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The Scent of You

By: Maggie Alderson
Narrated by: Zara Ramm
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A tale of perfumes, exploring life, love, loss and forgiveness - Maggie Alderson's new best seller.

Are you still married if you haven't seen your husband for months?

Polly's life is great. Her children are away at uni, her glamorous mother - still modelling at 85 - is happily settled in a retirement village, and her perfume blog is taking off. Then her husband announces he needs some space and promptly vanishes.

As Polly grapples with her bewildering situation, she clings to a few new friends to keep her going - Shirlee, the loudmouthed yoga student; Guy, the mysterious, infuriating and hugely talented perfumer; and Edward, an old flame from university.

And while she distracts herself with the heady world of luxury perfume, Polly knows she can't keep reality at bay forever. Eventually she is forced to confront some difficult truths: about her husband, herself, and who she really wants to be.

©2017 Maggie Alderson (P)2017 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Marriage

Critic Reviews

"Fact: Maggie Alderson is a goddamn national treasure. Her writing is pithy, warm, incisive and touching, her characters extremely lovable and relatably flawed." ( Cosmopolitan)
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What a wonderful book. I love Maggie’s work and consider her a favourite author but I put off reading this as I’m not very interested in perfume. I’m so happy that I bought it!
The story is great, lovable characters, a twist you won’t pick and leaves you with a lovely, fulfilled sense.
Highly recommend!

LOVE this book and its narration

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I enjoyed all the different characters and how they interacted with Polly. Loved all the perfume references. Intriguing ending. Wish the last conversation had a bit more in it. Ended too quickly

A sweet smelling story!

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Maggie has used various writing techniques to keep you well engaged and intrigued for the entire story. I particularly like the blog entries. I did find the ending very abrupt and had hoped for a little bit more of a reunion.

A very good read

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