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    When We Believed in Mermaids: A Novel
    When We Believed in Mermaids: A Novel
    When We Believed in Mermaids: A Novel
    Audiobook11 hours

    When We Believed in Mermaids: A Novel

    Written by Barbara O'Neal

    Narrated by Sarah Naughton and Katherine Littrell

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    About this audiobook

    An Amazon Charts, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller.

    From the author of The Art of Inheriting Secrets comes an emotional new tale of two sisters, an ocean of lies, and a search for the truth.

    Her sister has been dead for fifteen years when she sees her on the TV news…

    Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It’s what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed. Yet all it takes is a few heart-wrenching seconds to upend Kit’s world. Live coverage of a club fire in Auckland has captured the image of a woman stumbling through the smoke and debris. Her resemblance to Josie is unbelievable. And unmistakable. With it comes a flood of emotions—grief, loss, and anger—that Kit finally has a chance to put to rest: by finding the sister who’s been living a lie.

    After arriving in New Zealand, Kit begins her journey with the memories of the past: of days spent on the beach with Josie. Of a lost teenage boy who’d become part of their family. And of a trauma that has haunted Kit and Josie their entire lives.

    Now, if two sisters are to reunite, it can only be by unearthing long-buried secrets and facing a devastating truth that has kept them apart far too long. To regain their relationship, they may have to lose everything.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 16, 2019
    ISBN9781978670044
    When We Believed in Mermaids: A Novel
    Author

    Barbara O'Neal

    Barbara O’Neal is the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Charts bestselling author of more than a dozen novels of women’s fiction, including the #1 Amazon Charts bestseller When We Believed in Mermaids as well as The Starfish Sisters, This Place of Wonder, The Lost Girls of Devon, Write My Name Across the Sky, and The Art of Inheriting Secrets. Her award-winning books have been published in over two dozen countries. She lives on the Oregon coast with her husband, a British endurance athlete who vows he’ll never lose his accent. For more information, visit barbaraoneal.com.

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    • 1/5
      Superficial, trite. First and last time reading something from this author.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      It was just ok.. Nothing to rave able. If you are wanting an easy book to read, this would be a good one

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    • 3/5
      It was enjoyable enough. Unbelievable, but it is fiction. Just ok.

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    • 1/5
      As a kiwi the accents were just so awful I had to stop 3 chapters in. Maybe better for me in print

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    • 5/5
      So captivating, I did not stop until I finished it.
    • 5/5
      Enjoyable. A little bit of everything drama, romance, mysteries. Highlights how in this and each life there are lives entwined. Authors descriptive language was beautiful at times. I’m ready to go to New Zealand now, ?
    • 5/5
      I loved this book so much. Made me cry several times. Such a beautiful and well written story
    • 4/5
      This was a very good and well written story. While I got tired of reading the references to their past and all the details of their memories, the other relationships woven in make the story whole.
    • 5/5
      The story connected with me: learning to forgive and love renewed.
    • 5/5
      Started a little slow, but was irresistible once the story got going.
    • 5/5
      So I’ve discovered my new favorite author! This is the second book of hers that I’ve read and I’m hooked. Love her style and the way she weaves the story, with real people and story lines that truly reflect life. Love this book, highly recommended.
    • 5/5
      Very well done! I liked how the story went back and forth between the sisters. The kiwi accents were a little overdone, but not obnoxiously so.
    • 5/5
      Absolutely loved the story, felt so real, so broken but at the same time so full of hope.
    • 3/5
      It was just okay for me. A little too sentimental for my taste.
    • 5/5
      Fabulous book with a wonderful ending! Makes me want to visit New Zealand!
    • 5/5
      Wow! One of my top favorite books of all time!
    • 5/5
      The human spirit will prevail. This is a hauntingly beautiful story of lost childhood, neglectful parents and the fierce relationship amongst the three children to survive and care for each other. A lovely story of secrets that hurt and nearly destroy the hard earned almost normal lives the two sisters have created for themselves. Love and joy. Sadness and forgiveness.
    • 5/5
      Heartfelt and full of honest emotion. You must have been a young woman of that general age to fully appreciate the changes in society and expectations between then and now, but the the story should ring true for readers who are younger. Love comes and lives in many variations but the essence that is always necessary can be found in the guts of this story. Enjoy.
    • 4/5
      It was a sweet book. I’m glad that I read it.
    • 5/5
      This was a lovely book. Loved the narration. Lots of flashbacks to the past, which sometimes can he hard to follow. I would recommend.
    • 5/5
      Excellent. A story about healing that includes mystery, suspense and heartbreak... wrapping up to be very heartwarming.
    • 5/5
      Great story & charactersI highly recommend this book and writer
    • 5/5
      Very good story! It was easy to follow and listen too.
    • 4/5
      A wonderful book with great characters and beautiful story. Great narration which always adds to an audio.
    • 5/5
      This was an amazing read. I am heartbroken to say goodbye to the characters and finish it!
    • 5/5
      I absolutely loved this story. The characters were very real and lovable even with all their flaws. A story about a not so perfect family with some mystery and romance thrown in there. Friends, family and forgiveness. Beautifully written!
      A definite recommend.
    • 3/5
      I would have given it 5 stars if you had left out the explicit sex scene descriptions. It was a good plot and otherwise good writing style. I don’t want or need a description of characters private acts. It can be insinuated with good writing skills.
    • 5/5
      Trigger warnings - child abuse/neglect, rape/molestation of minor, and drug and alcohol addiction. This book was dark but very human. Grab tissues and enjoy i loved it!!
    • 5/5
      I didn’t want the story end. It was fantastic from beginning to end.
    • 5/5
      This book started off slightly slow- but stick with it!!! I really, really loved it. It made me feel
      very present— tuning into my meals, my feelings, the people in my life. I think it’s her beautiful descriptions that got me to tune into life!! It’s a great love story but more importantly a great people story. It illustrates how siblings can grow up in the same home with the same parents and have two completely different upbringings. I highly recommend it.