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Title: The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes
Author: Anna McPartlin
Narrator: Caroline Lennon
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-06-14
Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Rabbit Hayes loves her life, ordinary as it is, and the extraordinary people in it. She loves her spirited daughter, Juliet; her colourful, unruly family; the only man in her big heart, Johnny Faye. But it turns out the world has other plans for Rabbit, and she's OK with that. Because she has plans for the world too, and only a handful of days left to make them happen.
Critic Reviews:
"What a beautiful book. I cried and smiled my way through" Jane Green
Members Reviews:
What a fab story
A difficult subject matter, but what a fab read. I laughed and cried in equal measure, everybody will be able to relate to this book on some level, I did.
superb
What did you like most about The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes?
took a difficult subject and created a beautiful story
What did you like best about this story?
the way the book was constructed
What about Caroline Lennons performance did you like?
her range of voices
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
made me sad at the end but in appositive way
Any additional comments?
Heard Simon Mayo interview with Anna.After a chapter of thinking will I like this getting to know the characters it just got better and better.The final scene which I am sure you can imagine was very cleverly written
A little too 'nice' for a dying of cancer novel
Any additional comments?
First - the worst thing about this book is its ending which is sickly as a kitten playing with candy floss. Twee, twee, twee and utterly irritating.
The rest of it was 'okish' but I did wonder why the authors main knowledge of cancer seemed to be 'breakthough pain' which becomes a kind of mantra as Rabbit moves towards her inevitable end.
Me, I don't think I'd cope with dying young as well as Rabbit seems to be and I would have liked more of the darkness that surely would infiltrate her interior world.
For fans of Mrs Brown's Boys only
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
This book had so much potential. Who doesn't want to have their heart wrenched by the tale of a plucky dying woman and her broken-hearted family who managed to retain their earthy sense of humours with the struggles of trying to come to terms with the loss of their much loved daughter, sister and mother? I cried during the opening paragraphs and was sure that I would love this book. But oh dear, this wore thin pretty quickly as the characters in the book reverted to caricatures and the story line descended into mawkish, saccharine sentimentality, albeit punctuated with some truly fabulous swearing. The prose was clunky and dull, with lots of non-events described in tedious detail and rambling dialogue which just went nowhere. The family members, apart from our doomed heroine, were just too colourful (and I'm not referencing their swearing) to be real. I only stuck with the book because I had a mild curiosity as to what would happen to Rabbit's daughter after her demise. The closing paragraphs made me cry in the same way that the opening ones did.
