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No Time to Be Alone

By: Daniel Hurst
Narrated by: Deirdra Whelan
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Christmas. A time for family, friends . . . and enemies?

Nicola is returning to her family home for the Christmas holidays to spend the festive season with her loved ones for the first time in several years. But she gets a shock when she discovers that there will be an unexpected guest joining them for dinner on the big day. Their elderly neighbor, Barbara, will be present at the table too after receiving an invitation from Nicola's parents because they hated to think of the old woman spending the day alone.

That is a big problem for Nicola, although she struggles to let her family members know why. As far as they are concerned, Barbara is just the sweet old lady from next door. But Nicola knows the truth. That woman is not all she seems. And now she is in their house . . .

Forced to confront several demons from her past, Nicola struggles through Christmas Day. But as difficult as it is to face the past, nothing is as hard as what happens next. It seems that Barbara has been waiting for Nicola to return home after all these years. Now she has, things will never be the same again . . .

©2021 Daniel Hurst (P)2022 Tantor

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Good book but with child abuse

A well-written book but stories about child abuse make me very sad. I think if somebody had warned me, I wouldn’t have read it.

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I really liked the ending with a twist! Happy justice! A great story overall about the worst possible subject/ scenarios.

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Calling1

This was very sick family, and this happen All over the world right now as write review it is happening now

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Great book

Ignore sb reviews - another great one! Loved the twist and keeps you on the edge of your seat.

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Ignore SB's Reviews

I've noticed "SB" posts fake nasty reviews on all Daniel's books. Apparently it's personal and petty. The books have all been good and I am glad I recognized a vendetta and ignored them. If the person actually hated his writing so much, why keep buying every book as soon as it comes out?

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Really good

This book is worth listening to, it started a little slow but pick up really quick

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On Chapter 5 Boring" This Book is not for me'

this book is very slow it is boring and I'm only on chapter 5 and I don't even know what the problem is' it's taking forever to find out what has happened so there's really nothing to build upon' usually I know what's going on in the first couple chapters this book is putting me to sleep' it's not keeping my attention and I am not going to finish listening to it' it gives nothing to the reader to build upon I need something in the first couple chapters this has given me nothing but boring blah blah blah I would not recommend this book

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Terrible book- wordy and just not much of a story at all

Poorly written, no real plot, characters uninteresting, overly written to fill the pages. Not recommended.

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Boring

It was a strange ridiculous story, monotonous. Definitely don’t waste your time. Very boring and waste

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Trigger warning

Not what I hoped for in a story. Trigger warning for child abuse. This was boring, characters weren't developed and I guessed from the beginning what the premise of the story would be. Just could have been so much better.

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