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Life After Truth

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Life After Truth

By: Ceridwen Dovey
Narrated by: Rachel Butera
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Fifteen years after graduating from Harvard, five close friends on the cusp of middle age are still pursuing an elusive happiness and wondering if they’ve wasted their youthful opportunities. Jules, already a famous actor when she arrived on campus, is changing in mysterious ways but won’t share what is haunting her. Mariam and Rowan, who married young, are struggling with the demands of family life and starting to regret prioritising meaning over wealth in their careers. Eloise, now a professor who studies the psychology of happiness, is troubled by her younger wife’s radical politics. And Jomo, founder of a luxury jewellery company, has been carrying an engagement ring around for months, unsure whether his girlfriend is the one.

The soul searching begins in earnest at their much-anticipated college reunion weekend on the Harvard campus, when the most infamous member of their class, Frederick - senior advisor and son of the recently elected and loathed US President - turns up dead.

Old friends often think they know everything about one another, but time has a way of making us strangers to those we love - and to ourselves....

Ceridwen Dovey is the best-selling author of Once More With Feeling and In the Garden of the Fugitives.

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Sorry, but this book bored and irritated me. We ploughed through all the characters, one by one, hearing about their unremarkable lives, while being spoon-fed nuggets of home-spun wisdom on the subjects of relationships and parenting, with a tiresome amount of whinging about the latter. And all the while I was hoping that we were building to something interesting - and then it ended! I felt that I didn't know the character of the murderer well enough to even judge whether they would have 'dunnit'. It was extremely anti-climactic.

Pedestrian

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I kept waiting and waiting and waiting for this book to get good. There seemed to be very little plot and I waited and waited for the climax. I guessed the ending too. Most of the characters either had weird internal conflicts based on ideologies or worried about parenting over and over and over. The ending wasn’t satisfying for the amount of build up. The book had so much potential, but maybe it’s just not my cup of tea.

Not my cup of tea

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I read Once more with feeling by this author which I loved and was excited to read another of Ceridwen’s books but this was like watching some strangers at the coffee shop. Nothing much happens. One of the few books I have not finished

Disappointed

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Rambled on too much and not really for me ! Couldn't engage in the characters and the obtuse references to actual events and people a bit lame. Ok if your into it

Not my cup of tea

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The book seemed to have lost its way along the way with a disappointing end

Could have had a better ending

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If you want a short easy listen this is the book. Fairly predictable but some fun twists along the way.

Easy Listening

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Initially I thought this was navel-gazing twaddle and very self-serving. It did improve radically. Although the over-anslysis of parenting was a tad annoying. Parenting = sacrifice. That's it!

Unexpected Ending

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I absolutely loved Ceridwen's writing in 'Once more with feeling'. Unfortunately I was really bored and disappointed with this book. I didn't get it at all.

Disappointed

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As my subject title suggests this review is very much coloured by my own particular tastes.
In a book I look for a storyline, and in this book I found just rambling thoughts about the universe and our place in it. The characters were insipid and didn’t challenge me to want more. I did, in fact, want less.
I persevered to the end because that’s what I do……looking for an unexpected twist. Suffice to say it didn’t appear.
The narration was easy to listen to but didn’t have the content to give it any breadth.

Not to my taste

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A story which goes nowhere along multiple paths which allow the author to espouse every possible left wing woke prejudice about president trump, his son, parenting, gay surrogacy, interracial relationships and celebrity culture all within the bounds of the peculiarly elite world of a Harvard reunion weekend.

How woke can you go?

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