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Saving Missy
- Narrated by: Harriet Walter
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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Summary
*The Sunday Times bestseller*
Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find where you truly belong…
Seventy-nine is too late for a second chance. Isn’t it?
Missy Carmichael is prickly, stubborn – and terribly lonely. Until a chance encounter in the park with two very different women opens the door to something new. Something wonderful.
Missy was used to her small, solitary existence, listening to her footsteps echoing around the empty house, the tick-tick-tick of the watching clock. After all, she had made her life her way.
Now another life is beckoning to Missy – if she’s brave enough…
‘A touching, deftly written debut that celebrates community and kindness’ Sunday Times
‘Moving and optimistic… will delight readers right up to the very last page’ Stylist
A Sunday Times #6 hardback bestseller w/e 15th Feb
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"Bittersweet, tender, thoughtful and uplifting. Reminds you that everyone deserves a second chance. I loved it." (Nina Stibbe, author of Reasons to be Cheerful)
"A beautiful story about love, loss, guilt and the power of friendship." (Jill Mansell, author of Maybe This Time)
"The most beautiful and moving book I’ve read in a long time." (Emma Flint, author of Little Deaths)
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- Jill
- 21-02-21
Wonderful Story
Loved every minute of Saving Missy. The story is brilliant with a final twist and the narration is just right with each character subtle and perfect.
Highly recommended!
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- magda flores
- 20-02-20
Brilliant
i had this on pre-order and it was worth the wait. I loved this book. Geat narration and characters. Highly recommended!
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- Caroline
- 27-11-21
A wonderful heart warming book!
What a fantastic story - happy, sad, funny just full of different emotions! Definitely recommend.
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- Mary K
- 14-11-21
Another must listen
A testament to people's kindness and the brighter side of human nature. A good mix of sadness and happiness.
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- cathy
- 18-02-22
A moving tale of love, loss, friendship and hope
I loved this book and highly recommend it. The narration is superb. In its pages you'll find humanity, sacrifice, struggle and salvation.
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- Sigrin
- 07-10-20
Missy, does not miss out.
I note someone reviewed this book and said it was trying to be a Joanna Cannon or Emma Healey book in an Eleanor Oliphant style.
Firstly I would like to say that Emma Healeys Elizabeth is missing and Eleanor Oliphant are marvelous books dealing sensitively with Alzheimer’s and the autistic spectrum respectively.
Joanne Cannon I know has her fans but for me she is trying too hard to please the masses.
This book Saving Missy is so different than the above, it is about an elderly lady who is primarily lonely, her grown up children are getting on with their lives now. She gave up a promising career for her husband and children and yes I suppose she is a bit spikey around the edges.
What is different is that Missy reflects on her past which the book beautifully weaves back and forth over time and another story is told. Missy in her dotage réalisés she wants to be part of life again but feels she will just get in the way or bring little to others lives which is unfortunately what quite a few elderly people feel.
The book is full of warmth and looks frankly and humerously at our stereotypes of single mums, the elderly, lesbians,homosexuals and the misfits of society and how they are all part of a puzzle that would not be a whole community if they were not all in it.
The book is gentle and easy to listen to and full of charm.
Lastly the narration by Harriet Walker is exceptional, her breadth of voices male,female, young and old with various régional dialects is outstanding and took this book to a whole new level.
Thoroughly recommend.
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- Dulcie Ann Robertson
- 01-12-20
Beautiful, funny and touching! Brilliant narrator
Loved it! This book is so uplifting and big hearted, but not at all twee. The author handles old age and loneliness with such sensitivity and compassion, you can't help but fall in love with Missy - and see yourself in her.
However, what really makes this audiobook is the narrator. She is by far the best I've heard on Audible - her character voices were effortless, the acting was utterly convincing, and her sensitivity to the language was perfect every time. I wish I could give her a separate review because honestly, what a performance!
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-05-21
Memorable forever, I think
I won't forget this book for a long time. Millicent, you aren't too keen on her first and then she grows on you gradually as the story unfolds.
I've laughed a few times but I really did cry at a certain point. I wouldn't say as that would really spoil things
However give this book a try, you won't regret it
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- Michele
- 30-09-21
Great Read
I loved this book, lovely narration & I want to go to Sylvies for dinner
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- SusanE
- 10-03-20
Charming book
Thoroughly enjoyed this book, a charming book with perfect narration. Heartily recommend you listen to it!
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