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Listening Length: 9 hours and 16 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Audible.co.uk Release Date: 25 April 2013
Language: English
ASIN: B00CIL5SVK

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Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself away from the funeral.

There he gets the glimpse of Todd's wife he's hoping for...but she is not Natalie. Whoever the mourning widow is, she's been married to Todd for more than a decade, and with that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life - a time he has never gotten over - is turned completely inside out. As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either can't be found or don't remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. Jake's search for the woman who broke his heart - and who lied to him - soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on carefully constructed fiction.

Kerry Shale's stage credits include His Girl Friday (National Theatre) and Frost/Nixon (West End). TV credits include Dr Who and Life's Too Short. Recent films include A Fantastic Fear of Everything. He has won three Sony Radio Awards, the APA Award for Best Male Audio Book Reader (UK) and the Audie Award for Best Male Audio Book Reader (USA). His audio books include two winners of the Man Booker Prize, Life of Pi and The White Tiger.

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62 of 67 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting, fast-paced and great fun... 17 Mar 2013

By FictionFan TOP 100 REVIEWER VINE VOICE

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Jake Fisher never understood why his one true love Natalie had suddenly dumped him and married another man, but he promises to go along with Natalie's request to leave them both alone. Six years later, he comes across an obituary notice for Todd, Natalie's husband, and decides that lets him out of the promise. But sneaking along to the funeral, Jake is stunned to discover that, whoever this grieving widow is, she isn't Natalie. And so starts the hunt...

In college professor Jake, Harlan Coben has created a very likeable old-fashioned hero, a decent man caught up in extraordinary events and finding that all the things and people he thought he knew might not be what they seemed after all. With twists and turns right up to the end, interesting characters, a complex plot, exciting action sequences and, not least, loads of great humour, Coben is at the top of his game in this standalone thriller. The book is told in the first person from Jake's perspective and in the best tradition of mystery writing Coben plays fair with the reader - we get all the clues at the same time Jake does, but this reader at least only reached the finish line in a neck-and-neck gallop with Jake.

Yes, OK, there are some things I could criticise if I was being picky - sometimes 34-year-old Jake came over as a much older man (Coben showing through perhaps?), a bit of a continuity issue around the magically disappearing/reappearing iPhone, and the thriller writer's best friend, coincidence, did play a fairly big role. But I refuse to be picky - none of that spoiled the sheer enjoyment of this exciting, fast-paced and great fun page-turner. Highly recommended.

NB This review is of a proof copy provided by the publisher.

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars The same story re-hashed 8 May 2013

By Clive

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I still hold Harlen Coben a great author and enjoy the Myron Bolitar stories and his early stand-alone mysteries. In Six Years though, we have the same plot as his earlier stories. It is a total repetition of a modern day event, where someone goes missing, and the survivor investigates the reasons, which stem back to past events and family ties. Six Years also meandered a bit too much and dragged perhaps fifty pages too many to be a tight novel. Whilst I agree that if you have a winning formula, you should stick to it, it should not be to the extent that you re-hash whole plots in their entirety.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Not up to his usual standard 1 Jun 2013

By Carolann

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I always enjoy reading Harlan's books - but he doesn't write romance well - seemed stllted and the plot was not as complex as i have come to expect. Very dissappointed.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Boring 22 May 2013

By linda walton

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Myst say I normally love this authors writing, but this I found boring. It really was very slow and quite honestly the ending was easy to work out early on.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Passed the time 23 Jun 2013

By S. jones

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I've read many Harlan Coben books, and I particularly enjoyed the first few in the Myron Bolitar series, mainly because of their engaging over-the-top characters. However I do feel that his recent books have been disappointing. This book started well but the plot became increasingly convoluted and ludicrous and the main character kept on extricating himself from a series of unbelievably tight situations. This book reminded me of the plot of Tell No One, i.e. Mr nice guy whose wife/girlfriend disappears but he never forgets her and finally finds her and that she's always loved him etc etc. A quick read but felt very let down.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars I expected more.... 14 May 2013

By Lorraine Harrison-Rogers

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I confess to feeling a little let down by this tale. The last thing I expected was an over blown love story that doesn't quite ring true...but that's what I got. Very sorry...but this just doesn't do it for me. Back to form please.

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Familiar but doesn't let you down 6 May 2013

By Keris Nine TOP 500 REVIEWER

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Harlan Coben is good. There's not much artistic flair to his writing, but he can work his way through a plot and can judge exactly the right level to pitch a work to keep every reader entertained without dumbing down in the slightest. The tone is warm and inviting, that of a nice guy telling you a great story with little asides of good-natured humour and observation that you can't really argue with. There's no beating around the bush either. One chapter, maybe even just a couple of pages, and you're hooked. Hooked enough in the case of Six Years to be willing to overlook a few unlikely twists and the fact that the plot is a familiar one and getting quite formulaic.

Six Years is classic conspiracy thriller material with just enough deeply felt romanticism to give it a bit of heart. It helps. For six years, university professor Jake has kept his promise not to make any contact with the love of his life, Nathalie, who abruptly dumped him and married another man the very next day. Ouch - that's gotta hurt. You better believe it does and there's not a day that goes by that the memory doesn't bite deep. Six years later however, Jake discovers that Nathalie's husband is dead, and he starts to seek out Nathalie again, only to find that she's left no trace of her whereabouts and no one even remembers her or even the fact that she and Jake were once an item. Is he going crazy or is there some kind of enormous conspiracy going on here?

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