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When I Was Invisible

By: Dorothy Koomson
Narrated by: Susy Kane, Sara Powell
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Summary

'Do you ever wonder if you've lived the life you were meant to?' I ask her.

She sighs and dips her head. 'Even if I do, what difference will it make?'

In 1988 two girls with identical names and the same love of ballet meet for the first time. They seem destined to be best friends forever and to become professional dancers. Years later, however, they have both been dealt so many cruel and unexpected blows that they walk away from each other into very different futures - one enters a convent, the other becomes a minor celebrity.

Will these new 'invisible' lives be the ones they were meant to live, or will they find that kind of salvation only when they are reunited 20 years later?

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Wow, what a rollercoaster. Loved this book, very well written and narrated. Very dark and difficult topics but at the same time it wasn’t difficult to listen as it was handled so delicately through the characters . I loved Nika/Grace character and Sara Powell’s narration made this listen for me. Absolutely brilliant and I wish she would be narrating more books. I didn’t want it to end,

LOVED this book, Sara Powell narration was top!

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I only removed 1 star for the story because some of it was a bit predictable. However, as usual, very well written and captivating with so much reality to it.

True Dorothy Koomson's style...

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The emotional experience of trauma was covered unusually well for a fiction book. There are some quotes of the book that are very similar to things I have journaled or communicated about a couple of experiences the protagonists suffer.

Emotional experience written really well

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I loved this book. I love all Dorothy's books, but this one was one of her best. It was read perfectly, I was gripped from start to finish. I will certainly listen again when I am ultra challenge training... I covered many miles walking while I listened and I hardly noticed where I'd been! Xxx

Perfect

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I have only give this book 4 stars, but feel I need to explain as this was a excellent book, and I did enjoy it.

The characters are well drawn and the book is about Roni and Nika and how they dealt with the issues that surrounded their youth.

I feel the homelessness issues were covered so well and Ms Koomson has done her research well. However I feel the other issue that this book tackled which was very important to write about had quite a few anomalys that just did not make sense, but it still made a good book.

Lastly the reader for Nika had a lisp, which is not a problem, but took a couple of hours for me to get used to. Its a bit like when you first listen to Johnathon Ross and one listens at the voice rather than to the voice.

With all that said, I will definitely return to a Dorothy Koomson book in the future.

Invisible festering scars

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