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  • Published: 14 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9781473536456
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 14 hr 18 min
  • Narrators: Susy Kane, Sara Powell

When I Was Invisible

A powerful novel about missed opportunities from the bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls




An emotional and compelling novel from Dorothy Koomson, bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls, The Woman He Loved Before and My Best Friend's Girl

‘Do you ever wonder if you’ve lived the life you were meant to?’ I ask her.


She sighs, and dips her head. ‘Even if I do, what difference will it make?’


In 1988, two eight-year-old girls with almost identical names and the same love of ballet meet for the first time. They seem destined to be best friends forever and to become professional dancers. Years later, however, they have both been dealt so many cruel blows that they walk away from each other into very different futures – one enters a convent, the other becomes a minor celebrity. Will these new, ‘invisible’ lives be the ones they were meant to live, or will they only find that kind of salvation when they are reunited twenty years later?

  • Published: 14 July 2016
  • ISBN: 9781473536456
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 14 hr 18 min
  • Narrators: Susy Kane, Sara Powell

About the author

Dorothy Koomson

Dorothy Koomson, The knitty-gritty. . .
Dorothy Koomson is the author of twelve novels including That Girl From Nowhere, The Chocolate Run, The Woman He Loved Before, The Ice Cream Girls and My Best Friend’s Girl. While writing The Friend she took up, in the name of research, knitting and cocktail mixing – two things that are oddly compatible. Give it a try.

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Praise for When I Was Invisible

A powerful story about friendship and forgiveness, and fans of Dorothy Koomson will enjoy the clever twists and unexpected turns, which keep the reader enthralled and eager to discover just what happened to two little girls destined for greatness.

Candis

Gritty and emotional, with lots of satisfying twists and turns. A compulsively readable book about empowering women. I couldn't put it down; I think this is one of her best.

Julie Cohen

A great read.

Bella

A real page-turner.

Good Housekeeping

A thought-provoking and suspense-filled tale of friendship.

OK!

A powerful tale of friendship.

Prima

Koomson brilliantly captures the fraught friendship between the two girls in this gripping tale.

Closer

Full of heart and sympathy.

Dail Mail

An absolute page-turner of a novelpowerful and oh so compelling When I Was Invisible left me with a tear in my eye and touched my heart

www.lovereading.co.uk

A thought-provoking, emotional drama.

Sunday Post

I’m a massive Dorothy Koomson fan, so I’ll be taking When I Was Invisible on holiday

Katie Fforde, Daily Mail, Summer Reads

Cancel the excursion to the ancient ruins and get poolside for this compelling story of love and forgiveness.

Sainsbury’s Magazine

A hard-hitting tale

Sun

Great heart

The Herald

Raw and emotional, this packs a punch

Fabulous

Koomson just gets better and better

Woman & Home

Tense and emotional with truly empathetic characters

My Weekly

A powerful story about friendship and forgiveness, fans of Dorothy Koomson’s novels will enjoy the clever twists and unexpected turns, which keep the reader enthralled

Candis

A powerful book … it’s always good to be thinking of a book long after you put it down

Woman’s Way (Ireland)

A beautiful and clever novel

The Culture Trip

Powerful and haunting, the book tackles difficult topics and makes you realise how easily you can lose your whole world

Woman