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Before the Swallows Come Back

By: Fiona Curnow
Narrated by: Steve Worsley
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Perfect for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, and Sal by Mik Kitson, with its celebration of the natural world, its misunderstood central characters living on the outside of society's norms, their survival in the wilderness, and the ultimate fight for justice.

Before the Swallows Come Back is a story of love, found family, and redemption that will break your heart and have it soaring time and time again as you sit on the edge of your seat desperately hoping.

Tommy struggles with people, with communicating, preferring solitude, drifting off with nature. He is protected by his Tinker family who keep to the old ways. A life of quiet seclusion under canvas is all he knows.

Charlotte cares for her sickly father. She meets Tommy by the riverside, and an unexpected friendship develops. Over the years it becomes something more, something crucial to both of them. But when tragedy strikes each family, they are torn apart.

Charlotte is sent far away.

Tommy might have done something very bad.

©2023 Fiona Curnow (P)2024 Fiona Curnow Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Heartfelt Feel-Good
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Well written, well read, really enjoyed this book right the way through, the narrator brought it to life with the accents

Lovely story

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Beautiful descriptive writing, lovely story with very likeable characters and perfect narration. Extremely enjoyable listen.

Beautifully written.

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This book had everything. Coming-of-age against the backdrop of the Scottish countryside. It had friendship, loss, enmity, sorrow, separation, reconnection, danger and excitement, to name but a few. The descriptions of the countryside and animals are superb and the whole thing presented in a great package of feel-good warmth. Nicely performed too, in a soft Scottish narration, in keeping with the story. Brilliant!

This book had everything!

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Loved every minute of this book, recommended to Friends and family, performed brilliantly and didn’t want it to end.

Before the Swallows Come Back

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Nothing I can say will influence others . For me the ability to escape the everyday with such great descriptions was wonderful

Took me to a different place

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