Stroke of Luck
Mark Billingham
Apr 2015 · Little, Brown Book Group · Narrated by Mark Billingham
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So many things that could have been different. An almost infinite number of them: the flight of the ball, the angle of the bat, the movement of his feet as he skipped down the pitch. The weather, the time, the day of the week, the whatever.
The smallest variance in any one of these things or in the way that each connected to the other at the crucial moment and nothing would have happened as it did. An inch another way or a second or a step and it would have been a very different story.
Of course it's always a different story, but it isn't always a story with bodies....
During a summer cricket match, Alan meets Rachel, and they start a relationship - but soon Alan discovers he is having an affair with a married woman. Though not a happily married one. Rachel's husband abuses her physically and psychologically, and Rachel is at her wits' end. Alan vows to protect her - but her husband is not the only one who is a threat. Rachel is being secretly watched....
The smallest variance in any one of these things or in the way that each connected to the other at the crucial moment and nothing would have happened as it did. An inch another way or a second or a step and it would have been a very different story.
Of course it's always a different story, but it isn't always a story with bodies....
During a summer cricket match, Alan meets Rachel, and they start a relationship - but soon Alan discovers he is having an affair with a married woman. Though not a happily married one. Rachel's husband abuses her physically and psychologically, and Rachel is at her wits' end. Alan vows to protect her - but her husband is not the only one who is a threat. Rachel is being secretly watched....
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4.1
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Zac S
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December 10, 2019
Nicely narrated but a pretty boring book. Ended just as it got interesting. Copped between scenes and pointless characters/events made it all the less interesting. Giving two stars as it was free so has to be worth the money.
Marie Fleetham
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August 4, 2019
A Stroke of Bad Luck I downloaded this, shallow, poor chatacters, no plot and ends when good books are just starting. The only good thing was it was on the free list. I have it 1 star because there's no option for 0.
Nan C2
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October 24, 2019
Nicely narrated by the author. My first audiobooks. Liked the excitement of the tale. Listened to others momentarily but couldn't bear the female narrator.
About the author
Mark Billingham has won numerous awards, being one of only two authors to twice win the Theakston's Old Peculier Award for Crime Novel of the Year. Each of his novels has been a Sunday Times bestseller, including his last two series, Tom Thorne and Declan Miller. Sleepyhead and Scaredy Cat were made into a hit TV series on Sky 1, and a series based on the novels In the Dark and Time of Death was broadcast on BBC1. Mark lives in north London with his wife and two children.
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