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Only a Mother
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Only a mother
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- Kelly
- 01-03-19
Wonderful
Everything an audiobook should be. Fantastic narration, well fleshed out characters, suspense, thrilling twist, sadness, I could not have loved a better book. In fact, I'm surprised it's not new popular but I guess it wasn't hyped much.
I hope it gets the recognition it deserves.
Bravo Ms Carpenter!
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- AudaciousMe
- 02-21-21
Good story. I Will probably listen again
This author shines at making characters that are 3 dimensional and memorable. I can still tell you about the characters in 99 Red Balloons and I cared for them. Only a Mother has good characters, not as endearing
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- Kim shields
- 05-01-20
My new favourite story teller!
Great book! Gets you right from start to finish. Narration was excellent! Elizebeth Carpenter’s books are such good listens. Stories are funny, sad, full of twists and turns and you really get such a great understanding of her characters. On a binge of her work! Just one more to go and can’t wait for more books to come from this very talented author! Thank you Elizabeth loving your books.
