The Other Side of the Bridge: Discover the author Graham Norton praised for her ‘poised, elegant prose, paired with quiet drama that will break your heart.’

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By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. With The Other Side of the Bridge she enchants us again, weaving together the stories of two families as they seek solace and redemption across two generations. It’s an extremely dramatic case in which she and her lover have fought, screamed, and miscommunicated with each other. I didn't know much about Greece in WWII, so Beyond the Olive Grove was a bit of an education for me. Her late father made his career on the Golden Gate Bridge, and the many stories of how he saved jumpers still haunt her.

Some of my favorite parts of the book delve into the construction, especially a humorous incident involving a Japanese freighter. There was one scene in particular, that I could more or less figure out why it was in there, but didn't really seem to fit and I felt like the same objective could have been achieved in a way that fit more with the story. Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung kann in folgende Länder KEIN Versand mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Frankreich, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Österreich, Polen, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Spanien. The Other Side of the Bridge : Discover the Author Graham Norton Praised for Her 'poised, Elegant Prose, Paired with Quiet Drama That Will Break Your Heart. Leaving Simon, her husband of twelve years, and everyone else in London felt like the right thing to do at the time.Struan is a place in which people help one another out; housewives take cooked meals to a family in distress, the doctor fails to present a bill to those who would find it hard to pay. There Was A Surreal Split Second Before The Blood Started To Well Up And Then Up It Came, Dark And Thick As Syrup. When Ava’s grandmother died, Ava’s life had recently been shattered, so the news that an old cottage in the small village of Iousidous in Greece was now hers came as a shock, but also a reprieve.

Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, are the sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming.Louise Doughty in The Independent finished with "Her Booker longlisting should be a source of joy for everyone tired of self-indulgent "look at me" writing. Readers are quickly immersed into the lives of two different people, Dave Riley from New York City and Katie Connelly from San Francisco. He, like Ian’s mother, isn’t valued in this hardscrabble climate, where his father and brother miss his school play due to errands.