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Title: The Missing Pieces of Us
Author: Fleur McDonald
Narrator: Anna Hruby
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-01-17
Publisher: Wavesound Audio
Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit
Publisher's Summary:
Lauren Ramsey is so concerned about the welfare of a boy in her kindy class, she doesn't realise her own daughter, Skye, needs help.
At 14 Skye finds the only person who will listen to her problems is Tamara Thompson, the manager of her favourite clothes shop.
Tamara knows what it's like to be a troubled teen, and despite her successful career and loving partner, her sense of worthlessness still threatens to overwhelm her....
Sometimes you have to resolve the past before you can face the future.
Members Reviews:
Great.
Great book, enjoyed it.
I really enjoyed this book. We know what it is like to await the results every 3 months.IT is no fun for anyone to be waiting so the book was good good in that regard. I enjoyed the way you chose to bring the families together, in a sad but happy way.
I would recommend tnis book for any 14 yearold up, still reading or listing on their talking books. Just a good book.
Five Stars
Well worth reading, well done again on another fabulous book.
An enjoyable read
4.5 stars
The Missing Pieces of Us is the ninth novel by Australian author, Fleur McDonald. Sometimes fourteen-year-old Skye Ramsey wonders if she is adopted: her mother is always on her case, and from the way her parents favour her older brother Stu (their Golden Boy) over her, itâs obvious they never really wanted her. Thank goodness for Billy Gaston! Billy is seventeen and, though some of the photos he sends on Snapchat are a bit daring, she knows he loves her.
Skyeâs mother, Lauren knows she is adopted, has always known. She had a wonderful childhood and couldnât have wished for better adoptive parents than George and Connie Jenkins. Which is why sheâs hesitant about seeking out her birth mother: she wonât risk upsetting the only parents sheâs ever known. She wishes Skye would snap out of this recent moodiness, but is lately distracted by one of her kindergarten pupils whose health and behavioural changes have her worried.
Tamara Thompson hasnât seen her parents for twenty-seven years, and is still recovering from the effects of her childhood with a critical, demanding father and a weak mother. She battles insecurity and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder daily, and wonders why Craig sticks around when her flaws are so plain to see. When her mother turns up out of the blue, she knows it canât be good.
Three main narrators to tell the bulk of this tale, while a minor narrator gives another perspective later in the story, and a diary written by an anonymous girl adds intrigue. As the bones of the story are fleshed out and the who and why become clear, McDonaldâs characters face realistic challenges, grow and develop. If the final outcome is perhaps somewhat predictable, it does not make the realisation of it any less satisfying.
McDonald easily conveys Perth and surrounds, and the residents of the lovely Gooseberry Hill will be pleased that their suburb stars in this novel. McDonald touches on issues both topical and timeless, including bullying, the pitfalls of social media and peer pressure, grief, fear of diagnosis, forced adoptions and the dilemma of seeking out birth parents, the importance of sun protection and the dangers of melanoma. An enjoyable read.
With thanks to GoodReads and Allen & Unwin for this copy to read and review.
