That Part Was True by Deborah McKinlay audiobook

That Part Was True

By Deborah McKinlay
Read by L. J. Ganser and Katherine Kellgren

Hachette Book Group 9781455573653

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 1 Format: Library CD

  • ISBN: 9781478981930

Runtime: 5.83 Hours
Category: Fiction/Literary
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

A New York Times Editor’s Choice

The Bridges of Madison County meets Sleepless in Seattle. A lonely British woman's letter to a successful American author sparks a relationship that changes both their lives.

When Eve Petworth writes to Jackson Cooper to praise a scene in one of his books, they discover a mutual love of cookery and food. Their friendship blossoms against the backdrop of Jackson's colorful but ultimately unsatisfying love life and Eve's tense relationship with her soon-to-be married daughter. As each of them offers, from behind the veils of semi-anonymity and distance, wise and increasingly affectionate counsel to the other, they both begin to confront their problems and plan a celebratory meeting in Paris—a meeting that Eve fears can never happen.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Almost every page offers delicious, offbeat descriptions…Whereas some weak-kneed…characters might test our patience, we’re always on Eve’s side. She’s self-aware, her own best critic, in search of coping mechanisms and peace.” —New York Times Book Review
“A charming and quick read, That Part was True introduces two innocuous, somewhat lonely, characters who forge an unlikely friendship through mailed letters. The pair’s platonic relationship is comforting and reliably innocent, yet their discussion of food and love is wonderfully sensory. The ending is hardly unexpected, but provides a nice wrap-up to this quiet, slice-of-life tale.” —RT Book Reviews (4 stars)
“Readers will appreciate the way McKinlay captures emotional truths.” —Publishers Weekly
“British novelist McKinlay offers a not-quite love affair through letters and emails between a wildly successful American writer and a lonely, well-to-do British woman.” —Kirkus Reviews
“A delicately wrought tale of longing and loss…Deborah MeKinlay’s beautiful language and superbly drawn characters enchant on every level. The ending stopped my breath.” —Beatriz Williams, author of A Hundred Summers

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Author

Author Bio: Deborah McKinlay

Author Bio: Deborah McKinlay

Deborah McKinlay has published a number of nonfiction titles in the United Kingdom, and her books have been translated into numerous languages. Her work has appeared in British Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire. She lives in South West England.

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Available Formats : Library CD
Category: Fiction/Literary
Runtime: 5.83
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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