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    A Song for Tomorrow
    A Song for Tomorrow
    A Song for Tomorrow
    Audiobook10 hours

    A Song for Tomorrow

    Written by Alice Peterson, Sandra Duncan and Luke Thompson

    Narrated by Miranda Cook

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    Tom fell in love with Alice the moment he saw her. He realises that being with her will not be easy, but she is a force of nature, a burst of sunlight in his otherwise ordinary world. 
     
    Some people might look at Alice and think she has everything, but Alice knows she is not like other women. Her life is complicated, unpredictable, difficult. Alice does not like pity. All she wants to do, has ever wanted to do, is sing.

    Alice has been told not to follow her dreams. So has Tom. But when fate has already dealt a tough hand, it’s time to stop listening to everyone else and only follow their hearts.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio UK
    Release dateMar 23, 2017
    ISBN9781471166198
    Author

    Alice Peterson

    Alice Peterson writes contemporary fiction with humour and compassion. Her novels always have the feel good factor, but she also aims to take the reader to a darker place where characters have to overcome adversity. This is partly due to Alice's own life experience of living with Rheumatoid Arthritis, which she wrote about in her memoir Another Alice. She has written four novels: Monday to Friday Man, which has sold over 500,000 copies across all editions, Ten Years On, By My Side and One Step Closer to You, which won the Festival of Romance's Best Romantic Read 2014.

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    • 5/5
      A very inspiring book! I didn't know anything about CF. An acquaintance had a child die with CF but I really had no idea what they go through.
    • 1/5
      A selfish main character who is so intent on pursuing her dream that she doesn't care about how it affects the people around her. Why would any record company give her a record deal knowing she has a very short life expectancy and she wouldn't ever be able to do all the touring and publicity that's needed for a pop career. Even knowing it's making her health worse she doesn't care about the impact on her family and friends.

      Very slow moving. One of very few books I've been tempted to give up on before the end. Stuck with it in the hope of a good ending but regretted wasting the time to finish it.
    • 5/5
      In the prologue, Mary learns that her newborn baby, Alice, has the genetic condition called cystic fibrosis. Her daughter’s life expectancy is about ten years. We then move forward twenty-six years. The two main characters are Alice, who has outlived her initial prognosis, and Tom, who is attracted to her. The book mostly switches between their viewpoints, and is very well written. The novel is based on the true story of a young woman called Alice Martineau, who was passionate about music and wanted to be a singer, despite her illness. Most of the names are changed, and some of the characters are entirely fictional. There are epilogues explaining this, from more than one perspective. The novel charts Alice’s determination to make an album of her music. She wrote lyrics, many of which are given in the book. This plot runs alongside her deteriorating health, and some side stories involving her close friends. The descriptions are vivid and sometimes moving without being overwhelming. Even the inevitable ending is surprisingly positive. All in all, I thought it a powerful and inspiring book and would recommend it highly.