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The Best of Times

A compelling bestseller of secrets, hopes - and worlds torn apart

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The Best of Times

By: Penny Vincenzi
Narrated by: Judy Bennett
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A hot summer's day, a crowded motorway, a split second that changed people's lives forever. Gripping, heartbreaking, exciting and unputdownable, this new novel will be one of 2009's biggest and most enjoyable novels - from the irresistible Penny Vincenzi.

(P)2009 Headline Digital©2009 Penny Vincenzi Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction Marriage Heartfelt
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Astute Vincenzi is at her absolute best
A very personal, intimate exploration of goodness and doing the right thing at the right time
An unputdownable novel of hopes and dreams, setbacks and secrets
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So many characters it was confusing and didn't get to know any in depth. Interesting idea but a superficial story that had a predictable happy ending.

OK, easy reading.

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Quite entertaining. Kept on thinking it must have been abridged as (for example) a character would furious with someone & it was hard to know preceding reasons why. Rather superficial. Because author chopping &.changing from character to character & scenario to scenario,before a clear picture of each person had been built in my mind it was difficult to remember who we were talking about now. Was really more a documentation of facts than any in depth build up of people & their own personal worlds & how the accident effected them in a personal way; inside their heads, from their point of view.

OK ish. Bit bland

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So disappointed. Didn’t realise it was abridged version. Read the story years ago - huge book and hugely enjoyable. What a shame especially as so well narrated by Judy Bennett aka Shula from The Archers 👏

Badly abridged

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This book was recommended to me and I’m not sure to do this day whether I typed in the correct title and author- I’m ashamed to say someone I know would actually like this book!
Obvious story line, too many bland stereotypes as cataracts- so many in fact that you end up becoming muddled as to who is who. The only differentiation was the narrators attempt at accents. I say attempts because they too, were poor. The worst of this book however is the writing. Cliche after cliche. One star because I once cried with laughter through a whole chapter at the writing....It’s not meant to be a comedy.

Utterly dire

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Don’t bother with this book. Horrible voices and accents put on by the narrator. Not a lot of depth in the storylines or the characters. Only good thing; it’s in English, not American.

Awful

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