03-19
Waste of a credit
So annoyed with this book, I wish I never spent my credit on it. There isn't really a story, the main character waffles on and on about her daughter, nothing really HAPPENS. It is absolutely unbelievable that a child of the age of 3 speaks like this. And the worst of it is that the narrator has an awfully grating voice. So yes, I did not like it.
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