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Below the Big Blue Sky
- Narrated by: Simone Kirby
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Below the Big Blue Sky
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Summary
This audio edition features original music composed and recorded for the audiobook.
How does a family pick up the pieces when the one person who held them all together has gone?
When 40-year-old Rabbit Hayes dies, she leaves behind a family broken by grief. Her mother, Molly, is distraught and in danger of losing her faith. Her father, Jack, spends hour upon hour in the family attic, poring over his old diaries, losing himself in the past.
Rabbit's brother, Davey, finds himself suddenly guardian to her 12-year-old daughter, Juliet. Juliet might be able to fill a hole in Davey's heart - but how can he help Juliet through her grief when he can barely cope with his own?
Meanwhile, Rabbit's sister, Grace, is struggling with the knowledge that she carries the same gene that made her sister ill, and Rabbit's best friend, Marjorie, is lost, struggling to remain a part of a family she has always wished was her own now that her link to them is gone.
But even though the Hayes family are all fighting their own battles, they are drawn together by their love for Rabbit and their love for each other. In the years that follow her death they find new ways to celebrate and remember her, to find humour and hope in the face of tragedy, and to live life to its fullest, as Rabbit would have wanted.
Below the Big Blue Sky will make you laugh, cry and shout with joy for the colourful, unruly Hayes family as they battle with the loss of their beloved Rabbit, the daughter, mother, sister and friend, who in her own crazy way taught each of them how to live and goes on showing them how to love from beyond the grave.
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- FrancesN
- 13-08-20
Poignant funny and real
Loved the Last days of Rabbit Hayes and Brilliant to catch up with the family.
It bought back some personal experiences for me and unexpectedly answered some questions.
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- Love-my-Kindle
- 16-03-21
An incredible follow up.
I loved this book as much as The Last Days of Rabbit Hays. It's Grand.
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- Joolz
- 13-05-24
Beautiful
This book is full of tenderness and laughter. Read The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes first. Enjoy. They are both magical.
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- Donz
- 27-11-20
Wonderful
Absolutely wonderful. The fabulous Hayes family. I didn’t want this to end.
The narration is superb.
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-06-23
Family love
Wow what a story , I felt so many emotions. I highly recommend just brilliant.
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- Sally Adams
- 09-02-21
Brilliant!
I loved The Last days of Rabbit Hayes and this book carries on the story . It is brilliantly written . I laughed out loud and I cried it is such a tender subject which is handled so well . Below the Big Blue Sky is a must read especially if you have read The last days of Rabbit Hayes .
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- beckster
- 15-06-21
Fabulous!!
Such a brilliant book. First class narration. It has it all, tears of joy and sadness. Perfect 💕
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- olive ocarroll
- 31-08-20
Great funny and sad story of an inspiring Dublin Family
Each and everyone of us feels we played a part in some of this better sweet story, it portrays the life of many
a loving fun and mad family, great read
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- Melissa
- 07-04-22
Beautiful
Just beautiful… wonderful and powerful. Such a lovely family with a beautiful story which will make you laugh and cry in equal measure
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- Pippilapoo
- 18-09-23
Not as good as it's predecessor
This book is ok and I enjoyed it to an extent but it isn't nearly as good as 'The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes'. I just felt that this sequel wasn't necessary and didn't feel like the paths the characters undertook were true to what was introduced to in the first book. This irritated me quite a lot and made me disbelieve or not care for the ending. Personally, id have liked this novel to be summed up and placed as an epilogue to the first book.
I can understand why for some this novel was welcomed and enjoyed, but for me, it just felt unnecessary.
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