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  • The Thing About Clare

  • Written by: Imogen Clark
  • Narrated by: Karen Cass
  • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
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The Thing About Clare

Written by: Imogen Clark
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Publisher's Summary

A dying wish. A devastating secret. Should the truth really stay buried?

The four Bliss siblings have a loving but complicated bond, but when their mother, Dorothy, dies seemingly without a will, this relationship is put to the test. As the mourning siblings try to make sense of the situation, one of them is caught with a secret: before she died, Dorothy entrusted her favourite daughter with her will and a letter - and told her to destroy them both.

Of course it was Anna their mother turned to for this mission. Miriam, the eldest, is far too sensible; Sebastian, the baby, too sensitive; and Clare, the middle child, has always been too rebellious to rely on, and long ago cut herself out of her siblings’ lives.

But what Anna finds in the documents could change everything. Do the other siblings not deserve to know what it is about them that their mother was so desperate to hide? And if it is revealed, will the Bliss family ever be the same again?

©2018 Imogen Clark. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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  • Debra Fein
  • 2019-01-09

Family Ties

Four sibs growing up in England. When mother dies there's a big secret revealed. The book reveals how finding out of the secret shakes things up. It's a good read, though I enjoyed 's Clark's other novel, Postcards from a Stranger more.

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  • Kimberly R. Erdman
  • 2021-04-21

Not as enjoyable

I wasn’t fond of the storyline in this book and I had a lot of trouble with the bad language. I realize that it was basically the one character but goodness, I don’t think she knew any other kind of language and it detracted from the story for me. I’m hesitant to read anymore from this author.

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  • Kindle Customer
  • 2020-09-10

made it halfway through

This book was just too depressing I had to give it up, chap.25. terribly disappointed

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  • Kindle Customer
  • 2019-12-16

The Thing About Clare

The audio was very well done on this year of an English family through the lives of their four children. It was well.written and the characters were very believable. I will read this author again.

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  • DeRoseBreathe
  • 2020-07-19

I really like this author!

What a great story of siblings and a wonderful mother and not too bad father and the poor 2nd daughter, it’s always the 2nd child. The forgotten one. It’s sad.
Great ending for her.

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  • Joyful55
  • 2023-04-02

Slow mover

Only made it to chapter 9. Couldn’t keep my attention. Narrator is good. Just not interesting.

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  • denise zellner
  • 2022-12-29

This story kept my interest.

Enjoyed listening to the narrator. Good story line Well rounded characters. Would read another from same author.

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  • Jay Carney
  • 2022-11-30

Enjoyed

It was a little depressing, but interesting and true to life. I always enjoy this author.

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  • Kimberly A. Minardi
  • 2022-11-16

Narrator probably the only thing that saved it

Though many people say that a narrator makes or breaks a story, in this case, she was the only one holding anything together. I’m sure that the author was trying to make the characters muti-faceted, but the “bad” characteristics seemed to take front and center stage for the most part. They weren’t bad people, but I certainly wouldn’t want to know them in real life. Disappointing since I loved the other 2 books that I have read by this author.

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  • Diane M. Santiago
  • 2022-06-17

Listen to it and I almost didn’t finish don’t read

It was just ok! Family troubles, family hierarchy, blah blah blah. No real substance as far as I was concerned. If it takes anyone 50 years to figure out they screwed up - that is waaaay too long