Afterwards, Rosamund Lupton
Afterwards, Rosamund Lupton
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Afterwards
The Sunday Times and top-ten bestseller

Author: Rosamund Lupton

Narrator: Finty Williams

Unabridged: 12 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/09/2011

Synopsis

There is a fire and they are in There. They are in there . . .

Black smoke stains a summer blue sky. A school is on fire. And one mother, Grace, sees the smoke and runs. She knows her teenage daughter Jenny is inside. She runs into the burning building to rescue her.

Afterwards, Grace must find the identity of the arsonist and protect her family from the person who's still intent on destroying them. Afterwards, she must fight the limits of her physical strength and discover the limitlessness of love.

About Rosamund Lupton

Rosamund Lupton is the author of Sister, a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and a bestseller in Europe. Published in the UK by Little, Brown Book Group, Sister has been translated into over thirty languages and has international sales of over 1.5 million copies. It was the fastest-selling debut of 2010 by a British author, a BBC Radio 4, Book at Bedtime and was winner of the Richard and Judy Best Debut Novel of 2011 award and the Strand Magazine Critics First Novel Award. Film rights of Sister are currently under option with Studio Canal, to produce with Kevin McCormick of Langley St Pictures. Emily Blunt is attached to star and the script is in development. Lupton's critically acclaimed second novel Afterwards also went straight into the Sunday Times bestseller lists and was the No. 2 Sunday Times fiction bestseller of 2011, with UK sales alone of more than 200,000 copies. The Quality of Silence is her third novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Belinda

5 stars -Dutch paperback - 🍀🍀🍀 Quote from the book : Arson, sombody on purpose set fire to te school .....🥀🥀🥀 Later is the second novel of Rosamund Lipton. It sucks you instantly into the story. A crime is committed and mother and daughter fighting for their lives. One has to let go of live and family......more

Goodreads review by Jessie Leigh

Read This Review And More Like It On My Blog! 3.25 out of 5 Afterwards was a lot of things for me: frustrating, alienating, weird, intriguing, and eventually, quite moving. There's a lot of hype built around this newish author, largely due to the wild success and continued love for her first novel, Si......more

Goodreads review by Hannah

This book was a good story, on the face of it, as long as you don't look too closely. Lupton is really good at getting across emotions, especially love, and the book is really touching as a result. But as I said, you can't look too closely. Too many characters are under-developed and when you find ou......more

Goodreads review by Luanne

I read Rosamund Lupton's debut novel 'Sister' last year. You may remember me raving about it - it was a fantastic read. I jumped at the chance to read her second novel - Afterwards. Another absolutely brilliant read - one I would highly, highly recommend! I was hooked from the opening paragraph of t......more

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