Before I Met You

Name: Before I Met You
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Lisa Jewell
ISBN: 9781974904020

Author: Lisa Jewell

Narrator: Helen Duff

Unabridged: 15 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 08/07/2018

Categories: Fiction, Women

Synopsis

After her grandmother Arlette's death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends, summer jobs-all the usual preoccupations of a woman her age-in order to care for Arlette. Now she's ready for whatever life throws at her, and, since the will included a beneficiary unknown to her who lives in the city, she heads there to find the mysterious woman... In 1920s London, Arlette is starting her new life in a time of postwar change. Beautiful and charismatic, she's drawn into a hedonistic world, but then tragedy strikes, and she flees back to her childhood home... When Betty's search leads her to a man-someone who meant the world to her grandmother-the secrets of Arlette's past may help Betty find her own way to happiness in the present... A rich detective story and a captivating look at London then and now, Before I Met You is an unforgettable novel about two very different women, separated by seventy years but united by big hearts and even bigger dreams.

About Lisa Jewell

How often does an author begin their career by a challenge? That is exactly how British author, Lisa Jewell began her writing career. Her friend, Yasmin Boland, challenged her to write three chapters of a novel, and she would reward her with dinner at her favorite restaurant. The challenge was met, and Jewell turned those chapters into her first novel, Ralph's Party. It became the UK's bestselling first novel in 1999.

Jewell attended grammar school, but left in the sixth form, to use an art foundation scholarship at Barnet College, followed by a degree in fashion design from Epsom School of Art and Design. She worked in the fashion side of retail for several years in British Warehouse and Thomas Pink.

Lisa Jewell is considered one of the most popular authors in the UK today, with seventeen novels in her portfolio of work. She is also an internationally known and bestselling author with over two million sold in English-speaking countries alone, let alone being translated into twenty-five languages.

Among her novels are: Ralph's Party, Thirtynothing, After the Party, Then She Was Gone, The House We Grew Up In, and The Girls in the Garden. She resides in London with her husband, and two daughters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on April 09, 2022

Before I Met You is an early Lisa Jewell novel that focuses on the bittersweet moments in a woman's life: falling in love, losing the person you treasure the most, finding a different kind of happiness, longing for children, and looking back at your life as you approach your final days. Jewell is al......more

Goodreads review by Ninoska on August 18, 2022

English - Español Elizabeth (Betty) had given up everything to care for her step-grandmother Arlette until her death. Arlette was a very picturesque person in her way of dressing, she did not appreciate her only son, but from the first moment she saw Betty she assumed her as a friend, granddaughter,......more

Goodreads review by Ninoska on August 18, 2022

Goodreads review by Melissa (Semi-hiatus for Work) on March 22, 2021

Cleaning off the older titles from my list... This is kind of a bridge book for Jewell. Not chick lit/women's fiction like her earlier titles, yet not a thriller like her more current books. This is a dual timeline novel with Betty in the 1990s and Arlette in the past. While I was interested to find o......more

Goodreads review by Tara on October 02, 2013

I bailed at 72%. I just really hated this book and its heroines. I will give it points for keeping me intrigued. After all, I kept plunging along even though I disliked its heroines. I kept thinking, "Well, I want to know what happened" even after I figured out who the mysterious Pickle lady was. It......more