
The Other Side of Beautiful
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Buy Now for $26.99
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Narrated by:
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Raechyl French
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By:
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Kim Lock
About this listen
Lost & Found meets The Rosie Project in a stunning break-out novel where a vulnerable misfit is forced to re-engage with the world, despite her best efforts.
Meet Mercy Blain, whose house has just burnt down. Unfortunately for Mercy, this goes beyond the disaster it would be for most people: she hasn't been outside that house for two years now.
Flung out into the world she's been studiously ignoring, Mercy goes to the only place she can. Her not-quite-ex-husband Eugene's house. But it turns out she can't stay there, either.
And so begins Mercy's unwilling journey. After the chance purchase of a cult classic campervan (read tiny, old and smelly), with the company of her sausage dog, Wasabi, and a mysterious box of cremated remains, Mercy heads north from Adelaide to Darwin.
On the road, through badly timed breakdowns, gregarious troupes of grey nomads, and run-ins with a rogue adversary, Mercy's carefully constructed walls start crumbling. But what was Mercy hiding from in her house? And why is Eugene desperate to have her back in the city? They say you can't run forever...
Exquisite, tender and wry, this is a break-out novel about facing anxiety and embracing life from an extraordinary new talent.
PRAISE:
"Tender, funny and quietly profound, The Other Side of Beautiful is a breath of fresh air." (The Sunday Times)
"A colourful, engaging story of escape and road-trip adventure...also compellingly cinematic and features an endearing narrator-heroine with plenty of meaty real-world troubles." (Sydney Morning Herald)
"An engaging story about second chances and a life changing road trip...a heart-warming story." (Canberra Weekly magazine)
"Mercy Blain is a character you find yourself cheering on. Kim Lock mixes the transformative journey of Alice Hart with the quirkiness of Eleanor Oliphant in this story about embracing life, even when it threatens to overwhelm you." (Tricia Stringer, best-selling author of The Family Inheritance)
"Mercy Blain is an unforgettable character who will capture your heart from the first pages and hold it through until the end. Her madcap journey towards forgiveness - of herself and others - is moving and funny and all other good things that will make you want to keep reading and make you sad when your time with Mercy comes to an end." (Sophie Green, best-selling author of The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle)
©2021 Kim Lock (P)2021 HarperCollins PublishersEscapism?
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Enjoyable yet predictable
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Brilliant!
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Makes me want to drive up the red centre.
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But the kicker was the protagonist's relationship with her mother. It was an exact match with my Psychopathic mother, except I had siblings, nieces and nephews for her to lie to about me and they still don't speak to me.
So I cried a lot, but thoroughly enjoyed the author's fictional story for what it was. The narrator was amazing.
Story was eerily similar to my own life.
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Loved it!!!
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Memories
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Enjoyable!
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Nice story
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I didn’t want it to end!
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