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    Sister

    Written by Rosamund Lupton

    Narrated by Juanita McMahon

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    About this audiobook

    Debut author Rosamund Lupton crafts a striking literary thriller with Sister, which received numerous starred reviews. When Beatrice learns her sister Tess is missing, she goes to London to join the search. And when everyone else gives up, only Beatrice soldiers on—determined to cut through the dark secrets and learn the truth behind her sister’s disappearance.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2011
    ISBN9781461849452
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    Sister
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    Rosamund Lupton

    Rosamund Lupton is the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed author of the novels Sister and Afterwards. Her New York Times bestselling debut Sister was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, a Target Book Club pick, winner of the Strand Magazine Critics Award, and has been translated into more than thirty languages, with international sales of over 1.5 million copies. Lupton lives in London with her husband and two sons.

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    Reviews for Sister

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    • 5/5
      Amazing story about family relations, thrilling, leading to an unexpected end. 5 stars!
    • 4/5
      "Sister" is an intriguing book about a woman coming to terms with her sister's death. The police have called Tess' death suicide, but Beatrice know her sister too well and is convinced she has been murdered and will not rest until the truth has been revealed.Told from Bee's point of view in the form of a letter to her beloved sister, the reader gradually learns more about the two women, their precarious childhood, their daily lives and the strong bond between them despite their vast differences. Beautifully written, this book is heart-wrenching, gripping and intense. Not only is it a murder mystery but also a wonderful exploration of the special relationship between sisters. A great read!
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this one.
      I thought the narrative was interesting. sister kept me interested all the way through, and the end surprised me.
    • 4/5
      Sometimes its good to have a page turning thriller. This one was pretty easily predictable from about the 1/2 way point. But it was still gripping enough to have me continue through the end to see how everything fit together. It did suffer from one of my greatest pet peeves of first person narratives - the protagonist (especially at the beginning of the book) keeps promising that things will reveal themselves in good time. Yes. Yes. We know that otherwise we wouldn't have a whodunit. Anyway - a good airplane / beach read.
    • 3/5
      Tough one to review without spoiling:Not a typical 'thriller,' psychologically or otherwise. It's minimally-suspenseful. Along the lines of Kate Atkinson with a good measure of Jodi Picoult. In spite of a couple big 'twists,' the ending struck me with more 'huh,' and less 'wow.' While there is a whodunit - or more accurately - a wasanythingdun, the book is really an expository on the bonds between sisters. There's also a subplot involving cystic fibrosis and genetic engineering that adds, well, really nothing.Reasons for the rating:- I never connected with either sister. That's a problem because the entire premise revolves around an attachment bordering on obsession with the younger. The older sister has no personality or identity of her own separate from her relationship to the younger. Maybe that's intended to be a profound revelation in itself, but...thud.- The older sister is the book's narrative voice and it's written in second person. It's a choice that makes logical sense, but the observing and reporting doesn't make a compelling story experience. - The older sister (who is only five years senior?!) acts as if she's a Miss Marple spinster-type, not an older 20-something. Instead of anchoring the story, that just weighs it down further. Bottom line: this is a thriller without the thrill, it doesn't get the blood pumping. The story is mechanically sound, I guess; but, I don't read thrillers for their mechanical soundness. This was all head, no heart. In what purports to have something to say about sisterhood, I didn't get any feels at all.I don't resent reading it, but I'm not sure who I'd recommend it to either.
    • 5/5
      It took me awhile to get used to the style of writing in this book as it is written the second person. Once I got past that, I thoroughly enjoyed the story. The main character finds out her sister is missing and then ultimately is dead. Her journey to find the truth of how her sister died was convoluted and heart breaking but eventually lead her to discover the truth. During her investigation she finally begins on the path to acceptance and healing. Very well written with many twists and turns. Great whodunnit novel.
    • 2/5
      I found that the author of this book just droned on and on without getting to the point. The ending was a total letdown and unbelievable .
    • 4/5
      Nothing can break the bond between sisters ...When Beatrice gets a frantic call in the middle of Sunday lunch to say that her younger sister, Tess, is missing, she boards the first flight home to London. But as she learns about the circumstances surrounding her sister's disappearance, she is stunned to discover how little she actually knows of her sister's life - and unprepared for the terrifying truths she must now face.The police, Beatrice's fiance and even their mother accept they have lost Tess but Beatrice refuses to give up on her. So she embarks on a dangerous journey to discover the truth, no matter the cost.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this novel which was a relief as I haven't been getting on that well with some of my recent choices! It is outside of my usual genre being fiction and non-Christian.

      The story is told by Beatrice whose sister Tess has gone missing whilst pregnant. Beatrice is writing a letter to her sister and tells the story through her writings. The author jumps backwards and forwards in the time line from the perspectives of the various characters. Maybe that sounds confusing. Normally I would agree but she skillfully pulls it off and I managed to follow the story. It is a novel that will keep you guessing right until the end with quite a few twists.

      The author's writing style is easy to read and her creativity flows from each page. There are a lot of unusual metaphors that worked really well. She captures the emotions of someone dealing with death extremely accurately and sensitively. She also deals with cystic fibrosis and genetic modification.

      The only drawback to this book was the occasional use of bad language. It wasn't frequent but was enough that I noticed it. As this is my own copy I have crossed all of the swearing through with a black pen so that when it goes in the charity shop the next reader won't be faced with it. I hope this doesn't result in them spending hours attempting to work out what the words were.....There are a few sexual scenes but nothing graphic and limited violence.

      I would recommend this book, even more so if you want to try and find my slightly edited copy in a used book store local to Banbury in England....
    • 5/5
      When her mom calls to tell her that Tess, her younger sister, is missing, Bee returns home to London on the first flight. She expects to find Tess and give her the usual lecture, the bossy big sister scolding her flighty baby sister for taking off without letting anyone know her plans. Tess has always been a free spirit, an artist who takes risks, while conservative Bee couldn't be more different. Bee is used to watching out for her wayward sibling and is fiercely protective of Tess (and has always been a little stern about her antics). But then Tess is found dead, apparently by her own hand. As a determined Bee gives her statement to the lead investigator, her story reveals a predator who got away with murder - and an obsession that may cost Bee her own life.
    • 5/5
      What a difficult novel to read, what a difficult novel to review. And I mean that as high praise for a work that is decidedly difficult to categorize.Beatrice's younger sister, art-student Tess, has either committed suicide (official version) or been murdered (Beatrice's version) after giving birth to a stillborn child, who received a cutting-edge cystic fibrosis cure in utero. Bee flies home to England from New York, where she has been living, to cope with the aftermath of her sister's death. The story is a first-person narrative, delivered as if Bee is speaking across the space of death to her sister: apologizing, holding key facts back, rationalizing, explaining her own behavior, compensating-- in short, running through every human emotion and action that accompanies a severe shock and an immense grief. Bee's own process of self-discovery ties into her investigative process of the truth about her sister's death brilliantly: in finding the truth about her sister, Bee finds the truth about herself. Tess leads Bee to her own person through a twisting, winding path, and the journey is complex and wonderful.As Bee breaks down everything that we supposedly know about her sister and everything she thought she knew about herself, she starts to build up new connections that she never would have thought possible: in the wake of death, Lupton shows us how we can rebuild life. Mothers, fathers, new friends, neighbors: all emerge as solidly-drawn portraits of the new people (or newly-realized) people in Bee's life, each with his or her own distinct personality, style of interaction, and way of dealing with death. Death affects so many, Lupton seems to say, but look how it brings us together, see how we all cope so variously, see how we can never afford to make trite generalizations about what happens when a life is taken away.The literary, mystery, suspense, epistolary: they all combine beautifully here, masterfully mixed by Lupton, who takes the best from each genre as she strings the reader along on a page-turning journey. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      Wow. Really tough book to get into, but I was determined to give it a chance -- and eventually, the pacing picks up a bit... but it is confusing in the beginning. An interesting tale of the bond of two sisters.
    • 2/5
      This a bit of a mixed affair. On one level it is a crime novel and on another level it is a book about a sibling relationship. The crime novel has a cheap twist at the end that left me feeling cheated and let down and the relationship between the sisters has been well travelled many times and maybe better. I may be being a bit hard but the twist really pissed me off.

      I have read many other novels with a twist at the end but they have always been more a reveal that was obvious after it was revealed and had been there all the way through. This one seems to serve no purpose except as a crutch for the author.

      I won’t spoil it in case I haven’t put you off. Other people like it. Whatever.
    • 4/5
      This book was very intriguing. I found myself having mixed feelings about it all the way through, until the very end. In the beginning, I was hooked by the plot and Beatrice's desire to find out how her younger sister died. During the middle chapters of the book, I felt that the storyline was dragging and I had already put my finger on how Tess died and who murdered her. At that point, I was just reading to see if I was right. When I reached the final chapters of the book there was another twist that was so unexpected that it completely changed my entire opinion about the novel. In the end I was impressed with the originality and creativity by Rosamund Lupton. To say the least, I was surprised by the conclusion of this book.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this totally engrossing story about two sisters. Partly a psychological thriller, but also largely a character study, it was a great read, (with a great surprise ending!)
    • 3/5
      A disappointing read for me after really enjoying another of her books, Three Hours. This suspense/ crime novel did not really flow for me and on a few occasions I felt she muddled up her tenses, probably because it was told in a first person narrative. It won’t put me off reading her other books though as she obviously improved after this first one.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book. It kept my interest, and kept me guessing, the whole time I was reading. The timing of the plot was not rushed and the book as a whole was well written.
    • 5/5
      This book kept me interested from start to finish. So well written and original. Will read more from this author!!
    • 2/5
      I think I was supposed to find this creepy or chilling or thought-provoking, but I mainly found it melodramatic and preposterous.
    • 3/5
      This book really draws you in from the opening page. I couldn't put it down. I can't wait to read more books by this author!
    • 4/5
      I found this a frustrating read - I wanted to like it, but found the writing style slow going and hard to navigate. For starters it's framed in a roundabout way - narrator Bee is looking back at the events surrounding her sister's disappearance, and the story consists of her talking to her absent sister about talking to a prosecutor about talking to the police about her sister's disappearance (got that?). Dialogue is constantly interrupted by Bee analysing people's posture, their facial expression, the things they might have wanted to say but didn't, and by the time you've got through all that you have forgotten what the person said in the first place. As a reader I like some things to be left for me to assume. If someone yells "STOP!" at the top of their voice, I'm capable of working out that they're in a state of agitation, but our Bee will no doubt explain that, as well as postulating several theories about why this might be. It's not necessary, it clogs up the narrative, and instead of being carried effortlessly through a conversation it's like trying to pick your way across a Lego strewn carpet.This aside, it was always a pleasure to pick up at the end of the day: it had a satisfying meatiness about it, and there was plenty going on. The detective element of it I found hard to swallow, relying as it did on multiple breaches of confidentiality which would never happen in real life (meaning that I was constantly reminded it was 'only' fiction), but it does pack a sizeable surprise at the end, which was really impressive, both in its capacity as a game-changer, and in the fact that I didn't for one moment see it coming.
    • 4/5
      Sometimes just after I start reading a book, I read the end. I'm glad that I didn't do that with 'Sister.' Although it was apparent that something wasn't quite right with the narrator's tale, I didn't guess what it was. When it became clear, it made sense which is a credit to Lupton. Overall, it was a well written, enjoyable book.
    • 4/5
      A well written book that kept me reading to find out what happened. I didn't care as much for the ending but it was a surprise. It's a suspense written by one sister in the form of a letter to her missing sister. You learn a lot about the character and life styles of both sisters and their relationship to each other and their mom.
    • 5/5
      Fabulous, haunting, debut novel by Rosamund Lupton. As soon as my Kindle hit the last page, I was ordering the next novel by Lupton.

      Bee has been called to London from New York because her younger sister, Tess, has gone missing. The story is told in an interesting way as we find out what happened to Tess early in the story but not the who or why. I could barely put this book down as the story unfolds. I could see why this book had such great reviews last year.


    • 2/5
      Thankfully I was able to get through this book club offering quickly (large font, widely-spaced lines), as I found it terrifically dull. It inspired no intellectual or emotional response in me other than mild annoyance. The number of reviews lauding the quality of the writing rather shocks me: I found it pedestrian in the extreme. No number of twists (is there one? two? I already can't remember) could make me engage with the plot or characters. NEXT!
    • 4/5
      A thriller in the form of a letter by a woman to her missing younger sister. At the end there is a ferocious twist.
    • 5/5
      Wow, I dealt with getting car sick just so I could keep reading this baby. Had to read the last pages over again because I couldn't believe the twist.
    • 4/5
      Another sad book but one I did enjoy and recommend others to read. The twist at the end was unexpected. The writing was beautiful as was the way the author dealt with the relationships between sisters and mother and daughters. Relationships are complex and sometimes not exactly what we think they are.
    • 4/5
      An excellent book! A murder mystery embedded in a novel. A tale of sisterhood, love, determination, and genetic enhancement vs. genetic therapy. I loved the phrase: "She panned life for gold every day....and found it!"
    • 4/5
      Double-frame convention ended up being a little awkward at the end...but otherwise quite interesting and fairly well-written. Yay for ending the year on a good read!