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  • 500 Miles from You

  • A Novel
  • By: Jenny Colgan
  • Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
  • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,266 ratings)

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500 Miles from You

By: Jenny Colgan
Narrated by: Eilidh Beaton
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New York Times best-selling author Jenny Colgan returns to the beloved Scottish Highland town of Kirrinfief, which listeners first met in The Bookshop on the Shore, and adds a dash of London’s bustling urban landscape.

Lissie is a nurse in a gritty, hectic London neighborhood. Always terribly competent and good at keeping it all together, she’s been suffering quietly with PTSD after helping to save the victim of a shocking crime. Her supervisor quietly arranges for Lissie to spend a few months doing a much less demanding job in the little town of Kirrinfeif in Scottish Highlands, hoping that the change of scenery will help her heal. Lissie will be swapping places with Cormack, an Army veteran who’s Kirrinfeif’s easygoing nurse/paramedic/all-purpose medical man. Lissie’s never experienced small-town life, and Cormack’s never spent more than a day in a big city, but it seems like a swap that would do them both some good.

In London, the gentle Cormack is a fish out of the water; in Kirrinfief, the dynamic Lissie finds it hard to adjust to the quiet. But these two strangers are now in constant contact, taking over each other’s patients, endlessly emailing about anything and everything. Lissie and Cormack discover a new depth of feeling...for their profession and for each other.

But what will happen when Lissie and Cormack finally meet?

©2020 Jenny Colgan (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers

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One of my favorite authors.

I love this author. I was pleasantly surprised when the storyline tied into a previous book by the same author. Great subject, I really enjoy hearing about Scotland and the loch.

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Delightful.

Heartwarming and very enjoyable, just right for these bleak times. Narration is superb - I'd give it even more stars if I could.

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Wonderful

Love these characters and Scotland. Warm and charming romance that is fully realistic and also hopeful.

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Excellent!!!

This book was just... perfect. I keep thinking about it. The characters were so well-developed and the settings so beautifully contrasted. It was the perfect book to read when I was feeling anxious about real life. And the narration was superb!! I need to find more books by both the author and the narrator!

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One ofColgan'sBest

While I find most of Colgan's heroine charming but slightly more clueless than I can believe, Lissa in this story was more believable to me because I work with women with PTS and they can be just like Lissa! I found this a sweet and fun romance, with meaningful glimpses into the life of NHS workers. Great narration!

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Another enjoyable listen!

I’m really enjoying the books in this series. I appreciate that new characters and their stories are developed while previous characters are intertwined! Lovely!

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Lovely

Lovely cast of characters, lovely descriptions of the experience of living in a locale, lovely ending.

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Sweet

Excellent performance of a sweet, sweet story. I especially like the promotion of organ donation.

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Absolutely

I always enjoy Colgan’s books. This one was equally entertaining. The one thing that I’ve never noticed before is her use of the word “absolutely”. I don’t think I’ve ever read anyone who used a word more frequently than she! While her recurring character Patrick, who uses the word often, is adorable, I started to become fixated on the number of times the word was used throughout the story. It’s “absolutely “excessive! Somewhat distracted me from the story sometimes. Other than that, the narrator is always excellent and the story sweet.

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"that's hopeful romantic, if you please!"

the werewolves no vampires The witches how do you ever get by? sounds like a pretty boring book. it turns out ordinary men and women can turn a person on and create a nice little romance.

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