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    Wishbones
    Wishbones
    Wishbones
    Audiobook9 hours

    Wishbones

    Written by Virginia Macgregor

    Narrated by Imogen Wilde

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    About this audiobook

    Feather Tucker has two wishes:

    1)To get her mum healthy again

    2) To win the Junior UK swimming championships

    When Feather comes home on New Year’s Eve to find her mother – one of Britain’s most obese women- in a diabetic coma, she realises something has to be done to save her mum’s life. But when her Mum refuses to co-operate Feather realises that the problems run deeper than just her mum’s unhealthy appetite.

    Over time, Feather’s mission to help her Mum becomes an investigation. With the help of friends old and new, and the hindrance of runaway pet goat Houdini, Feather’s starting to uncover when her mum’s life began to spiral out of control and why. But can Feather fix it in time for her mum to watch her swim to victory? And can she save her family for good?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateMay 18, 2017
    ISBN9780008217310
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    • 5/5
      An extremely fun read, great characters, storyline, just very human. One of the best stories I have ever read.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this and think it should have a sequel. A great read. I also enjoed Perotta's Joe College.
    • 3/5
      Perrotta's "lad lit" book treats many of the same themes Nick Hornby addresses in High Fidelity - music, commitment, a no-longer-young man facing himself and making choices about who he wants to become - but with little of the nuance and generosity of spirit that Hornby summons. Perrotta's women exist solely to make a point about the men they accompany, not as fully realized characters in their own right, and his "nice guy" protagonist Dave doesn't grow up so much as fall into marriage with his long-time sweetheart. She's no prize either, encouraging him to give up the one thing that's been a meaningful constant to him since his teen years. Perrotta's take on relationships is both depressing and juvenile, but his easy style and smooth plotting at least make this a breeze to read.
    • 4/5
      This was a reread of what should be considered a classic tale of the “drifter” generation: the one that missed the love and peace of the ‘60s but was too old to be the Boomers’ spoiled children. Dave, the main character, is conducting an aimless life as a guitarist in a wedding band who accidentally becomes engaged to his girlfriend of 15 years, then just as haphazardly begins an affair with another girl weeks before his wedding. Dave can’t seem to feel passionate about anything, and perhaps that’s why he has no purpose. But we like him despite that, as well as his cronies in the band, and when they really start to rock together, we are right there with them, asking for just one more song.
    • 5/5
      If it wasn't about a bunch of 30-and 40-somethings, this could almost have been one of those teen reads I used to get out of the library twenty five years ago. I could feel the gravitational pull of a happy ending from very early on, it was just a matter of how schmalzy it was going to be, and whether it was going to make me want to throw up.Top marks to this author, he managed to pull off a really witty story with enough going on to make it interesting, peopled by characters with plenty of bad points so they weren't just cardboard cut-outs. Clearly there were never going to be any major tragedies here, it was tightrope walking with a big fat safety net. But on the other hand, sometimes you want a straightforward read, and a story that isn't clouded by symbolism or couched in flowery language. A read that is, above, all, fun. That's exactly what this book was, and though it ws a bit cheesy at the end, there was just enough grit in there to counteract the cheese. He even managed to work some Nazis into the plot somehow. Sort of chick-lit with a side order of punch-ups and bad hygiene in the Gents'. Great!