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The Missing Letters of Mrs Bright

By: Beth Miller
Narrated by: Marian Hussey
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Sometimes it takes losing something to see where you truly belong.

For the past 29 years, Kay Bright’s days have had a familiar rhythm: she works in her husband’s stationery shop hoping to finally sell the legendary gold pen, cooks for her family, tries to remember to practice yoga, and every other month she writes to her best friend, Ursula. Kay could set her calendar by their letters: her heart lifts when the blue airmail envelope, addressed in Ursula’s slanting handwriting, falls gently onto the mat.

But now Ursula has stopped writing and everything is a little bit worse.

Ursula is the only one who knows Kay’s deepest secret, something that happened decades ago that could tear Kay’s life apart today. She has always been the person Kay relies on.

Worried, Kay gets out her shoebox of Ursula’s letters and as she reads, her unease starts to grow. And then at 10 o’clock in the morning, Kay walks out of her yellow front door with just a rucksack, leaving her wedding ring on the table....

This emotional and heart-warming novel is for anyone who knows it’s never too late to look for happiness. Fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, A Man Called Ove, and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry will fall in love with this feel-good and moving story that shows you that the best friendships truly last forever.

©2020 Beth Miller (P)2019 Bookouture
Family Life Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Women's Fiction Feel-Good Heartfelt Funny
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A story of friendships and family and how our decisions can affect everyone around us. Kay makes the momentous decision to walk out of her marriage, to see her friend Ursula and complete some of the dreams she had years ago. Her family don't understand what has changed and why, but this heart warming story brings together all the pieces of Kay's life both past and present. With a good narrator, you find yourself involved in both Kay's and her daughter Stella's story and their new beginnings.

Heartwarming

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This story was reminiscent of Shirley Valentine but not as funny. The story was bland, predictable and the narrator spoiled it for me with her weak attempt at being a 50 something year old woman, she came across as more of a 65 year old so I just found the narration irritating. I hurried to get through it, skipping parts that seemed ridiculous to me.

Predictable story

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This is a nice light holiday read, well written but not wholly credible and a little predictable.

Enjoyable if a little predictable

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It's such a lovely story. The words flow off the page and into the ears. Really enjoyed it and massively recommend it if you want an easy going listen. Don't get me wrong, the book covers some very strong subjects but handles them with delicacy and grace. The humour is subtle in places but definitely had me chuckling out loud. Just brilliant!

Melts your heart

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It was ok, a bit boring and predictable for me. The reader struggled with the accents and I wasn’t sure if it was welsh or Scottish at times, she was from Liverpool it turned out.

A bit predictable

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