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The Perfect Present

By: Karen Swan
Narrated by: Imogen Church
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The Perfect Present is glamorous and festive read from Karen Swan, author of Christmas at Tiffany's.

Haunted by a past she can't escape, Laura Cunningham desires nothing more than to keep her world small and precise - her quiet relationship and growing jewellery business are all she needs to get by. Until the day when Rob Blake walks into her studio and commissions a necklace that will tell his enigmatic wife Cat's life in charms.

As Laura interviews Cat's family, friends and former lovers, she steps out of her world and into theirs - a charmed world where weekends are spent in Verbier and the air is lavender-scented, where friends are wild, extravagant and jealous, and a big love has to compete with grand passions.

Hearts are opened, secrets revealed and as the necklace begins to fill up with trinkets, Cat's intoxicating life envelops Laura's own. By the time she has to identify the final charm, Laura's metamorphosis is almost complete. But the last story left to tell has the power to change all of their lives forever, and Laura is forced to choose between who she really is and who it is she wants to be.

©2017 Karen Swan (P)2017 Macmillan Digital Audio Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Heartfelt Feel-Good

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Great story and characters. Was a new author for me and will definitely be seeking out her other audiobooks!

Addictive listen

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First Karen Swan book I’ve listened to. It was recommended by a friend. Fantastic book. I’ve already downloaded another!

Fantastic

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Excellent story with well rounded characters. Explanations about some of the standard charms made for jewellery added an extra element to a charming book.

Excellent story

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loved it, could not put it down ,loved the storyteller, gripping to the end. Brilliant

Excellent Story

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Great narration, beautiful story, couldn’t put it down. One of her best book, can’t wait for the next one

Fantastic story

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Having listened to several Karen Swan books and enjoyed Imogen Church’s reading of other novels I decided to give this a listen. The more I listened the more I struggled to switch this off, listening late into the night. I even looked forward to ironing as I couldn’t walk the dog further to listen to the story...

The prologue sets the scene for Laura and Lillie’s loss and it soon becomes clear that there is more of a mystery and that the main character is hiding something as she is asked to create the ‘perfect present’ for a clients wife. This is not the only secret and at times I felt on edge waiting for the inevitable to happen, but still desperate to know what would happen next. Not as predictable as I first thought, a well paced story.

Irresistible summer listen

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No words can describe how brilliantly written and narrated this book was. laugh, cry I did the lot.

No words

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Karen Swan has such an amazing way of putting a story together. I found this book riveting and the narrator brought it to life brilliantly.

Simply Perfect

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I found the story took a little while for me to get into it and to become gripped but once I was there I listened to it whenever I could grab even just a chapter. The characters were an interesting lot and I found myself thinking about them when I was wasnt even reading the book. I loved Imogen as the narrator!

A fab festive story to listen to anytime anywhere

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I really loved this book, it’s well worth a listen. Had me smiling and tearing up.

Loved it

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