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Five Hundred Miles from You

the most joyful, life-affirming novel of the year

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Five Hundred Miles from You

By: Jenny Colgan
Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
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Escape with Jenny Colgan.

Lissa loves her job as a nurse, but recently she's been doing a better job of looking after other people than looking after herself. After a traumatic incident at work leaves her feeling overwhelmed, she agrees to swap lives with someone in a quiet village in Scotland.

Cormac is restless. Just out of the army, he's desperately in need of distraction, and there's precious little of it in Kirrinfief. Maybe three months in London is just what he needs.

As Lissa and Cormac warm to their new lives, emailing back and forth about anything and everything, finally things seem to be falling into place. But each of them feel there's still a piece missing. What - or who - could it be?

©2020 Jenny Colgan (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK Contemporary Contemporary Romance Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Romance Romantic Comedy Comedy

Critic Reviews

"This uplifting story is one of Colgan's best to date." (Daily Mirror)

"I wanted to hot-foot it to the Scottish islands." (Daily Mail)

"With a cast of memorable characters and an uplifting storyline, Five Hundred Miles From You is one of her best novels." (Sunday Express)
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Fun easy going story with great narration. I like the link to ‘The Bookshop on the Shore’ (her earlier book) as I loved some of the characters in that book. It was nice to reacquaint with them again - but knowing this or their backstory is not necessary to you enjoyment of this book.

Easy read/listen

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I struggled with this one, not to my taste but ok if you're just wanting something light to listen to.

It's ok

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I really loved this story and third book of the series. great to see what happens next for characters of the other two books. Great narration. I never relisten to books, book in going to do this and the other two again.

great story,/fun listen

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I loved the third instalment in this series. It was just as wonderful as the others. Great characters and heartfelt content. Lots of laughs a few happy tears as well. Do yourself a favour a give if a read.

Wonderful

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Classic Jenny Colgan. Such descriptive, captive writing. The build up to the final chapters is always lovely.
The overlap of the different books is present in this title, also very enjoyable!

Great character development

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Characters are fantastic engaging and funny! The story is a little lacklustre and thin.

Great characters and amazing narration.

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Persevered with this book only because the narrator was so good and I usually like Jenny Colman novels. The story turned out to be ok but it took a long time to get into the main story line.

Took forever to get into the story

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I've previously listened and read books by this author before and enjoyed them.

Just could not get into this story. I've given it 2 hours and the characters aannoy me, the plot is too slow and I've had enough.

Can't return it as I actually paid cold hard cash for this one. I guess I'm the fool.

Wanted to return but couldn't

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