IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS by Therese Anne Fowler, read by Barrie Kreinik - audiobook extract
'How differently the Geller sisters' lives would have turned out had C.J. Reynolds not been released from prison that February....'\n\nMarti Geller is going to die soon, and she's hoping to take her secrets with her.\n\nTo do this, Marti has stipulated in her will that the family's summer home on Mount Desert Island, Maine, must be sold as soon as possible. This request comes as a shock to her three daughters, a trio of strong-minded women who are each hiding a secret of their own.\n\nFor the eldest daughter, Beck, the Maine cottage is essential to her secret wish to write a novel, and selling is the last thing she wants to do. But recently divorced Claire is privately too preoccupied with an unrequited love to be concerned about the sale, while the youngest daughter, Sophie, would never admit to her sisters that she desperately needs the sale in order to survive.\n\nWhile the sisters argue over the fate of their late mother's property, enigmatic Southerner C.J. Reynolds, with his own troubled past, is released from prison and begins to travel to Mount Desert Island.\n\nAs this seemingly unconnected group all head for the coast of Maine, nothing is as it seems.\n\nAnd everything is about to change....\n\nThe new novel from New York Times best-selling author Therese Anne Fowler follows three sisters in the aftermath of the death of their matriarch, whose last request might change everything.... Perfect for fans of Celeste Ng, Mary Beth Keane and Jodi Picoult.