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    Before I Let You Go
    Before I Let You Go
    Before I Let You Go
    Audiobook12 hours

    Before I Let You Go

    Written by Kelly Rimmer

    Narrated by Vanessa Johansson and Amy Landon

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    From the bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say and The Warsaw Orphan and for fans of All the Light We Cannot See, Before I Let You Go explores a hotly divisive topic and asks how far the ties of family love can be stretched before they finally break. 

    “Kelly Rimmer skillfully takes us deep inside a world where love must make choices that logic cannot. Ripped from the headlines and from the heart, Before I Let You Go is an unforgettable novel that will amaze and startle you with its impact and insight.” —Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author of The Bookshop at Water’s End

    “Before I Let You Go is a heartbreaking book about an impossible decision. Kelly Rimmer writes with wisdom and compassion about the relationships between sisters, mother and daughter…. She captures the anguish of addiction, the agonizing conflict between an addict’s best and worst selves. Above all, this is a novel about the deepest love possible.” —Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author

    The 2:00 a.m. call is the first time Lexie Vidler has heard her sister’s voice in years. Annie is a drug addict, a thief, a liar—and in trouble, again. Lexie has always bailed Annie out, given her money, a place to sleep, sent her to every kind of rehab. But this time, she’s not just strung out—she’s pregnant and in premature labor. If she goes to the hospital, she’ll lose custody of her baby—maybe even go to prison. But the alternative is unthinkable.

    As the weeks unfold, Lexie finds herself caring for her fragile newborn niece while her carefully ordered life is collapsing around her. She’s in danger of losing her job, and her fiancé only has so much patience for Annie’s drama. In court-ordered rehab, Annie attempts to halt her downward spiral by confronting long-buried secrets from the sisters’ childhoods, ghosts that Lexie doesn’t want to face. But will the journey heal Annie, or lead her down a darker path?

    Don’t miss Kelly Rimmer’s newest novel, The Paris Agent, where a family’s innocent search for answers brings a long-forgotten, twenty-five-year-old mystery featuring two female SOE operatives comes to light!
     
    For more by Kelly Rimmer, look for
    • The Things We Cannot Say
    • Truths I Never Told You
    • The Warsaw Orphan
    • The German Wife
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin Audio
    Release dateApr 3, 2018
    ISBN9781488204272
    Before I Let You Go
    Author

    Kelly Rimmer

    Kelly Rimmer is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of ten novels, including The Secret Daughter and The Things We Cannot Say. Her books have sold more than one million copies, and have been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide. Kelly lives in rural Australia with her family and fantastically naughty dogs, Sully and Basil.

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    • 5/5
      This book was one I couldn't stop listening to. Perfect ending! DL
    • 5/5
      Can’t stop crying
      It is very emotional- it takes a while to get used to Lexie’s.
    • 3/5
      Overall I liked the book and would give it 4 stars. I did find Lexie’s character annoying, whiny and frustrating. But the audio version I would give 3 stars because I could not stand the narrator who read Lexie’s part, and think part of my annoyance with the character of Lexie is due to the way this narrator voiced her.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      The story was believable, but the character of Lexi was just too dramatic and over-the-top. She was not believable to me. I don’t know if I would feel the same if there had been another narrator or if I had even read the book instead of listening to it. The narrator for Lexi was terrible. She tried to hard to “act” instead of just reading the story with some passion. I struggled to get through this one.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Gut wrenching well written. Such a good book. Great on audio. :-).

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Amazingly written. I love how the story is written in the perspectives of both sisters.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I just recently discovered Rimmer's amazing books (audiobooks) and each one better than the last; until now. The main narrator in this book is like listening to s robot trying to sound human. The story im sure is great but i just cant with that narrator. The book gets 5 stars with one removed. If they re-release in the future with a new narrator i will try again.

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