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The Carer

By: Deborah Moggach
Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
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 James is getting on a bit and needs full-time help. So Phoebe and Robert, his middle-aged offspring, employ Mandy, who seems willing to take him off their hands. But as James regales his family with tales of Mandy's virtues, their shopping trips and the shared pleasure of their journeys to garden centres, Phoebe and Robert sense something is amiss. Is this really their father, the distant figure who never once turned up for a sports day, now happily chortling over cuckoo clocks and television soaps? Then something happens that throws everything into new relief, and Phoebe and Robert discover that life most definitely does not stop for the elderly. It just moves onto a very different plane – changing all the stories they thought they knew so well.©2019 Deborah Moggach (P)2019 Bolinda Publishing Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Ancient Greece Greek Mythology

Critic Reviews

'Unputdownable, fun and tender with characters that jump off the page. Perfection.' (Marian Keyes, international bestselling author)
'Beautifully written, oozing interesting characters that you genuinely care about.' (Adele Parks, bestselling author of Just My Luck)
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I really enjoyed this book good characters and an easy read. I will try and dip into Deborah Moggachs stories again.
Good reader too.

The cater

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I kept waiting for something to happen. Just when I was about to give up, it did. But then it was over and it was back to nothing happening again.

Boring

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I really struggled listening to this book. The narrator seemed more suited to reading to children and the voices seemed patronising.

Story ok, narration annoying.

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I wanted to like this, I struggled on thinking it would get better, it’s different but hard to stay with. I commend myself for getting through it.

Tedious

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An interesting visit to the lives of a middle class family told through the secret s they keep. It held my attention the whole way through.

Very engaging

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