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Necessary Restorations

Written by: Kate Canterbary
Narrated by: Christian Fox, Lucy Rivers
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Sam Walsh is hanging on by a thread.

He works hard at concealing his chronic illnesses and represses the lingering pains of childhood, but he's running out of vices to distract him from his wounds.

Nothing feels good anymore. Not his prize-winning work preserving historic homes, not the family that refuses to give up on him even when he's at his most self-destructive. The only thing he wants is the conservatory-trained chaos he meets in a stalled elevator car. She's the friend he never asked for and can't imagine living without. Then, she's more than a friend. She's everything.

Tiel Desai is not the same person she used to be. She's finally found a place for herself in Boston, leaving the rejection and disappointment of her past behind. She keeps herself too busy to think about any of it, her days spent in grad school and with neurodivergent children in her music therapy practice, her nights devoted to the city’s underground music scene. She's learned how to get by—until Sam Walsh crashes into her world. He up-ends everything and takes spaces in her life she didn't know she had to give.

They find more in each other than they ever realized they were missing.

But finding it might not be enough to keep it—or each other.

©2015 Kate Canterbary (P)2016 Tantor
Women's Fiction Contemporary
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Ugh! Sam Walsh - who could not love this man!

Necessary Restorations
Narrators: Christian Fox & Lucy Rivers
Author: Kate Canterbary

Sam Walsh, snappy dresser, player and highly regarded in his field of architecture. Sam comes with issues though, he has diabetes and carries a heavy emotional load from his youth. The day he meets Tiel becomes the beginning of Sam’s personal restoration. Tiel is vivacious, went to Juilliard and works with children in the Autistic Spectrum through music. Loves music, is a foodie and keeps to herself and has very few friends. That all comes from her upbringing, the only one in her family who went to University and not stayed to work in the family restaurant.
In words this story touched me, with narration it took me on a truly emotional journey with both of these characters.
Another of Kate Canterbary’s stories that comes to life and opens you to feel the emotional ride these two characters go on. Christian Fox and Lucy Rivers bring a strong game to the Walsh Family audiobooks, just when you think Kate Canterbary's books can't get any better, you find out the audio book take listeners to the next level of pure enjoyment.

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