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The Bench

By: Saskia Sarginson
Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
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Richard and Judy and international best-selling author.

A tragic love story spanning three decades, The Bench is Saskia Sarginson's most accomplished and heart-rending novel to date. For fans of One Day and A Star Is Born.

'We should have a plaque too,' he says. 'What would it say?'

I tilt my head. 'For Cat and Sam, who found each other and lost each other and found each other again,' I suggest.

It begins at the end.

It begins on a bench, on a heath, where a woman waits for a man.

Ten years ago, they made a pact:

On this bench, on this day, they will end a love affair that's spanned three decades, or start again.

They should never have met. They should never have fallen in love.

But they did, until a lie separated them for a lifetime.

Can they fix the mistake, forgive the lie, erase the years in between?

Can what was lost ever truly be found?

©2020 Saskia Sarginson (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance Heartfelt

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Critic reviews

"With echoes of David Nicholls's One Day, this romance has just the right mix of heart-melting moments and heart-rending near misses." (Good Housekeeping)

"A wonderful, heart-tugging romance." (Prima)
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I loved this book! I laughed and cried my way through it in 3 days. Beautiful story!

Beautiful

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But! you get to the end and it’s so rushed! We want to know what they did in the end not just a brief epilogue of something we’ve been desperate for through out the book! Would totally recommend it though I couldn’t stop listening.

Beautiful story...

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I absolutely loved this book - I couldn't wait to get to the end to find out what happened to Sam and Kat but at the same time I didn't want to finish it! I thought that Stephanie Cannon's narration was superb - she really brought the characters to life! Can't wait to listen to more by Saskia Sarginson and will be buying the book for my mum to read.

Heartbreakingly beautiful

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