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Before Herring Cove Road: Ruth Goldman and the Nincompoop
- The Prequel of the Herring Cove Road Series
- Narrated by: Steve Hart
- Series: Herring Cove Road, Book 0
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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The prequel to Herring Cove Road series from the Not-So-Nuclear Family Saga series.
With her mother's death two years before, her father's recent marriage to a woman she doesn't get along with, and then, finding herself engaged to a man she isn't even sure she loves, Ruth Goldman has decided to take a year off to discover what she wants in life.
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