When You're Gone

By: Brooke Harris

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon, Grainne Gillis

Compelling, heart-breaking, and emotionally vivid, When You’re Gone will break your heart and fix it anew. A gripping and emotional novel about family, love and sacrifice.

It is 1958: In a small town like Athenry, people talk. Everyone’s noticed that the injury which stopped Annie Fagan’s father from working doesn’t prevent him from hitting his wife. But a man’s home is his castle, and no one is going to intervene. Until Annie runs into Arthur ‘Sketch’ Talbot. Sketch is determined to help Annie, and the two soon fall in love. But Annie’s father won’t give his daughter up lightly, and Sketch’s attempts to save her will have devastating consequences....

Now: Holly’s world is falling apart. Her unborn baby is seriously ill, her relationship is fracturing before her eyes, and her Nana is dying. But Nana has one final wish before she leaves: to read, one last time, the handwritten story of her first – and last – love, Arthur ‘Sketch’ Talbot. As Holly reads to Nana, could it help her find the strength to face her own future? Could fulfilling her grandmother’s final wish really be a gift for Holly?

©2019 Brooke Harris (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd

Loved this story but hated the villain father- good character development!

Narrator did a great job bringing different characters voices to life- good character development and painting a picture of the area,village,orchard and homes!

Very well written

This is a story of a family that I think everybody can identify with. It certainly puts a point on gratitude and how we choose to look at our life’s circumstances. I very much enjoyed this book.

Twists and turns

This book has many twists and turns, ups and downs, both happy and sad. It kept my attention. Made it hard to put it down.

An amazing love story

I loved that the story was told from two different perspectives. Every character was built until you felt that you knew them. I loved it so much that I almost cried when it was over. I may start reading it again now!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Great story telling!

Storytelling at its best.
It was captivating from the first chapter.
A tragic love story set in the 1950's.
Narration was good