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The Girl Who Just Appeared

By: Jonathan Harvey
Narrated by: Julie Maisey, Scot Williams, Various
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London, 2014. Adopted when just a few months old, Holly Smith has never fitted in. But then she finds a biscuit tin full of yellowing papers under the floorboards of the flat she was born in. Could these papers be the key to her past?

Liverpool, 1981. Fifteen-year-old Darren is negotiating life with his errant mother and younger brother. When the Toxteth Riots begin, Darren finds himself with a moral dilemma.

©2014 Jonathan Harvey (P)2015 W F Howes Ltd Literature & Fiction Women's Fiction Fiction

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" The Girl Who Just Appeared is a wonderful book - gripping and twisty and tender and touching." (Marian Keyes)
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It wasn't what I expected at all & that was a good thing, I was hooked & couldn't wait to listen to the next part each time i stopped listening. I have to now read all of Jonathan Harvey's other books.

Excellent

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Loved this story. Was really entertaining and both characters compelling. Highly recommended, narrators were both excellent

Great story

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This was hard going and a bit dul in the beginning but boredom made me stick with it and I’m glad I did. Parts of the story are harrowing and surprising when you know who Jonathon Harvey is (Gimme Gimme Gimme TV show and one of this other books All That She Wants) but it was written beautifully.
Unfortunately, Julie Maisey has the most irritating way of narrating that this will be the last book that I will listen to if she’s on the cast list. She has a permanently high tone and over egging the pudding way of talking. This book deserved someone that could adapt between the characters different emotions instead of her constant high pitched over acting way. It’s a shame because the subject of this book warranted someone better.
Scot Williams however was exceptional.

Lovely but harrowing story, female narrator spoilt it.

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How annoying is the main character, Holly! Not sure if she was written this way, wrong narrator or me just being a little sensitive but Gawd! Self centred, condescending, self righteous & downright rude in my opinion!
The story is ok, guessed quite early on the outcome, but it's cringeworthy with its cliche descriptions and opinion of North/South divide. I won't be looking for anything else by this author.

If you're Northern and easily offended, give it a

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I enjoyed the story, humorous at times but why oh why was this actress cast to read the book when she could not 'do' a Scouse accent? It was 'fingers down the blackboard ' awful at times, the worst accent since Dick Van Dyke's stab at a cockney accent in Mary Poppins. Unfortunately that performance spoiled an enjoyable listen for me.

Worse accent since Dick van Dyke's cockney accent

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