After You Left

Name: After You Left
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Carol Mason
ISBN: 9781536626254

Author: Carol Mason

Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden

Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 04/01/2017

Categories: Fiction, Family Life, Psychological, Women

Synopsis

An Amazon Charts bestseller.You want to know what the worst thing is? It’s not the embarrassment, or the looks on people’s faces when I tell them what happened. It isn’t the pain of him not being there—loneliness is manageable. The worst thing is not knowing why.When Justin walks out on Alice on their honeymoon, with no explanation apart from a cryptic note, Alice is left alone and bewildered, her life in pieces.Then she meets Evelyn, a visitor to the gallery where she works. It’s a seemingly chance encounter, but Alice gradually learns that Evelyn has motives, and a heartbreaking story, of her own. And that story has haunting parallels with Alice’s life.As Alice delves into the mystery of why Justin left her, the questions are obvious. But the answers may lie in the most unlikely of places…

About Carol Mason

Carol Mason was born and grew up in the north-east of England. As a teenager she was crowned Britain's National Smile Princess and since became a model, diplomat-in-training, hotel receptionist and advertising copywriter. She currently lives in British Columbia, Canada, with her Canadian husband.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Megan

This book was very strange and hard to read. There was a husband that walked out on his new wife on their hunnymoon. Then the now Ex-Wife met a new man who fell in love with her. Problem was, he was married too and willing to leave his wife and children! Too Jerry Springer for me. On to the next book......more

Goodreads review by Malia

3.5 stars This book was more or less what I expected given the reviews. It was well written, but the story was a little flat and predictable. Still, this was an easy and ultimately satisfying read. I think what made it fall a little short of great for me was simply that it reminded me so much of many......more

Goodreads review by Nancy

My favorite line: "a person often meets his destiny on the road he took avoiding it." This was such a heart-wrenching story about finding love, losing love and following your heart's desires. It surrounds two women with much more in common than the surface shows. Evelyn is an aged woman who met the "......more

Quotes

“I enjoyed this novel hugely. Wise, thought-provoking, and elegantly written, the parallel stories of Alice and Evelyn explore how we grieve the living every bit as much as the dead. Highly recommended.” —Louise Candlish, bestselling author