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Titre: Pas pleurer

Auteur: Lydie Salvayre

Narrateur: Marie-Christine Letort

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 6 hrs and 23 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 06-02-15

Éditeur: Sixtrid

Evaluation: 4.5 sur 5 sur 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Deux voix entrelacées. Celle, révoltée, de Bernanos, témoin direct de la guerre civile espagnole, qui dénonce la terreur exercée par les Nationaux avec la bénédiction de l'Église contre "les mauvais pauvres". Celle, roborative, de Montse, mère de la narratrice et "mauvaise pauvre", qui a tout gommé de sa mémoire, hormis les jours enchantés de l'insurrection libertaire par laquelle s'ouvrit la guerre de 36 dans certaines régions d'Espagne, des jours qui comptèrent parmi les plus intenses de sa vie.

Deux paroles, deux visions qui résonnent étrangement avec notre présent et qui font apparaître l'art romanesque de Lydie Salvayre dans toute sa force, entre violence et légèreté, entre brutalité et finesse, porté par une prose tantôt impeccable, tantôt joyeusement malmenée.

©2014 Editions du Seuil (P)2015 Sixtrid SAS

Revues par les critiques:

La presse en parle :

"Une fresque familiale épique et brûlante"

Emily Barnett, Les Inrockuptibles

"C'est l'Espagne rurale d'avant Franco que Lydie Salvayre fait revivre, dans un foisonnant panégyrique, volontiers drôle, nécessairement tragique."

Fanny Taillandier, Livres Hebdo

À propos de ce titre

Prix Goncourt 2014.

Avis des membres:

Three Stars

Vous avez intért à connatre l'espagnol pour apprécier le livre!

Je ne comprends pas comment ce livre a pu décrocher ...

Je ne comprends pas comment ce livre a pu décrocher le prix Goncourt. C'est mal ficelé peu crédible. De plus il y a de nombreux passages en espagnol ou en mauvais franais teinté d'espagnol.

Conclusion à ne lire que si on connat cette langue

Un comble pour un prix de littérature franaise.

La beauté à travers l'horreur

This is a pearl it is a beautiful book about a very sad period in the life of the Spanish people. The beauty of the book is in the way this period is described. It is told through the eyes of Montse the main protagonist, who lived this era and now is in her 90 and has Alzheimer's. Her memories are so vivid and in a way full of love and joy in spite of the misery of the time. Montse tell the story to her daughter, a great French writer, the writer did not alterate the vocabulary of her mother who suffering from Alzheimer's she mixes French and Spanish and also uses vocabulary that could appear vulgar but kwowing the reason it is sweet. The writer respects her mothers way of remembering this important phase of her life. What I appreciate also is that the book is not so crude in talking about the terrible events. What make the book beautiful also is the personnalités of the protagonist, she is a lovely loving woman, so positive

Un livre magnifique dans lequel l'horreur accompagne la poésie, ...

Un livre magnifique dans lequel l'horreur accompagne la poésie, les espoirs et les désillusions...un livre qui n'a pas dâge tant les misères, lchetés et désirs de l'me humains sont elles-mme intemporelles.

beautiful

Great read: touching, sometimes funny, and always vibrantly authentic.

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Title: My Struggle, Book 3

Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-28-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 155 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A family of four - mother, father, and two boys - move to the south coast of Norway, to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory is upwardly mobile: The future seems limitless.

In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Karl Ove Knausgaard paints a world familiar to anyone who can recall the intensity and novelty of childhood experience, one in which children and adults lead parallel lives that never meet. Perhaps the most Proustian in the series, My Struggle: Book 3 gives us Knausgaard's vivid, technicolor recollections of childhood, his emerging self-understanding, and the multilayered nature of time's passing, memory, and existence.

Members Reviews:

Standing in the Twilight with Time

"Time never goes as fast as in your childhood; an hour is never as short as it was then. Everything is open, you fun here, you run there, do one thing, then another, and suddenly the sun has gone down and you find yourself standing in the twilight with time like a barrier that has suddenly gone down in front of you:"

-- Karl Ove Knausgrd, My Struggle: Book Three: Boyhood Island

descriptionThere is something mundane and otherworldly about Knausgrd's third book. It exists on the island of Tromy, a large island (relatively) on the South Eastern tip of Norway. His hard-ass father teaches and his distracted mother works in a sanitarium. He is surrounded by friends, family, an older brother, and anxiety and curiosity. In many ways it is an honest look at middle childhood, those awkward years that start just before puberty and end a couple years after puberty. The magic of Knausgrd's quasi-fictional memoir is his brutal openness. He isn't afraid to write down his most awkward sexual experiences as a boy or young man. He spends a lot of time discussing his weaknesses and his idiosyncrasies, but while Knausgrd himself might be the primary character and narrator, he is haunted by the shadow of his father. You can see how the fear and anxiety created by his father impacts both Karl Ove and his brother. His father is both a storm that blows his boys, or a maelström that constantly threatens to suck them in. I think this characterization fits, because so many times, as the boys sat in the house alone waiting for their father to arrive the tension felt like a ship anticipating a storm; darkness would defend and a hard madness would hit and then, just as fast, disappear. The prose was beautiful, and in parts, seemed heavy enough to bleed the heavy, dark prose straight through the thick pages of the archipelago book.

Astonishing

Have read (and/or listened) to all four available now. This was the best so far.

Stunning !

Book three just blew all my expectations away ..

Stunning childhood recollection and with all we know from book 1and 2 makes it all so complete .. Every breath, every step and thought .. Poetry in motion !

Amazing "struggle"

Waiting for books 5&6!

Excellent in every way. This was maybe the best one so far. But the elliptical nature of the narrative makes it hard and unnecessary to judge.

The early life of Karl Ove

This one should be his first book, but he has a great editor and decide this one will be his 3 book, because the 1 and the 2 book are the ones hook you in his series. In my opinion is a great writer, better than Gabriel Garcia Marquez that for me the only book I love from him is Love in the time of Cholera.

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Title: The Buried Giant

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrator: David Horovitch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-15

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 59 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at last the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased.

The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards--some strange and otherworldly--but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another.

Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.

Members Reviews:

Exceptional

This book was dreamy and magical, with a light, deliberate pace. I don't think I understood all of the story's elements and themes, but I enjoyed it very much. It's really a love story.

A book to treasure, a story to return to.

A masterful performance of a skillfully crafted story, rich in purpose and imagery. There is a compelling beauty in this universal theme of remembering and forgetting, of a personal quest and the soul's essential journey.

Can heroes or love survive the truth?

A strange beautiful book, that hides within a medieval fantasy, themes that reverberate with today's dilemmas of forgotten wars, deceiving clergy, and the very nature of heroism and love surviving the truth. At no point is this book blunt or gory, nor is it sweetly romantic or full of magical spells just a dream within a dream, that envelops even the reader, and creates images that are hard to dispel.

King Arthur is dead, some of his Knights are alive but are now old men, Britons and Saxons live in relative peace, a mist of forgetfulness cover the county where ogres and dragons still exist, this mist envelops the very story with all kinds of insinuations and perils, the main characters a couple that travel looking for their lost memories and a son that they claim awaits them, she is an old woman, named Beatrice a name laden with meaning and possibility in literature, for she is the guide in Paradiso and Purgatory In the Divine Comedy, her name means beatific vision, that means seeing God finally face to face and not imperfectly through faith. With her travels her husband and older man Axl his name is more distant in meaning, but for a small give-away he refers to Beatrice as princes, Axël is a drama by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam about a Byronic hero with a Germanic princes, they speak of the amazing journeys never completed unlike in this story.

By now you begin to see that this book is reach and allegorical, full of hidden and and palpable minings. That develop in a dream like state, you meet a hero and within a few pages he reveals a side to himself that is tainted and dark; even the forgetfulness is a double sided blade; and the narrative voice hides mystery and meaning.

It will probably take me a long time to digest this book properly, and I will more than likely change my mind about some of these conclusions, but that is half the fun.

The reader of the story in perfect and maintains a cadence that to my ears is complementary to the story.

Hmmmm

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

I'm still mulling over what I feel having finished The Buried Giant.

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Title: An Absent Mind

Author: Eric Rill

Narrator: Sandra Burr, Mel Foster

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-17-15

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 232 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Seventy-one and a man used to controlling those around him, Saul finds himself slipping into what he describes as his slow dance with death.

His ramblings, humor, emotions, lucid moments, and confusion are laid bare as well as the thoughts and feelings of his loved ones: his wife, Monique, conflicted and depressed, caring yet angry; his daughter, Florence, compassionate yet proper and reserved; his son, Joey, self-centered and narcissistic, seemingly indifferent to his family's challenges; and his doctor, an Alzheimer's specialist who cares for Saul until his final days.

From the beginning Saul and his family know how it has to end because no one has ever outsmarted Alzheimer's. But as they navigate the meandering road that will eventually bring Saul's demise, they leave behind their once disconnected lives and come together to weather their difficult journey.

Heartfelt and moving, this lauded novel, winner of 2014 gold medals from the Independent Publisher Book Awards, Readers' Favorite Book Awards, and the Living Now Book Award for Inspirational Fiction, will appeal to fans of Lisa Genova's Still Alice or Nicholas Sparks' The Notebook.

Members Reviews:

Ambitious but Falls Short

I think "An Absent Mind" tries a little too hard and goes too many places with too little focus. The character's emotions and personality traits are all over the map, they are who they are, either gracious or resentful with little rhyme or reason and it gets annoying. You can't really care for any of them. Alzheimer's was presented well enough with the long term memory being far more readily apparent than short term, but it seemed to cause the family more annoyance than agony. As someone who has it in the family right now, I've gotta say, I was expecting a lot more.

Maybe to those unschooled and just looking for a light read/listen, this'll be good enough, but really, I don't think the character's are developed enough to carry the 4+ hours, short as they may be. Unpopular, maybe, but there you go. My two cents.

Further, the performances are downright annoying. Maybe a daily deal or something? Just make sure you can tolerate the narration...

Excellent representation of all of the perspectives and emotions that come with Alzheimer's

I really enjoyed this book! I thought it did a great job of showing different perspectives of all the people involved when one family member has a terminal illness. I also thought it was great how the author showed that people's reactions and understanding of each other can be mistaken. The way everyone in the family assumed Joey was a loser, just to find that Joey felt unloved and in the end, he's the one who cared for his dad's most beloved companion and cared for his mother. And I felt like the ending was perfect. It really seem true to life. This hit close to home for me because several members of my family are suffering from or have passed from Alzheimer's, and I am very terrified that my future holds the same.

Painful and Beautiful

I think that next to Fredrick Bachman's "A Man Called Ove" this book will always stay in my heart more than any other book(s) I have listened to. Alzheimer's is a devastating disease, and Eric Rill did an amazing job in showing the various points of view of both the patient and his family members.

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Titre: Gravé dans le sable

Auteur: Michel Bussi

Narrateur: Olivier Prémel

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 11 hrs and 40 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 02-11-15

Éditeur: Audiolib

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Quel est le prix d'une vie ?

Quand on s'appelle Lucky, qu'on a la chance du diable, alors peut-être la mort n'est-elle qu'un défi. Un jeu. Ils étaient cent quatre-vingt-huit soldats sur la péniche en ce jour de juin 1944. Et Lucky a misé sa vie contre une hypothétique fortune.

Alice, sa fiancée, sublime et résolue, n'a plus rien à perdre lorsque vingt ans plus tard, elle apprend l'incroyable pacte conclu par Lucky quelques heures avant le Débarquement. De la Normandie aux États-Unis, elle se lance à la quête de la vérité et des témoins... au risque de réveiller les démons du passé.

©2014 Presses de la Cité (P)2015 Audiolib

Avis des membres:

L'Amour et La guerre

Le livre était comme un mélange de 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' rencontre 'Saving Private Ryan'. Ce n'est pas Michel's le livre meilleur.

Highly entertaining with local color and plot twists galore.

This book's only flaw like others by Bussing is that when it's finished, I am disappointed to have it end. Like all his books, it is thoroughly captivating, well written with wonderful local color as befits a Professor of Geography. As with the other books I have listened to, the French narration is excellent. Unfortunately, many a good audiobook is spoiled by bad narration

Five Stars

comme à chaque fois, super

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Titre: Suite française

Auteur: Irène Némirovsky

Narrateur: Dominique Reymond

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 13 hrs and 53 mins

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 02-11-15

Éditeur: Audiolib

Evaluation: 4.5 sur 5 sur 15 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Résumé de l'éditeur:

"Ne rien prouver surtout. Ni que les uns sont bons et les autres mauvais, ni que celui-ci a tort et un autre raison. Même si c'est vrai, surtout si c'est vrai." Irène Némirovsky

Suite française réunit les deux premiers romans d'une série qu'Irène Némirovsky, célèbre depuis David Golder, publié en 1929, souhaitait écrire sur la guerre : Tempête en juin et Dolce. Mais, en juillet 1942, elle est arrêtée par les Nazis puis disparait à Auschwitz.

Tempête en juin décrit par le menu l'Exode, et ce traumatisme qui arracha le masque social de bien des gens, dévoilant veulerie ou courage, égoïsme ou générosité. Dans Dolce, l'auteur dissèque le calme apparent régnant dans la petite ville de Bussy, l'ambigüité des liens qui lient sa population et les occupants, puis les tensions nées des premières actions de la Résistance.

Ces deux romans ne seront publiés qu'en 2004, sous le titre Suite française. Ouvrage pour lequel Irène Némirovsky obtiendra le Prix Renaudot à titre posthume.

©2004 Éditions Denoël (P)2015 Audiolib

Revues par les critiques:

A propos de ce titre

Prix Renaudot 2004.

Avis des membres:

Brilliant

This is a description of the build up to WWII in France, written while it was happening, and before the author know what was coming. Given subsequent events in her own life, and on the world stage, the writing takes on a poignancy that is heartbreaking. However, in her own mind at the time, the author was in fact just a successful writer trying in full innocence to publish another novel. She lived in an interstitial space, in a beam of intelligent innocence before the lights go out. This is brilliant fiction that would stand on its own without any dramatic context. Suite Francaise explores the threads of human nature, and the way individuals weave their way through events beyond the understanding of any one person. Nemirovsky writes with a subtlety and confidence of brush stroke that is mesmerizing.

Five Stars

Great.

A challenge to entice me to resurrect my French

My church book club has this on the list for later this year. A friend and I have challenged each other to read it in French. She is retired and is sticking with French only plus dictionary. I have less time,as a working editor, so I am "cheating" by also having at hand the English translation.

I find myself so engrossed in the story, that sometimes I almost forget I am zipping along in another language. If I get stuck, I then find myself forging on in English and forgetting to go back to my linguistic challenge of French from DECADES ago! Mademoiselle Briand would be so proud!

Riveting book in whichever language. Makes one want to start a journal/diary right away, though not to live through such harrowing times. So glad someone else put this on the list!

Heather Banks

Maryland

Five Stars well deserved!

Great book, love everything about it.

An exceptional work.

Beautiful. I read it in English and now I'm reading the original words of this great writer.

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Title: A Sister to Honor

Author: Lucy Ferriss

Narrator: Mozhan Marno

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-03-15

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Afia Satar is studious, modest, and devout. The young daughter of a landholding family in Northern Pakistan, Afia has enrolled in an American college with the dream of returning to her country as a doctor. But when a photo surfaces online of Afia holding hands with an American boy, she is suddenly no longer safe--even from the family that cherishes her.

Rising sports star Shahid Satar has been entrusted by his family to watch over Afia in this strange New England landscape. He has sworn to protect his beloved sister from the dangerous customs of America, from its loose morals and easy virtue. Shahid was the one who convinced their parents to allow her to come to the United States. He never imagined he'd be ordered to cleanse the stain of her shame...

Members Reviews:

Moving story

Not much to write about what I listen to. However, wanted all who think about listening to this story, to go ahead and do it. Very moving and educational. Didn't want it to end.

Enjoy!!

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Title: Monkey Beach

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Eden Robinson

Narrator: Noelle Kayser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-07-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 45 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A young Native American woman remembers her volatile childhood as she searches for her lost brother in the Canadian wilds in an extraordinary, critically acclaimed debut novel.

As she races along Canada's Douglas Channel in her speedboat - heading toward the place where her younger brother Jimmy, presumed drowned, was last seen - 20-year-old Lisamarie Hill recalls her younger days. A volatile and precocious Native girl growing up in Kitamaat, the Haisla Indian reservation located 500 miles north of Vancouver, Lisa came of age standing with her feet firmly planted in two different worlds: the spiritual realm of the Haisla and the sobering "real" world with its dangerous temptations of violence, drugs, and despair. From her beloved grandmother, Ma-ma-oo, she learned of tradition and magic; from her adored, Elvis-loving uncle Mick, a Native rights activist on a perilous course, she learned to see clearly, to speak her mind, and never to bow down. But the tragedies that have scarred her life and ultimately led her to these frigid waters cannot destroy her indomitable spirit, even though the ghosts that speak to her in the night warn her that the worst may be yet to come.

Easily one of the most admired debut novels to appear in many a decade, Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach was immediately greeted with universal acclaim - called "gripping" by the San Diego Union-Tribune, "wonderful" by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and "glorious" by the Globe and Mail, earning nominations for numerous literary awards before receiving the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Evocative, moving, haunting, and devastatingly funny, it is an extraordinary listen from a brilliant literary voice that must be heard.

Members Reviews:

It wasn't an easy read. The author's point of view is disjointed

It wasn't an easy read. The author's point of view is disjointed. It is possible since there is a cultural difference, it makes for the difficulty in connecting with the characters.

Captivating and evocative

Monkey Beach is the most original and entertaining novel I have read in recent memory. It was a suprise that, despite the less ordinary setting of a native community in northern BC, so much of the coming-of-age scenario was evocative of my own. Unlike my usual life, however, after finishing the book I continue to see giant cedars, mist rising on the water, and little red-haired men at the edge of my sightline. It really stays with you.

I did not like the ending

The book was interesting but the book uses a mixture of present tense and flashbacks that is a bit confusing. There were several misspellings and other evidence that the book wasn't well edited. A better editor could have made a difference in this book. It's a story about Native Americans in modern times in the Pacific Northwest. The main character is searching for a brother who has disappeared from a fishing boat but all is not what it seems. The ending was what really made me disappointed. It was ambiguous to say the least. I don't like spoiling a story but at the end you won't really know what happened. Maybe that's the point, everyone will develop their own theory of what actually happens at the end but it wasn't done well.

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Title: The Song

Author: Chris Fabry

Narrator: Eric G. Dove

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-01-15

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Jed King's life has been shaped by the songs and mistakes of his famous father. He wants to sing his own song, but the words and melody are elusive. Haunted by the scars inflicted by his broken family, Jed's dreams of a successful music career seem out of reach... until he meets Rose.

As romance quickly blooms, Jed pens a new song and suddenly finds himself catapulted into stardom. But with this life of fame comes temptation, the same temptation that lured his father so many years ago.

Set in the fertile mid-South, this quest for success leads Jed and Rose on a journey that will force them to deal with the pain of loss, failure, and the desire to be who God created them to be.

Lyrical and deeply honest, The Song asks the hard questions of love and forgiveness. When even the wisest of men are fools in love, can true love persevere?

Members Reviews:

in love with forgiveness

It is a beautiful story to live by and I understand that forgiveness comes in all colors and shapes

A Story of Redemption

Had a good moral and theme. Just felt it was a bit predictable. I enjoy books with twist I don't expect.

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Title: The Last Anniversary

Author: Liane Moriarty

Narrator: Caroline Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-14

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 112 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

I'll tell you something, something important. Love is a decision. Not a feeling. That's what you young people don't realise. That's why you're always off divorcing each other. No offence, dear.

So decrees the formidable Connie Thrum of Scribbly Gum Island. She is the chief decision-maker of a rather unconventional family and her word is law. It's been over 70 years since Connie and her sister Rose visited their neighbours and found the kettle boiling and a baby waking for her feed, but no sign of her parents. The 'Munro Baby Mystery' still hasn't been solved and tourists can visit the abandoned home, exactly as it was found in 1932.

But now Connie has passed away and the island residents ponder her legacy. Sophie Honeywell is looking down the barrel of her 40th birthday and still hoping for that fairytale ending. Her beautiful new friend Grace, the Munro Baby's grand daughter, can't tell anyone what she hopes for. It would be too shocking.

Meanwhile, a frumpy housewife makes a pact with a stranger, an old lady starts making her own decisions and a family secret finally explodes on an extraordinary night of mulled wine, fire-eating, and face-painting - The Last Anniversary.

Critic Reviews:

"A stunner... Moriarty's prose turns from funny through poignant to frightening in an artful snap." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

Not as good as her other books

Loved Truly Madly Guilty and Big Little Lies. This wasn't as satisfying. Characters a bit shallow and plot not as page turning as the others.

Just lovely!

If you love Liane Moriarty's books you don't want to miss this one. It had everything I've come to expect. Sophie is one of my favourite characters in a long time. Well worth your credit.

Fabulously done!

The narration is first rate. The characters are rich and edgy and the storyline keeps you engaged! A very worthwhile "read"!

So sad its over!

I love this authors books, yet I dont quite know how to describe them slice of life? I've read Little Big Lies, The Husbands Secret, What Alice Forgot, Three Wishes and love them all.

I was so absorbed in this tale that I could have gone on reading it for days! Id give it 6 out 5 if I could for the sheer entertainment it provided me - I did not want to put it down!

I did have a bit of trouble keeping track of how everyone was related to each other, but thats typical for me; it did not ruin the story.

I cant wait to sink my teeth into another one of her excellent stories, sadly for me there is only one left that I have not read: The Hypnotists Love Story.

I hope shes busy writing more!

the last anniversary

What did you love best about The Last Anniversary?

I loved all of the characters and how the all linked up together, also I was on the edge throughout the book to find out what happened in the end.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Last Anniversary?

The last 5 minutes.

Have you listened to any of Caroline Lees other performances before? How does this one compare?

Yes, I love listening to her.

Any additional comments?

This was a fantastic book, I have read all Liane Moriarty books and I have never been disappointed. I loved they way I was on edge through the whole book waiting to find out what happened. Sad its finished now though. Come on Liane! I'm ready for your next book