Before I Met You
A Novel
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Helen Duff
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Lisa Jewell
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After her grandmother Arlette's death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends, summer jobs - all the usual preoccupations of a woman her age - in order to care for Arlette. Now she's ready for whatever life throws at her, and, since the will included a beneficiary unknown to her who lives in the city, she heads there to find the mysterious woman....
In 1920s London, Arlette is starting her new life in a time of postwar change. Beautiful and charismatic, she's drawn into a hedonistic world, but then tragedy strikes, and she flees back to her childhood home....
When Betty's search leads her to a man - someone who meant the world to her grandmother - the secrets of Arlette's past may help Betty find her own way to happiness in the present....
A rich detective story and a captivating look at London then and now, Before I Met You is an unforgettable novel about two very different women, separated by 70 years but united by big hearts and even bigger dreams.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-01-22
Beautiful story would make a good movie
It took me a little while to get used to the voices variation but it was worth the wait the only thing that bugged me a bit was the « he said she said » when it’s obvious who’s talking. But hey I loved it anyway
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- Kendyra C.
- 2023-05-27
What an unpredictable ending
Great story. So many twists and turns, sadness, happy moments and full of mystery and intrigue. I love a good London story and the accents. This story was very unique and loved how genuine the 1920’s felt. The characters were so believable; their voices and descriptions made me feel like I would recognize them on the street if I ran into them. Couldn’t stop listening- finished the 15 hour book in 3 days!
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- Karen Langhor
- 2019-12-18
loved it!
the story was great and the narrator has an amazing voice, very well done, I recommend it .
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- Bev Lumax
- 2022-08-21
Wonderful Story
Great story. The transition between time periods was well done.The narration was vexcellent.
I will be looking for more books from this author...and narrator.
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- Shannon McNamara
- 2020-04-12
Mesmerizing
This is my favourite book so far from Lisa Jewel. I loved the characters and the story: of how the past and the present came together. I was sad to finish as I truly loved this story.
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- Chris&Krista
- 2022-07-28
Adored this book!
I loved this book in its entirety.
The story is just phenomenal and touching.
If you’re considering this as a read, think no more - grab it and start!!
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- Jane Fox
- 2019-06-17
Full of twists and turns
I love the story. I thought I had it all figured out but very surprised with ending. Now off to listen to another Lisa Jewell novel.
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- Julie
- 2020-06-29
Loved this audiobook!
I loved this story. Wonderful plot and many exciting storylines all balled into one. Sad, happy and even tragic at times. The main character was very likeable. I loved the narrators voice and wasn’t even sure that it was her doing all of the other characters voices. I found a couple of the voices didn’t match what I pictured the character to be like, but one can only do so many different voices so wasn’t hard to still very much enjoy the narration. I was sad for the story to end.
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- R. S.
- 2022-04-22
Slow, but worthwhile
It took me a long time to get into the story. However, I did thoroughly enjoy it in the end.
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- nmarie
- 2019-12-13
Great book, terrible narrator.
Book was lovely. Really sweet story. Easy listen.
Accents were terrible, voices, except the main character were awful. Absolutely appalling actually. Really a shameful thing to do the book.
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