Category:
Adults,
Bestsellers,
Suspense,
ThrillerLanguage:
EnglishKeywords:
Fiction Suspense ThrillerWritten by Lisa Jewell
Read by Antonia Beamish
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
After her grandmother Arlette’s death, Betty is finally ready to begin her life. She had forfeited university, parties, boyfriends, summer jobs - all the usual preoccupations of a woman her age - in order to care for Arlette.
Now she’s ready for whatever life throws at her, and, since the will included a beneficiary unknown to her who lives in the city, she heads there to find the mysterious woman….
In 1920s London, Arlette is starting her new life in a time of postwar change. Beautiful and charismatic, she’s drawn into a hedonistic world, but then tragedy strikes, and she flees back to her childhood home….
When Betty’s search leads her to a man - someone who meant the world to her grandmother - the secrets of Arlette’s past may help Betty find her own way to happiness in the present….
A rich detective story and a captivating look at London then and now, Before I Met You is an unforgettable novel about two very different women, separated by 70 years but united by big hearts and even bigger dreams.