Now and Then Friends

Hartley-by-the-Sea, Book 2

By: Kate Hewitt

Narrated by: Jennifer Scapetis-Tycer

After her father left, Rachel had to dedicate her life to managing her household: her two younger sisters, her disabled mother, and her three-year-old nephew. When Rachel's not struggling to look after all of them, she makes her living cleaning the houses of wealthy families - including the Wests, where a surprise now awaits her....

A lifetime of drifting in other people's currents has finally left Claire high and dry. First it was her parents, then the popular crowd in school, and finally her fiancé. Now she's returned to Hartley-by-the-Sea to recover. But running into Rachel brings back memories of past mistakes, and Claire wonders if she now has the courage to make them right.

Soon Claire's brother, Andrew, asks Rachel to keep an eye on Claire, which is the last thing either woman wants. But as their lives threaten to fall apart, both Claire and Rachel begin to realize what they need most is a friend. The kind of friend they once were to each other and perhaps can be again….

©2016 Kate Hewitt Limited (P)2016 Tantor

Wrong narrator for this book

I loved the first book in the series with a different narrator. So I’m really disappointed that I can’t even finish this one because the narrator just destroys the book.

Couldn’t even finish it!

The narration is horrible! The narrator puts emphasis on bizarre words. Her inflections are so flat! The conversations are so halting and unnatural that I sometimes checked to see if the book had somehow paused, before the next line would come! And with a slow-moving story, this narration makes it difficult to get past the irritation and get into the characters. Very unpleasant!

Good story- bad narration

Rachel was a bit of a control freak IMO. It all had to be her way because that’s what she’s been used to because of having to play mom/dad to her sisters. She holds a grudge against a primary school friend who stopped talking then. The misunderstandings, the presumptions, stood in the way of starting over as adults. But, thankfully it all works out. What I hated was the narrator. I had to speed up the narration in order to enjoy it at all. This narrator, while does good enough different voices and accents, was just tooooo slow.

The likelihood this HAS happened is real!

Enjoyed the story. The narrator. The characters. It's nice to listen to a not-so-far-fetched plot that keeps you engaged. Well written!

Narration is oddly slow

I loved this story. One suggestion is that narration seems oddly slow. I ended up listening to it at 1.25 speed because it was driving me nuts at normal speed.