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Do Not Feed the Bear

By: Rachel Elliott
Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick, Esther Wane
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A life-affirming novel of love, loss and letting go - for fans of Eleanor Oliphant, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep and When God Was a Rabbit.

On her 47th birthday, Sydney Smith stands on a rooftop and prepares to jump.... 

Sydney is a cartoonist and freerunner. Feet constantly twitching, always teetering on the edge of life, she's never come to terms with the event that ripped her family apart when she was 10 years old. And so, on a birthday that she doesn't want to celebrate, she returns alone to St Ives to face up to her guilt and grief. It's a trip that turns out to be life-changing - and not only for herself.

Do Not Feed the Bear is a book about lives not yet lived, about the kindness of others and about how, when our worlds stop, we find a way to keep on moving. 

©2019 Rachel Elliott (P)2019 Headline Publishing Group Ltd

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Good message, rounds out nicely.

Can get confusing following so many characters’ introspection and delusions, but if you stay with it it all makes sense. I enjoyed the dog’s perspective. I cannot figure out why they needed two different narrators. The male narrator did multiple people’s chapters, so I think either a different narrator for each character’s chapter...or just one narrator would have been less confusing.

I liked the inclusion of asexual and gender queer characters and their resolutions. And for a drama it is decent, though not a tear-jerker. It kept me interested throughout, at some points I chuckled out loud.

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