My Life Before Me

Name: My Life Before Me
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Norah McClintock
ISBN: 9781459810938

Author: Norah McClintock

Series: Seven Secrets

Narrator: Karen Rowe

Unabridged: 5 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers

Published: 09/29/2015

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Mystery & Detective, Family

Synopsis

Cady has always wanted to be a reporter, like her hero Nellie Bly, so after a fire burns down the orphanage she lives in, she’s ready to leave small-town Ontario and make her mark as a newspaperwoman. A crumbling newspaper clipping leads her to Orrenstown, Indiana, where her investigation into a long-ago murder earns her a hard lesson in race relations. Smart and determined, and more than a little headstrong, Cady pokes a stick into a wasp’s nest of lies, dirty politics, corrupt law enforcement and racial tension—and ends up fearing for her life as she closes in on something she’s never cared about before—the truth about her own origins.

Part of the SECRETS—a series of seven linked novels that can be read in any order.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Short on February 04, 2017

Cady is my favourite character out of the Seven so far, aside from Malou. They're the only two characters that are actually interesting people.......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on August 18, 2015

Reading Life Before Me after all of the other six books in the Seven Secrets series has given me an interesting perspective on both it and the rest of the series as a whole. Her unique perspective as someone who doesn't have a personal interest in the outcome of solving the mystery, but rather a pro......more

Goodreads review by Cecily on September 01, 2019

I loved this investigative style story and I am sure there are a lot of people who can trace back their history to something similar and sad happening in their past. The story was a quick read and good writing. Good Read!......more

Goodreads review by Cadence on September 12, 2023

Im about to cry......more

Goodreads review by Amev1 on September 06, 2016

Interesting reading some of the reviews, I'm not sure why there is such dislike of the main character. So, let's start with the timeline. This is set in 1960's middle America. Umm, yeah, if you were of color you did not have a voice. Being upset that a white girl was able to "break the case" just se......more