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Title: Remember Me

Author: Liz Byrski

Narrator: Beverley Dunn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-13

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A moving story of love lost from the author of Bad Behaviour.

At 18 Liz is separated from her first true love. Across the miles she dreams of the day he will return to marry her, but fate has other plans and love is lost. Thirty-seven years later, she picks up the telephone to hear a voice from the past that still has the power to stop her in her tracks.

This is an extraordinary, true story of love lost, and love found. Crossing the continents and decades it is a testament to the power of the passion and the triumph of the heart.

Critic Reviews:

Sensuous and achingly honest, it's a seductive read. (The Weekend Australian)

"A beautiful story that needed to be written." (The West Australian)

A moving story marked out with pin-sharp memories and tightly reined prose. (The Age)

Members Reviews:

Three Stars

Easy to read but ended abruptly.

Five Stars

loved it

A memorable book and love affair

It's hard to imagine how people kept a long-distance relationship going before Internet telephony and other forms of instant communication. Liz Byrski wonders the same in her new book: "How did people manage before telephones, before email, before reasonably efficient postal services?" Somehow, they did - Liz certainly did. Remember Me is a memoir of her experience of first love. In 1962, aged seventeen and living in England, she met a thirty-one year old German. It was love at first sight, and the moment was to influence the rest of her life. "...there was the sound of footsteps on the stairs. I turned around and you were there. In that moment everything froze. I put my hand on the back of the couch to steady myself." Despite the instant and profound attraction between Liz and Karl - and, nearly forty years later, Liz recalls it with a powerful blend of clarity and emotion - it was doomed to fail. He was divorced, foreign, older; she was young, innocent and powerless. Few around them approved of the relationship and they all thought they knew what was best for the seventeen year-old. Her parents ("generous, warm-hearted conservative people, hanging grimly on to what they had created,") met Karl and liked him but forbade Liz from going to America with him. How could the relationship not end in disaster? Yet, in the first surprise of this book, it's ended by an unexpected twist, instead of the pressure of social convention - and Liz is heartbroken. Thirty-seven years later, Liz Byrski is a successful writer and broadcaster living in Australia. She has two sons and is a grandmother. She has worked hard and reaped the rewards - she knows and is known. But something isn't right: "Sadness is so exhausting and a lifetime of it seems suddenly to have crept up on me and taken me by surprise," she writes. Her family and friends think she needs an adventure - she'll settle for two weeks in England. She gets both. At her childhood home an envelope is waiting for her. "...I stare at the handwriting. Something strange happens to my heartbeat...everything is a blur, I can see nothing but the words on the card, hear nothing but the ringing in my head..." The envelope is from Karl - and Liz's life is turned on its head. Soon afterwards they speak on the phone: `Remember me?' he asks. They arrange to meet - and again, people close to Liz wonder if it's the right thing to do.