Superb

A wonderful story as always by this author. The narrators were amazing. 5 stars from me

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Very enjoyable

Loved the story. Well worth a listen. Will definitely be getting more of Nicks books

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Enjoyable characters easy read

Like the narration & easy listening . Story but predictable , still enjoyed it , makes you wonder how many people live it

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Easy listening romance

Loved the story despite being completely predictable. Was nice easy listening at bed time. Only problems I faced was with the narration; which due to switching between characters during dialogue seemed a bit disjointed. Also the authors constant use of "he said" "she said" when listening to the audio version becomes rather irritating.

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Slow to start but an enjoyable story.

I listened to this as an audio book. It took quite a while to get into and I nearly stopped, but it hung around in my mind until I picked it back up again.
It was quite a different set up from what I'm used to and a little confusing to begin with but I'm very glad that I did go back to it as I enjoyed the story.

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touching love stories

very insightful characters multi layered story told from different perspectives really enjoyable. loved the

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Loved It

Really enjoyed this story! Each of the characters and their flaws made them realistically human and it was easy to find a way to relate to each of them (well, except maybe Ant. He really was a bit of a twit to be fair 😅)

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It wasn't awful but I didn't love it

I didn't hate it but I just didn't like it all that much. The story itself was slow & quaint in a rambling pleasant way but very predictable. Given the content I was surprised at how surface level everyone's feelings felt to me, like there was no real depth there but maybe I just didn't gel with the characters. I was very surprised to find that this was written as recently as 2021 as it seemed very old fashioned. The repeated use of the phrase "hi-fi" bugged for me instance. Didn't really like the narrators either and found some of their choice of pronunciations odd. Sorry!

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*The Grass is not always Greener*

This book is about two couples and predominantly focusses on Heather and Joe with input by Amy.

Ant and Heather
They are not married and have two daughters. Ant is controlling and difficult and undermines Heather to the point she is isolated and has lost confidence in herself. She constantly tries to keep the peace by trying to appease him.

Joe and Amy
He is easy going but plain speaking but he has what he thinks is the girl of his dreams in Amy but he struggles to make her happy. Amy seems to be constantly finding new avenues, guru’s etc and she is happy for a while and then she is unhappy.

Things change when one of Ant and Heather’s children wants to go on holiday with one of their schoolmates Ben, he is the son of Joe and Amy who Heather has never met, but Ant knows them due to Joe fitting kitchens for the properties Joe owns.

To cut a long story short they all end up go going on holiday and the cracks start to appear whilst on holiday when Heather wakes up in the early hours and finds Ant not beside her she goes to investigate. What she discovers should be one of your worst nightmares but as time goes on Heather is relieved.

The fallout means Joe is devastated and Heather is free. Ant and Amy leave for the U.K. while Joe and Heather are left to pick up the pieces.

Strangely enough a new couple emerge while one pairing goes by the wayside.

What happens is that the new couple are each other soulmates and we see them both grow especially Heather she finds herself and she evolves. Amy has to deal with her demons and Joe is the happiest he has ever been. As for Ant he continues with his full of his own self importance routine.

This book took me by surprise because it shows the different dynamics that relationships go through and I have to say the resilience of the children in this story is a thing of beauty.

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Lightweight fiction

I persevered with this, although it is overly long and padded out with unnecessary mundane detail. The story itself is entirely predictable and not particularly well told.
However the worst bit was the narrator voicing ‘Heather’ - terrible unnatural pronunciation, overly dramatic with an odd inflection on many every day phrases. If not for the other narrators making it bearable, I would have given up.

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