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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

By: Karen Joy Fowler
Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
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Rosemary doesn't talk much and about certain things she's silent. She had a sister, Fern, her whirlwind other half, who vanished from her life in circumstances she wishes she could forget. And it's been 10 years since she last saw her beloved older brother, Lowell.

Now at college, Rosemary starts to see she can't go forward without going back to the time when aged five, she was sent away from home to her grandparents and returned to find Fern gone.

It was Rosemary's parents who began all of the trouble - isn't it always? But, dear listener, exactly how they did it is a twist you'll have to discover for yourself.

©2013 Karen Joy Fowler (P)2022 Profile Books Ltd Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction

Critic Reviews

"Readably juicy and surreptitiously smart." (Barbara Kingsolver)

"Wise, provocative and wildly endearing." (Guardian)
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So beautiful. Brimming with originality,. Exposes heartbreaking realities about the way we bond with and treat animals , also some great humour and a profound message for humanity

So beautiful! Such originality and heart. Like an

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liked the temporary and the characters, I felt I understood most of them, well written

the story sadness of how we are horrible to animals

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I found the mention of the miss treatment of animals incredibly hard to listen to I am very aware of what happens and make choices accordingly. This took away from any story line for me. I wish I hadn’t heard it.

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