Grievance, Christine Bell
Grievance, Christine Bell
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Grievance

Author: Christine Bell

Narrator: Shannon McManus

Unabridged: 6 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 07/01/2017

Synopsis

Winner of the International Thriller Writers Award.Christine Bell’s haunting and suspenseful novel draws readers into the world of a grieving widow stalked by a stranger bent on stealing away everything she has left—even her past.After weathering the first gut-wrenching year since her husband’s death, Lily Declan is trying to move past her grief and find a place of healing for herself and her two young sons.But when a strange sympathy letter arrives, the quiet life Lily has rebuilt from her sorrow comes under stealthy, sinister attack. On her wedding anniversary, an intimate bridal gift is delivered to her door. Then, a bizarre home invasion shatters her sense of security, and a mysterious Facebook memorial appears. Like a hungry ghost, someone seeks to claim her love and loss as their own, to erase Lily from her own life and possess her beloved forever, in an embrace of macabre devotion.As more threats follow, Lily’s home and family are no longer her safe haven, and it’s become difficult to tell friend from foe. But after everything she’s already lost, she won’t give up her memories—or her family—without a fight.

About Christine Bell

Christine Bell’s first novel, Saint, was optioned for a feature film and praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “a brilliant first novel, an extraordinary book.” The Seven Year Atomic Makeover Guide, a short story collection, was described by the New York Times as “accessible, entertaining and infused with the improvisation energies of a writer who refuses to play it safe.” Bell’s next novel, The Perez Family, was made into a film directed by Mira Nair and named Notable Adult Fiction of the Year by both the American Library Association and the New York Public Library, as well as Notable Book of the Year by the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times, who hailed it as “a loud, gaudy sentimental heartbreaker of a book, a triumph.”Bell lives in the Central California Coast area with her husband, writer J. F. Freedman, and their family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kylie

It tried hard this book, it really did, but it didn't ring true and fell a bit flat.......more

Goodreads review by Sam (Clues and Reviews)

Grievance by Christine Bell was sort of an impulse pick I had while browsing through Netgalley one day. A novel marketed as a “haunting and suspenseful (novel) that draws readers into the world of a grieving widow stalked by a stranger bent on stealing away everything she has left- even her past.“ I......more

Goodreads review by AnisaAnne

Grievance is a psychological tale of a personal vendetta towards a grieving widow. Lily is grappling with her first year without her husband Desmond. With her two sons, Sam and Finn, she struggles to keep up with the pace of life. One day she receives a strange letter from one of Des's old flames. S......more

Goodreads review by Kari

Grievance was as random pick from the library. I have very mixed feeling about the story. In the end it was just an OK read for me. In the story, Lily has lost her husband from cancer. It's been almost a year when she notices strange things happening. The one strong thing I can say about the book wa......more

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