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Title: Something I'm Not

Author: Lucy Beresford

Narrator: Rawlins Penelope

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

To her friends, Amber leads the perfect life with her successful marriage, her powerful job in London and her immaculate style. But as more of her friends fall pregnant, and her best friend, Dylan, announces his decision to adopt a baby with his gay lover, Amber's carefully structured world begins to fall apart.

Intricately crafted and sensually evocative, Something I'm Not is a sharp, contemporary novel that discusses the way the psychological scars of the past pass through the generations of a family. With a charming and complex heroine, a group of friends heading towards midlife - some of who are only just finding out who they really are - Something I'm Not is a subtle novel that poses the questions most women are too afraid to ask.

Critic Reviews:

"A complex odyssey that is ambitious in scope, carefully structured and highly accessible. It trumpets the courage needed to make - and stand by - difficult, life-defining decisions, as well as the hereditary effects of unresolved trauma and the importance of friends to our mental well-being...negotiate[s] all this without resorting to psychobabble or sentimentality, and still boast[s] authenticity and poignancy." (The Sunday Telegraph)

"Sparkling...Amber is a strong and sympathetic heroine and her friends are well-rounded individuals and recognisable contemporary types...Beresford's deft plotting and warm and witty writing makes this an assured debut." (The Daily Mail)

Members Reviews:

Good underlying story if a bit disjointed at times. Easy read.

I wasn't sure what to expect with this book, I think I definitely expected more though. It looked quite a 'deep' book compared to the usual chick lit, and I guess that's what drew me to it initially. Amber has suffered a nonexistent relationship with her mother, which has led to her issues as an adult. We don't learn too much of her relationship with her father except it seems a good one, however, when he dies, she is upset but the story still dwells on the failed mother/daughter relationship. I thought that it would develop into more of a story along the lines of why their relationship is so strained, but it only led to what the mother had suffered in the end, but I didn't feel a great deal of empathy for her. I struggled to relate to any of the characters, Dylan seemed the funniest, but none of them really grabbed you and left you wanting to find out more. The story kept going from one thing to another and on quite a few occasions I was left wondering what was going on and having to go back a few pages to figure it out. I liked the concept; a loving young couple who don't want kids and see their friends as family, but it was just too disjointed for me. I found the incident on the plane weird and unnecessary (kind of out of the blue then not mentioned again) and likewise with why she did what she did in the church, I was totally confused by that. All in all, it was a nice idea for a book, some of the characters were relatable and I liked what Amber did in the end a lot. As I say, I had higher hopes for it, but it is an easy read.

Could have been better

A very different book with many characters and a zany plot.