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    Now That You Mention It
    Now That You Mention It
    Now That You Mention It
    Audiobook11 hours

    Now That You Mention It

    Written by Kristan Higgins

    Narrated by Xe Sands

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    About this audiobook

    Following the success of IF YOU ONLY KNEW and ON SECOND THOUGHT comes the highly anticipated new novel by New York Times bestselling author Higgins; a funny and bittersweet story of a woman who returns to her hometown after a decade's absence hoping to resuscitate her relationship with her family, only to discover that her homecoming is not as welcome as she had imagined. It's been over a decade since Nora left her hometown of Scupper Island, Maine, and very seldom looked back. She's carved out a successful life in Boston where no one knows her as the awkward girl with the delinquent sister and the dad who left, but a not-as-dramatic-as-it-sounds brush with death has her taking stock of her life. Inspired to reconnect with her prickly mother and snarky teenage niece, Nora returns home for the summer, where she's forced to face the people she's spent the last ten years trying to avoid, and where some revelations about her family could either heal her, or send her scrambling back to Boston on the next ferry.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 26, 2017
    ISBN9781501955655
    Now That You Mention It
    Author

    Kristan Higgins

    Kristan Higgins is the New York Times, Publishers Weekly and USA TODAY bestselling author whose books have been translated into more than twenty languages. She has received dozens of awards and accolades, including starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The New York Journal of Books and Kirkus. Kristan lives in Connecticut with her heroic firefighter husband, two atypically affectionate children, a neurotic rescue mutt and an occasionally friendly cat.

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    Readers find this title to be a refreshing and enjoyable read. The characters are charming and the plot is interesting. The book has a good balance of lightness and substance, making it engaging and memorable. It can evoke both laughter and tears, and the author's storytelling is relatable and engaging. Overall, readers love this book and it keeps their interest all the way through.

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    • 5/5
      Very good! I love Nora and Sullivan falling in love.
    • 5/5
      Was a refreshing read. Light but with enough substance to make you want to continue.
    • 5/5
      I love this book. It makes you laugh and cry! The best author, I swear she is writing stories about me!
    • 5/5
      Just loved this book. It could make you cry & laugh. Just awesome! Off to find another book !
    • 5/5
      Memorable characters, interesting plot, some nail biting moments and sometimes very funny. The heroine was very engaging and she had a believable character arc. It kept my interest all the way through
    • 5/5
      The characters are charming. I enjoyed getting to know them all.
    • 5/5
      I was couldn’t stop listening to this audiobook!!! It was the best book I have listen to in months.
    • 4/5
      Nora leaves her doctor boyfriend (who is ready to break up) and heads home to recover from being hit by a car. But home isn't a welcoming place - she was bullied as a teen and has been blamed for the poor choices of her scholastic competition in highschool. There is trauma in her family life (father abandoned them, sister is in jail) but eventually all the secrets start to come out - in her early life and in her adult life as well. Nora's journey coming to terms with the realities of her life also give her a path to healing.
    • 5/5
      Now That You Mention It by Kristan Higgins is a laugh out loud, tear inducing journey of healing and redemption.

      Needing a place to recover after an accident, Dr. Nora Stuart heads back to Scupper Island, Maine where she hopes to salvage her distant relationship with her mother, Sharon and niece, Poe.  Since she left the island fifteen years earlier under a cloud of controversy, not many of the residents are happy to see her. Even worse, many of them do not even know who she is since apparently her mom talks only mentions her younger sister, Lily. Once she is well enough to live on her own, Nora moves onto a beautiful houseboat which puts in her close proximity to Sullivan "Sully" Fletcher, his lovely teenage daughter Audrey and Sully's twin brother Luke, who is still holding onto a long term resentment towards Nora. With her return to Boston fast approaching, will Nora remain on the island where she has unexpectedly found peace, healing and possibly love?

      Nora and Lily were never quite the same after their father unexpectedly abandoned them when they were kids. Lily turned her back on her sister and became a part of the popular crowd where she turned into a mean girl who ran wild. Nora comforted herself with food and after becoming an overweight social outcast, she concentrated on academic achievements in hopes of receiving a coveted scholarship.

      Reinventing herself after entering college, Nora has rarely returned to Scupper Island over the intervening years which results in a distant and unemotional relationship with her pragmatic Maine mother. She also mourns the lack of any connection with Lily but Nora refuses to give up trying to reach salvage their fractured relationship.  She is determined to forge a bond with her niece Poe but Poe is not exactly willing to forgive and forget her aunt's protracted absence from her life.

      Nora is a wonderful protagonist who has endured more than her fair share of tragedy and adversity yet she remains upbeat and positive. She has not fully resolved her guilt from winning the scholarship that changed her life but she is proud of her successes. Nora is a survivor who does not let life defeat her and she is tenacious as she tries to repair her familial relationships. She has a snarky sense of humor and her zingy one-lines and inner monologue are often laugh out loud funny.

      With several memorable scenes that are absolutely hilarious, a heartwarming yet understated romance and a sweet reconnection with Nora's estranged family,  Now That You Mention It is a truly captivating story of healing and reconciliation. Kristan Higgins brings the characters and settings vibrantly to life through descriptive prose and an incredibly engaging storyline.  Readers will savor every word of this humorous and poignant novel.
    • 4/5
      My sister recommended [Now That You Mention It] and I too found it to be a solid good read though not really what I expected from Kristan Higgins. It took a bit of time to feel invested in the main character who at first I found a bit cold. As Nora's backstory unfolded, however, I found myself cheering for her and so her troubled family. I did find it a bit unrealistic that everyone in town maintained such hostility toward her for winning that scholarship - since she went on to be a doctor while the so-called "golden boy" Luke wrecked his car days later while drunk and high (also causing a permanent disability in his brother), it seems like people should have figured out she was always the better candidate! Overall the storyline was much darker than I expected, and I found the final resolution with Luke to be over the top. Nevertheless, a decent read - 4 stars.
    • 4/5
      My 1st Kristan Higgins. Entertaining, heart warming story of a young woman who left home as an overweight teenager, teased and shamed high school student, abandoned by her sister (the smart, skinny good looking daughter); and her father who left one day when she was in middle school. No real relationship with her sturdy, no nonsense mother after being accused of stealing the Perez Scholarship(free ride to Tufts University) from the popular handsome Luke Fletcher. Emotional Ride with Nora - as she comes back home after 17 years. She's a doctor now, recovering from getting hit by a truck, break-up from her emergency room doctor boyfriend and still dealing with the "Big Bad Event" attack. She is seeking answers, trying to connect with her mother, Sister, niece & her love of the island. A real easy flowing story, with great characters and a great Narrator on Audible Audio.
    • 4/5
      Good summer read. Read something else by this author so I thought I'd try this.
    • 4/5
      I can’t recall where I first noticed this book, but I’m glad I didn’t research the author before deciding to read it. Higgins is primarily a romance writer, but one of the comic variety and the lady does know how to write funny. Nothing bust-a-gut, but wryly amusing and of the shake-your-head variety. With this book and one or two others, she is said to be writing a bit more toward the family relationship angle than the romance, but it’s there and it’s good. The whole thing is like she’s channelling Maeve Binchy. I’d read more in this vein since it was enjoyable, relaxing and not stressful.
    • 5/5
      I could almost believe that Higgins really IS a gastroenterologist in real life---even though she only "plays" the part as the author of this really readable book. This is the first book I have read by Higgins so i am delighted to see that I am way behind---she has written LOTS!!!
    • 4/5
      There's a lot more to this novel than the light-hearted romance that the overall tone suggests. Yes, it is funny, and yes, the characters (many of them, anyway) are engaging. But bad things can happen to good people, and in this novel, they do. To me, looking at how the characters cope with this, how they grow and change, is truly interesting and involving. It's also a novel that looks at what it means to be a woman in today's world, and at what it means to be a human being. Good read: thought provoking.
    • 5/5
      Dr. Nora Stuart is hit by a van and wakes up to find her boyfriend propositioning the resident. She dumps him (sort of - they have shared custody of their wonderful dog, Boomer) and returns to the small island off the coast of Maine where she can recover from her injuries. Her mom is one of those laconic Mainers (quote from the book: It was Maine. Conversation wasn't really our thing.) who is taking care of Nora's niece, Poe, whose mother is in jail in Seattle. Nora couldn't wait to get off the island once she was done with high school, but she wants to make peace with the people she left behind.This includes twin brothers Luke and Sullivan Fletcher. Nora beat Luke for a scholarship back in high school, and he's never forgiven her for ruining his life. She blames herself for the accident he caused as a result of that loss that gave his brother a traumatic brain injury. Sullivan has recovered except for a gradually growing deafness.Scupper Island has a wonderful cast of characters. Nora makes some good friends and discovers hidden facets of her family. An enduring mystery is what happened to her father who disappeared when she and her sister were quite young. Gradually, Nora regains the sense of self and self-confidence she lost during the BBE (Big Bad Event - a traumatic occurrence in Boston before her accident with the van). Ms. Higgins always has several scenes that make me laugh out loud; the dinner party and the first date are highlights here. Yet there are also serious parts to this book and a lot to think about. This is a woman's book from the teens (Poe and Abigail), Nora's friends and her sister, and Sharon (Nora's mother). There's some great writing here. Some of it's funny; when Nora is hit by the van:I was hit by a car, and according to the Hallmark Channel, I'm supposed to come home.Some of it's very serious:You wonder how much abuse you can take and still love someone. You wonder how long they can treat you like nothing but still want them back. You wonder how many years it will take to forget how things used to be, how long you'll burn yourself with that tiny ember of hop before the deluge of their neglect drowns it.This is a wonderful book. I only hope Ms. Higgins returns to Scupper Island - soon.
    • 4/5
      Few things brighten my day like a new Kristan Higgins book :)Nora's story, like just about everything else Kristan writes, is at times laugh-out-loud funny. Seriously. I don't know how she comes up with some of the situations she puts her characters in (some of them I probably don't want to know...) but ohmygoodness, they are hysterical. She also hits the nail right on the head with regards to relationships--whether it's family or friends, Kristan's writing always rings true.And then you throw in the romantic elements...swoon...I do have to say, though, that though she's been drifting more in the direction of women's fiction with her last few books, that this is the first one where the romance really felt like it took a back seat to the rest of the story. Nora and Sully's relationship moves really sloooowly...and at one point looks like it's going to be a non-starter...until it isn't. Almost at once they go from "we'll be just friends, because this isn't going to work" to wallbanging good times, which had me wondering if I'd missed something there...still, I wanted them to get together so it's hard to be terribly upset. More relationship page time, though, would have been awesome.Ultimately, though, it's a Kristan Higgins book--and still one heck of a good read! Xe Sands did her usual fabulous job of narration, capturing Nora's voice perfectly and ayah, doing a wicked good Mainah accent along the way. :)Rating: 4 stars / A-
    • 4/5
      3.5 This is just one of those novels, the ones I occasionally need to read when my life is stressed or as a nice, welcoming break between other heavy or intense books. Not that this doesn't tackle some heavy issues, but all in all it is a book that leaves one feeling hopeful, warm hearted. The setting of Scuppers island in Maine was also a draw, since I have never read anything set here, nor in fact heard of before. It is also the fourth book I have read in a short period of time concerning bullying or mean girls. Seems to be a prevalent factor in fiction lately. Nora is a very interesting character, trying to make peace with s mother who always seemed to prefer her younger sister. Her niece Poe, a young teenager with a heavy past, with a big chip on her shoulder. Of course, there are many faces from her past, some have changed for the better, some have not. Of course, there is a love interest but these scenes are not heavy handed but seem to fall in place naturally. There is humor, so much humor, several scenes had me in stitches. Would have loved to have been a fly on the wall for those.In the interest of fairness to myself, I have to admit the first few chapters were a bit iffy. Left me wondering if I would enjoy this, but it was a sister's read so I continued on. At books end was happy I had. Also there are actually too many things going on, this kept the pages turning quickly but also made the novel unrealistic. Despite that, I enjoyed, liked these characters so much that it didn't seem to matter much. This is fun book, with some bite, a nice way to relieve the stress of the holidays.ARC from Edelweiss.