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    The Lives She Left Behind: A beautifully written and compelling time-slip novel

    By James Long

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    One of the most brilliant timeslip novels ever written,The Lives She Left Behind will appeal to fans of The Time Traveller's Wife and Life After Life - and, of course, Ferney.

    In a Somerset village, a teenage boy confronts a teacher with a story he should know nothing about. The boy's impossible knowledge uncovers memories Michael Martin has done his utmost to forget - and soon propels him into danger.

    As Martin confronts his past once more, three girls arrive in the village of Pen Selwood, one of them drawn by an ancient instinct to find a man called Ferney. Her actions reignite a love story, an instinct that cannot be broken, irrespective of the hurt and danger it brings to those around them...

    A passionate love story that spans the centuries, fall under the spell of Ferney and Gally's enduring romance.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateOct 22, 2015
    ISBN9781471142987
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    The Lives She Left Behind: A beautifully written and compelling time-slip novel
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    James Long

    James Long has been making theatre since 1995. He directs the Theatre Replacement with Maiko Bae Yamamoto. As a freelance actor and director, he has had the pleasure of working with Rumble Productions, Neworld Theatre, Cindy Mochizuki, urban ink, Leaky Heaven Circus, The Chop, The Only Animal, Stan’s Cafe, CBC Radio, and Electric Company Theatre, among many others. He is a graduate of Simon Fraser University. In 2015, Talonbooks published his co-written play Winners and Losers.

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    • 4/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I found it much better than Ferney. I was a little less annoyed with Ferney's attitude this time around and I was completely enthralled with the story.
      I was confused at first because the story didn't follow on immediately from the ending of the previous book but I soon realised what was happening and I have to admit that I read late into the night - I just couldn't put it down.
    • 4/5
      This book gave nice closure to the story of Ferney and Gally. However, it was stressful to read as it isn't always a happy story. In my opinion, the ability of an author to make you care enough about the characters to provoke such an emotional response is the sign of a good book. The story of Ferney and Tally will stay with me for a long time.
    • 3/5
      The Lives She Left Behind by James LongCompared to Ferney this began as a novel, a work of fiction without the sense of a history textbook. I engaged right away and settled down to allow myself to become absorbed once more in this enthralling world of Ferney and Gally.We were introduced to some new characters that seemed to be more three-dimensional than some of the people encountered in Ferney. The interaction between the three girls and the young male archaeologists made me think that there would be something here for teen readers who enjoyed the Twilight saga. Mike Martin seemed much more of a person this time around and I did feel sorry for him on several occasions. And I would have relished giving Fleur and her poor parenting skills a slap from time to time!! But whilst I enjoyed the story and I wanted to ‘see what happened in the end’ my overall feeling was that the writing tended towards the amateurish. I got the same sense that I did with Ferney - a wonderful idea but the execution just doesn’t quite come off. I continually felt that the idea should been given to someone else to write who might have a better grasp of the fiction genre. Maybe a crime writer to deal with Mike’s ‘murder’ of Rosie and Gally? Val McDermid maybe?!! Phillipa Gregory to write the love story? The love of history and the acknowledgment that today all we have are documented facts, we never lived it so we will never really know what happened and we’ll never really know who these people were and how they really felt, came through for me more clearly than the whole time travel thing and became the strength of the book but I don’t believe that was the writer’s intention!! I dislike being negative about what I read but I do like being honest. And when I don’t like something I am usually able to say so without feeling as bad as I do about these books. I’ve never written a book, how I dare I sit here and criticise someone who has?And so these books will go on my shelf and probably gather dust because although I think I’d like to reread them again in case I’m seriously missing something I doubt I will summon that motivation.