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How to Walk Away

By: Katherine Center
Narrated by: Therese Plummer
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If your life fell apart, could you start again?

The New York Times bestseller.

Maggie Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she’s worked so hard and so long for: her dream job, a fiancé she adores and the promise of a perfect life just around the corner. But on what should have been the happiest day of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in a single catastrophic moment.

In hospital Maggie is forced to confront the unthinkable. First there is her fiancé, Charlie, wallowing in self-pity while demanding forgiveness. Then there’s her sister Kit, who shows up after pulling a three-year vanishing act. Finally there’s Iain, her physical therapist, the one the nurses said was too tough for her. Iain, who won’t let her give in to her despair, who makes her cry, but also manages to make her laugh . . .

Maggie’s new life is nothing like she expected. But could it be more than she had ever dared hope for?

How to Walk Away by Katherine Center is an uplifting story of learning to live – and love – again.

'If you read just one book this year, read How to Walk Away' Nina George, author of The Little Paris Bookshop.

 Contemporary Friendship Genre Fiction Women's Fiction
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I loved the perspective of this book and it was so hard to stop listening. This author never disappoints with her originality.

Beautiful Story

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I thoroughly enjoyed this story, very well written. I did find Iain’s bad Scottish accent hard to listen to and almost gave up on it but glad I didn’t because his character was great. Absolutely loved Maggie, Iain and Kitty. There was so much depth to these characters and their family. I found some parts frustrating, like how can a not even qualified pilot steal a plane, crash and nearly kill someone and not have any consequences? But over all a beautiful story

A little bit heart breaking

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