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How It Ends

By: Saskia Sarginson
Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
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Summary

For fans of Maggie O'Farrell and Helen Dunmore, How It Ends is a sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost.... 

1957: within a year of arriving at an American airbase in Suffolk, the loving, law-abiding Delaney family is destroyed. Did they know something they weren't allowed to know? Did they find something they weren't supposed to find? Hedy is the only one left standing, a rebellious girl cast adrift in a world of postwar anxiety - a girl who has the courage to question what really went on behind military closed doors.

Hedy's journey to the truth leads her to read a manuscript that her talented twin brother had started months before he died, a story inspired by an experience in the forest surrounding the airbase perimeter. Only through deciding to finish what her brother started does Hedy begin to piece together what happened to her family.

But would she have continued if she'd known then what she knows now? 

Sometimes, it's safer not to finish what you've started.... 

©2019 Saskia Sarginson (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK

Critic reviews

"Gripping, emotional, utterly engrossing." (Lisa Ballantyne)

Praise for Saskia Sarginson: "Outstandingly good. Part thriller, part love story, I guarantee you will not be able to put it down." (The Sun on The Twins)

"Atmospheric, readable, beautifully evoked." (Sunday Mirror on Without You)

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Excellent and shocking story. Great characters and Had me engrossed from the start. Well narrated

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Décent story - truly awful narration

The story is supposed to be narrated by an English woman and her daughter, brought up in England. But the English accents of the American narrator are truly, truly awful! Even the phrasing used is unconvincing. Why not an English narrator? That would have overcome all of these issues. If you can get past all that, then there is a decently woven tale lurking underneath.

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