The People We Were Before
- Author Annabelle Thorpe
- Narrator Leighton Pugh
- Publisher Quercus
- Publish Date 21 April 2016
- Run Time 12 hours and 54 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Modern and contemporary fiction, Romance, War, combat and military adventure fiction.
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Growing up in the borderlands between Croatia and Serbia, Miro's blissful childhood is shattered when his best friend is horribly wounded by a land-mine, a legacy of conflicts gone by.
Moving to the Dalmatian coast, where his parents start a small hotel, he thinks he has left this all behind - he falls in love and starts a family with his childhood sweetheart, Dina. But as his country descends into another devastating war, one split-second decision that causes his daughter's death destroys the life he has managed to build.
Rejected by his grieving wife, Miro takes a job as a cameraman with a news channel and is plunged into the hard-bitten black-humoured world of the international war reporters. He even finds some solace in an affair with Marian, a BBC journalist, but as he feels the war changing him and his loved ones beyond all recognition, he must struggle to keep his relationship, and his soul, intact.
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| Author | Annabelle Thorpe |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Leighton Pugh |
| Duration | 12 hours and 54 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9781784299040 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | Quercus |
| Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction, Romance, War, combat and military adventure fiction |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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