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    I Liked My Life: A Novel
    I Liked My Life: A Novel
    I Liked My Life: A Novel
    Audiobook9 hours

    I Liked My Life: A Novel

    Written by Abby Fabiaschi

    Narrated by Susan Bennett, Dan Bittner and Therese Plummer

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    “An emotional journey of love, loss, healing, and redemption. I rooted for every character.” —Lisa See, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Snow Flower and The Secret Fan

    “I Liked My Life is a treasure of a novel. Warm-hearted and clever, the story will keep you reading until the final delicious revelation.” —Diane Chamberlain, New York Times and USA Todaybestselling author

    “Warm and hopeful, this marvelous debut stands next to novels from Catherine McKenzie and Carolyn Parkhurst.” —Booklist (starred)

    A story from debut author Abby Fabiaschi that is "as absorbing as it is illuminating, and as witty as it is heartbreaking."

    Maddy is a devoted stay-at-home wife and mother, host of excellent parties, giver of thoughtful gifts, and bestower of a searingly perceptive piece of advice or two. She is the cornerstone of her family, a true matriarch...until she commits suicide, leaving her husband Brady and teenage daughter Eve heartbroken and reeling, wondering what happened. How could the exuberant, exacting woman they loved disappear so abruptly, seemingly without reason, from their lives? How they can possibly continue without her? As they sift through details of her last days, trying to understand the woman they thought they knew, Brady and Eve are forced to come to terms with unsettling truths.

    Maddy, however, isn’t ready to leave her family forever. Watching from beyond, she tries to find the perfect replacement for herself. Along comes Rory: pretty, caring, and spontaneous, with just the right bit of edge...but who also harbors a tragedy of her own. Will the mystery of Maddy ever come to rest? And can her family make peace with their history and begin to heal?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJan 31, 2017
    ISBN9781427282316
    I Liked My Life: A Novel
    Author

    Abby Fabiaschi

    ABBY FABIASCHI graduated from The Taft School in 1998 and Babson College in 2002. She is a human rights advocate and co-founder of Empower Her Network, a nonprofit that paves a path for survivors of human trafficking with a will for independence. In 2012 Abby resigned from her executive post in high tech to pursue a career in writing. I LIKED MY LIFE is her first novel. She and her family divide their time between West Hartford, Connecticut, and Park City, Utah.

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    • 4/5
      A really good book and makes you question how you treat the people you have in your life now. The only thing I didn’t like about this book is the daughter, she is a rude person and it shouldn’t take someone death to realize that
    • 5/5
      Prophetic and deeply pround book of wisdom about loss, love, and living again. So very good.