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Heatstroke
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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Summary
Do you remember the summer that changed everything?
Rachel and her daughter never had secrets. Until now.
Lily is somewhere she shouldn't be. With someone she shouldn't be with.
Mia misses her best friend. But she let her down.
In the middle of a stifling heatwave, the three of them stand on the edge of irrevocable change. By the end, one burning question will remain... how could she let things go this far?
For fans of Zoe Heller, Emma Cline, Expectation and My Dark Vanessa.
Critic reviews
"Painfully real, and so beautifully written I wanted to stay within its pages forever." (Clare Mackintosh)
"Stylish and sensual." (Kiran Millwood Hargrave)
"A thrilling look at mothers and daughters, adolescence, sex, suburbia and secrets." (Nell Frizzell)
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- Naturalorganichealthandbeauty
- 11-07-20
Disappointing
Thought it would amount to something that made me gasp. But it kind of just ended. Beautifully written and the narrator was perfect for it. But disappointed.
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- Gerard
- 31-07-20
Pointless?
One vaguely clever device in the telling but overall a tale barely worth recounting. Perhaps I am missing something, and I may well be, but .... I ended this audiobook with a shrug. It’s difficult to feel invested in the characters. Mother and daughter seem thin, unlikely and unlikeable. The central drama feels weak, amounting to little of anything worthwhile in the end. A disappointment.
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- Hertsgirl
- 29-07-20
Narrator :(
Really don’t like that slow forced reading voice. Wish I could return this but it was already an exchange. Won’t be finishing it :(. Couldn’t get past 2nd chapter
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- ula
- 18-06-20
Interesting idea badly read and written
I don't know whether I am going to finish this book or will get too irritated and return it however from what i can say so far:
- the plot could be good - the idea interests me however I haven't listened the whole thing yet and most likely will not be attempting to
- the narrator is super annoying, taking pauses in all the wrong places
- it is def. not beautifully written. I think it aspires to be but it feels somehow overbaked with too many adjectives actually sounds forced and contrived (or maybe it is just the narrator that doesn't make this book any favours?)
- too many 'Mias'!! 'Mia this' and 'Mia that'. I understand this is one of the main characters here but there are ways of replacing the name with other nouns to avoid repetition
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