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The Most Fun We Ever Had

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020

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The Most Fun We Ever Had

By: Claire Lombardo
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
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About this listen

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020

The New York Times best seller.

Meet the Sorenson Family.

Marilyn has somehow fallen into motherhood and spent four decades married to

David, who's pretty certain he loves her more than anyone has ever loved another person.

Wendy, their eldest, a cause for concern, soothes herself with drink after being widowed young,

while Violet, lawyer-turned-stay-at-home-mother, is disturbed by the reappearance of a son placed for adoption 15 years earlier.

Liza, a professor, is pregnant with a baby she's not sure she wants by a man she's not sure she loves

and Grace, their dawdling youngest daughter, lives a lie that no one in her family suspects.

©2019 Claire Lombardo (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

Critic Reviews

"A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory." (Madeline Miller)

"A moving, immersive, often very funny study of family and sisterhood."(Sunday Times)

!Like Meg Wolitzer. A forensic dissection of family past and present, I loved it. If you like reading about relationships, this one is for you." (Pandora Sykes)
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Enjoyed the story and narration however listened to it on 1.7 speed as it was very slow reading.

Fabulous story of family and life.

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I have enjoyed listening to this book about the intricate relationships within a family & oneself, & the correlation of both. Containing the full rainbow of human emotion. A worthy read.
The reader was easy to listen to & concveyed the story beautifully.

Enjoyable audiobook

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This is a beautifully written piece of work that reads so well and captured my interest from the start. A tale of 2 people who fall in love, start a family and raise 4 children. This might sound boring but read a bit more and each character is unveiled and soon you discover there’s nothing boring about this family at all. I enjoyed this book immensely.

A beautiful tale that encapsulates the intricacies of family life

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To be fair I don’t normally read these types of books. I normally go for murder mystery types. Perhaps that’s why it seemed to go on forever. Nice enough story probably not enough action for what I prefer .

Seemed to drag on but I like suspense

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In essence the story was engaging in parts. I got bored with the long drawn out scenario’s and the wordiness’s of it. Tried to hard to be something it’s not with the academic language used. It took me a while to get through it as I kept turning it off. It had so much potential and fell short of My expectations.

Too long and trying to hard

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Despite the lengthy read, the audiobook aspect allowed me to fully enjoy the lengthy saga.

Long but worth it

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I listened to Claire Lombardo's other book and loved it and definitely wanted to love this one too.
Thanks for sharing such intricate and interesting family stories Claire.
And Laurel Lefkow your narration was perfect! Thank you.

Just Loved This!

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I enjoyed the story but it was about 5 hours too long, just seemed to drag out.

Nice story

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This book was so incredibly long & full of the most awful characters. I kept hoping they’d redeem themselves, but sadly not.

Awful Characters

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This really was not a favourite.
I got half way through and realised that…. Nothing had happened. I feel like 80% of the story was reiterating their love. We get it. They loved each other.
It was wonderfully narrated.

No value for the length of story

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