The Woman Who Came Back to Life

Details:

• author: Beth Miller
  
• full title: The Woman Who Came Back to Life
• narrator: Sarah Durham
  
• genre: general fiction, women's fiction
  
• topics: #family #diary #familysecrets
  
• publisher: Bookouture Audio
  
• publish date: 05.01.2022
• timing: 10:02:00
  
  

My Rating of the Audiobook:

• content: 💙💙💙.5
• narration: 💙💙💙💙

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Excerpt from the Book:

I last saw Dad twenty-eight years ago, in 1990. Actually, that's not stricktly true. For the sake of accuracy I should say that 1990 was the last time I almost saw him.

I took the day off from working at the salon, got a train to London, another train out to the coast, then another train to Rye. I hadn't seen him for almost eight years. I planned to show him the letter he had written, force him to look at his pwn words:

Dear Pearl, please don't come, it's inconvinient. Francis.

Not 'Dad'. Francis.

My Thoughts:

Pearl Flowers lives in France in a lovely cottage in the middle of the woods. When her estranged father Francis dies, she learns that she inherited something. Pearl didn’t see her father for over 30 years. So she doesn’t understand why he would leave something to her. It turns out he wanted her to have his secret diaries.

The story is told through 3POVs: Pearl, Carrie, and Pearl father’s diaries. I enjoyed this family drama and the slow revealing of the secrets they had. Although, I sometimes expected a bit more.

The narrator was excellent, and she captured different voices very well. But because there are 3 POVs and the age gap is pretty big, I would expect three different narrators. It would be so much better this way.

About the Author:

I have been told that I write like a tall blonde, so that's how I'd like you to picture me.

I've published six novels. The most recent, which came out in January 2022, is 'The Woman Who Came Back to Life.' I've also published two non-fiction books. I work as a book coach and creative writing tutor.

Before writing books, I did a lot of different jobs. I worked in schools, shops, offices, hospitals, students' unions, basements, from home, in my car, and up a tree. OK, not up a tree. I've been a sexual health trainer, a journalist, a psychology lecturer, a PhD student, a lousy alcohol counsellor, and an inept audio-typist. I sold pens, bread, and condoms. Not in the same shop. I taught parents how to tell if their teenagers are taking drugs (clue: they act like teenagers), and taught teenagers how to put on condoms (clue: there won't really be a cucumber). I taught rabbis how to tell if their teenagers are druggedly putting condoms on cucumbers.

Throughout this, I always wrote, and always drank a lot of tea. I'm now pretty much unbeatable at drinking tea.