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    Bygones
    Bygones
    Bygones
    Audiobook12 hours

    Bygones

    Written by Lavyrle Spencer

    Narrated by Emily Sutton-Smith

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    About this audiobook

    Bess Curran, forty, is an interior designer in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, still lonely and bitter after her traumatic divorce six years earlier. Her adult daughter, Lisa, anxious for her parents to reconcile, arranges a surprise dinner meeting where she informs them that she is pregnant and about to marry. Bess and former husband Michael (he left her for another woman, who, in turn, has just left him) can barely control their mutual animosity yet must come to grips with the startling news. To exacerbate matters, their nineteen-year-old son, Randy, is intractably hostile toward his father and seems headed for a future of drugs and unsavory companions. Bess and Michael are attracted to each other but wary-they're suffering and groping for help.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 13, 2021
    ISBN9781666135688
    Bygones
    Author

    Lavyrle Spencer

    LaVyrle Spencer is the author of numerous nationally bestselling novels, including Family Blessings, Home Song, That Camden Summer, and Small Town Girl. She lives in Minnesota.

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    • 1/5
      Misogynistic nonsense! I am so grossed out by this book, it’s aged like milk.
    • 5/5
      Excellent book ! I love reading this author ‘s books, and I have enjoyed her writing.