Second Best, David Foenkinos
Second Best, David Foenkinos
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Second Best

Author: David Foenkinos, Megan Jones

Narrator: Joe Thomas

Unabridged: 5 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/16/2024


Synopsis

'It's about time British readers discovered the wit and originality of David Foenkinos' Jonathan Coe, author of Bournville

A magical imagining of the fate of a fictional boy whose life is shaped forever when he loses out on the role of Harry Potter.

It's 1999. Martin Hill is ten years old, crazy about Arsenal and has a minor crush on a girl named Betty. Then he makes it to the final two in the casting for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

In the end, the other boy is picked for the role of a lifetime. A devastated Martin tries to move on with his life. But how can he escape his failure, especially when it's the most famous film series in the world?

Foenkinos's smash hit Second Best is a playful, poignant story about fate, loss, and how the lives we wish we'd led might not be all they're cracked up to be . . .

About David Foenkinos

David Foenkinos is the author of seventeen novels which have been translated into forty languages. His novel Delicacy was made into a film starring Audrey Tautou (2011). He received the 2014 Prix Renaudot and Prix Goncourt des lyceens for Charlotte.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Suz on January 27, 2021

Emma finds herself in the most bizarre situation. She has a son in school and a toddler. Her husband also has a toddler the same age – with the woman he left her to be with. Emma ends up at their beck and call, babysitting a LOT and even worse, taking her to ballet, swimming and French classes! Her......more

Goodreads review by Brooke - One Woman's Brief Book Reviews on February 22, 2019

*www.onewomansbbr.wordpress.com *www.facebook.com/onewomansbbr **4.5 stars** How To Be Second Best by Jessica Dettmann. (2019). Emma has just given birth to her second child when she finds out her husband has also just fathered a newborn with another woman. Things get tricky fast when he leaves her for......more

Goodreads review by Bianca on January 31, 2019

4.5 stars How to Be Second Best is a bubbly, delightful novel about Emma, a divorced mother of two, who also minds and looks after her ex-husband's and his new wife's toddler. Emma and her ex live in houses on the same street. Emma knows that she's taken advantage of, especially as she seems to mind......more

Goodreads review by Lee at ReadWriteWish on January 03, 2019

I haven’t read a decent chick lit for a while but I’ve kick started the year with this excellent little debut novel by Aussie Jessica Dettmann. The book is written in the first person point of view of Emma, a recently divorced mother of two. For the man-did-her-wrong plot, Emma’s ex, Troy, has a dau......more