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The Girls from Corona del Mar

By: Rufi Thorpe
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
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Longlisted for the 2014 Dylan Thomas Prize.

Mia and Lorrie Ann are lifelong friends: hard-hearted Mia and untouchably beautiful, kind Lorrie Ann. While Mia struggles with a mother who drinks, a pregnancy at 15, and younger brothers she loves but can't quite be good to, Lorrie Ann is luminous, surrounded by her close-knit family, immune to the mistakes that mar her best friend's life.

Until a sudden loss catapults Lorrie Ann into tragedy: things fall apart and then fall apart further - and there is nothing Mia can do to help. And as good, kind, brave Lorrie Ann stops being so good, Mia begins to question just who this woman is and what that question means about them both.

A staggeringly arresting, honest novel of love, motherhood, loyalty, and the myth of the perfect friendship that moves us to ask ourselves just how well we know those we love, what we owe our children and who we are without our friends.

©2016 Rufi Thorpe (P)2016 Random House AudioBooks Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Heartfelt Friendship

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I really enjoyed reading this book and highly recommend this to everyone .. an emotional roller coaster

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It has taken me 3 attempts to listen to this book. Now that I have finish Im glad I kept trying. Its a lovely story of the two girls and how there lives planned out and the struggles which it can throw at you.

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I'm so glad I read this AFTER Margo's Got Money Trouble by the same author. Margo is a work of complete genius. Clearly Thorpe's writing improved a million fold after this incredibly tedious, depressing and turgid novel. It's not helped by the breathy, pleading reading that sounds like a drunk lover begging to be taken back at four o' clock in the morning. Whining, begging, desperate sounding. But the book would be dreadful anyway. Stopped at two thirds of the way through. Just couldn't take any more and clearly nothing was going to redeem it.

Painfully Boring

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