A Part of Me and You
By: Emma Heatherington / Narrated By: Madeleine Brolly
Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
Touching, tho’ it sometimes hits you over the head with emotion.
I’ve already admitted that I love chick lit, right? ‘Tisn’t all military history and self-development for me, no sir! So I was thrilled when A Part of Me and You was actually a pretty cheap audiobook once you checked out the ebook with Kindle Unlimited. Huzzah!
Juliette discovers that the cancer she’s been battling is finally going to beat her. And she learns this on her fortieth birthday. Wanting to leave good memories for her daughter, Rosie, she takes the two of them for a trip to a reclusive Irish town, kinda sorta hoping that she’ll run into the one-night-stand who is Rosie’s father.
Shelley is a woman half dead with grief who lives in that same Irish village. The loss of her daughter has left her frozen, fearful, unwilling to move on, to laugh, to do anything vaguely resembling living.
Naturally, the paths of all three women, well, two women and one young woman (Rosie, who’s a teen-ager), cross and they come to be just what is needed at the right moment in time.
And that’s where the book falters for a bit. I had a lump in my throat, brushed a few tears from my eyes for a while, but then there’s this whole looooong part of the book where all they do is say things like, “I can’t believe I’m opening up to you like this. It’s been so long, and I’ve been so dead inside”, and “Wow, isn’t it great that we’ve become such incredibly good friends and have become such integral parts of each others lives?” I mean, I GET IT!!! I really didn’t need to have it spelled out to me over and over.
Still, once we get past all that, we get back into plot, and Juliette’s health devolves, Shelley’s heart grows, secrets are revealed, and there’s a twist that I kinda had an inkling was coming but that was still exciting to listen to.
Well-narrated by both women, tho’ the woman who does Shelley’s voice has a bit of a lisp, the audiobook carried me away for quite some time, and I was pretty okay with it when all was said and done.
Would I have used a whole credit on it, paid full-price? Uhm, well? I guess not. But I certainly was pleased with it and like the fact that it’s in my Library now and that I can go back and re-listen to it whenever I want.
I’m kinda sorta a sap that way…!
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