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All That Was Lost: 'a Page-Turner and Surprisingly Tender' Katie Fforde by [Alison May]

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A famous medium is haunted by the truth in this “beautiful and compelling story that delves into what is real, what we are willing to believe” (Liz Fenwick, author of The Cornish House).

In the 1960s, teenager Patience Bickersleigh discovers her talent for telling people what they want to hear. Fifty years later she is the famous medium known to the world as Patrice Leigh. But cracks are forming in the carefully constructed barriers that keep her real history at bay.

Leo is the journalist hired to write Patrice’s biography. Struggling to reconcile the demands of his family, his grief for his lost son, and a celebrity subject who refuses to open up, Leo starts digging for his own answers. But Patrice is hiding much more than her given name—and Leo is harboring a few secrets of his own in this “bold, beautiful, and thought-provoking novel” (Rowan Coleman, author of The Day We Met).

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September 6, 2018
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"All That Was Lost is a bold, beautiful thought-provoking novel, that sensitively confronts difficult themes." —Rowan Coleman, author, The Accidental Mother

"Intriguing with a cast of complex characters that keep you fascinated, this is a page-turner and surprisingly tender." —Katie Fforde, author, A Perfect Proposal --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Alison May is the author of Sweet Nothing (2013), Midsummer Dreams (2015), Christmas Kisses (2016) and All That Was Lost (2018). She is the winner of the Elizabeth Goudge Trophy 2012 and has been shortlisted for the Love Stories Award 2015 and RoNA Awards. 2016. She lives in Worcester where she works as a full-time writer and Creative Writing tutor. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07BSCPFHR
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Legend Press (September 6, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 6, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1770 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 330 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #2,559,331 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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- #2,780 in Marriage & Divorce Fiction
- #3,030 in Women's Psychological Fiction

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Alison May was born and raised in North Yorkshire, but now lives in Worcester with one husband, no kids and no pets. There were goldfish once. That ended badly.

Alison has studied History and Creative Writing, and has worked as a waitress, a shop assistant, a learning adviser, an advice centre manager, and a freelance trainer, before settling on 'making up stories' as an entirely acceptable grown-up career plan.

Alison is a member of the Society of Authors and the Romantic Novelists' Association, and won the Elizabeth Goudge Trophy in 2012. She was shortlisted in the Love Stories Awards, 2015, and for the RoNA Rose, 2016.

Alison's latest novel, All That Was Lost, is a gripping story about lies, love and loss. Find out more about Alison at www.alison-may.co.uk

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DebiL

This was a very easy to read and gripping book that I definitely recommend!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 24, 2018

There are three main characters to All That Was Lost by Alison May: The first is Patrice Leigh who is a well-known, longstanding and celebrated medium. Then there's Leo, who has been commissioned to write Patrice's biography. The third is Louise whose son Kyle killed in a stabbing and she is desperate to contact him..

As implied by the book's synopsis, the story of All That Was Lost unfolds in two time frames. As readers turn the pages, they will discover why Patrice has been lying all her life, why Leo began weaving smaller lies that evolved into huge ones, and why Louise would lie.

This is a story full of secrets as readers will learn as each of the characters' stories are revealed. It was interesting to learn how Patience became Patrice and the secrets she'd put behind her.

Their lives intertwine as they struggle to deal with each of the grief and despair in their own situations. This was a very easy to read and gripping book to read that I would definitely recommend.

I was provided with a complimentary electronic advanced reader copy through Net Galley in exchange for my post. I was not required to post a positive review. Thank you!

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Katieneedsabiggerbookshelf

love/hated all the characters

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 8, 2018

3.5 stars. I’m not sure what but something just seemed to be missing for me. While I enjoyed the story, I seesawed between feeling for each character and despising them. My heart broke for each one of them in one chapter and in the next I wanted to smack them for their lies. While I felt for Patrice and her hard childhood, I just think of the people I know that are desperate for any glimpse of their lost loved ones and I get furious that she was lying to everyone. In the same breath though-I wonder if a lie that makes someone feel at peace about their loss is a bad one? If someone can move on knowing their loved one is happy and peaceful isn’t that a good thing? This book left me with a lot to think about.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 12, 2019

I am pleased that I chose to read All That Was Lost. What at first seemed like a book about the search for truth and the easing of suffering, turned into a complex look at lies - the why as well as the what, and the paths you choose (or are chosen for you) when you lie. The three main characters, while not exactly likeable or sympathetic, are layered and well drawn. I always like to see character growth or change throughout the story, and Alison May delivers. The pacing was even and the book entertaining. I would read more from Ms. May.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 7, 2018

Patrice Leigh also once known as Patience, had lived her life touching and helping people needing to "hear and to "know" their loved ones were "OK". She had a Gift.
Yet, her own life was one of regrets and sadness. As time goes on, these memories resurface. Secrets from years ago begin to interfere with what was once well hidden. The walls begin to crumble.
A wonderfully written heartfelt novel that kept me engaged.
It displayed heartache from those who had lost their loved ones and the desperate need to reconnect with those souls.
I enjoyed the way in which the plot unfolds and the chapters go between Patience's early years to the present days.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 17, 2018

The book definitely kept my attention and I enjoyed reading it. All the characters are likeable but have some flaws that are not so likeable but I think that makes them more real than a character who is a Pollyanna.

I was sad it came to an end without a resolution to one thing I was looking for in the story but that may be wanting more of the story.

I will be adding more of Allison May's books to my "Want to Read" list.

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251Ehmyay

How can lies affect you and others?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 7, 2018

What an interesting and unique book. The plot is simple enough, a well-known psychic hires a ghostwriter to help with her memoir/autobiography, but there is actually SO much more that happens from this pairing. This is a fascinating, at times heart-wrenching, look at secrets, the cost of keeping them hidden, and whether hiding them requires lies. While that may sound overwrought, the author addresses these issues thoughtfully and organically. She uses flashbacks to 1967 as a way of developing one of the characters, giving the reader a better depth of understanding. I liked how the author used the voices of each of the characters to advance the plot; even though the points of view shifted, I never felt like it was abrupt or out of place. Everything flowed together and culminated with just enough emotion to make it believable; it was neither over the top nor downplayed. I could imagine real people reacting the exact same way the characters did. While the main plot in current time was very interesting, the way the author captured the “young love in the 60s” was perfect. After finishing the book, I especially appreciated that the title has much more depth than it initially appears. Highly recommend this book. Thank you to NetGalley, Legend Press, and the author for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 10, 2018

All That Was Lost by Alison May is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in late August.

Louise is persistently trying to track down a medium named Patricia to learn about the afterlife existence of her son, Kyle, while Patrice's biographer Leo indirectly is trying to learn about his son, Olly. There's an all-around searching for identity, connection, understanding through highly emotive coocurring threads of perspective, but there's way too many supporting players to keep separate.

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Elaina James

An amazing, emotional, 5 star read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 3, 2021

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I'm a huge fan of Alison May’s romantic fiction and this is definitely a change in pace, but wow, the result is an incredibly moving and powerful novel.

I read All That Was Lost in one day. Well, technically it may have been gone midnight when I reached the end, but as I couldn’t sleep until I'd finished it, to me that still counts as one day! It’s not often that a book can keep me up at night, but Patience’s story drove all sleepiness from my brain, kept my eyes wide open and my gaze firmly fixed on the kindle screen, while tears streamed down my cheeks. And yes, I do mean streamed. Alison didn’t just bring a tear to my eye with this one.

All That Was Lost is definitely a story about loss, but it’s beautifully told. I felt such a connection to the characters and they stayed with me long after I’d finished reading.

An amazing, emotional, 5 star read.

Cat Marsters

Beautifully written and thoughtful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 6, 2018

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Patrice Leigh has made a career out of pretending to see past lives, but the one that’s really haunting her is her own. When the young man hired to write her memoir keeps reminding her of someone from her past, she starts to find it very difficult to keep the girl she once was from overtaking the woman she has turned herself into.

All That Was Lost is a beautifully written, perceptive novel about grief and anger, and how those terrible things can change us. The loss of the title refers to so many things: how the death of a loved one is different from the loss of a loved one, and how someone can be present in your life but still lost to you. The minutiae of grief stands out like its own character. The inner lives of the characters are beautifully drawn, from Louise the grieving mother trying to fill her pointless days with tiny activities, to Pat the sheltered teenager in a northern town untouched by the swinging 60s, to Leo, trapped in an endless cycle of uncertainty. Filled with rich, thoughtful detail, it’s a book that will stay with me.

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Kamikazi

Beautiful rendering of loss

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 9, 2018

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A beautiful story. Loss in its many coats and human pain approached with a gentle simplicity and accomplished perception; bold yet sensitive; a complex knot of characters pushing and pulling, trying and being and surviving. And throughout, the ebb and flow of loss; the process of time on memory and emotion; the way we are shaped by love, hope, belief, denial, acceptance, hurt and illness, and the infinitesimal choices and constructs we make along the way, making us who and how we are in the here and now. Real without being brutal; painful without being unbearable. This book is ultimately about what it is like to be human; how we lose our selves and even our own minds; how liberation from loss lies in its very experience; how homecoming lies inside us all.

P. S. Love

Thoughtful and well written

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 7, 2018

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When I started reading this book, I can’t quite see how the three very different main characters were all going to end up relating to each other, they all seemed very much in their own lives. But they slowly began to impact one another and as Patrice is secrets were revealed and as we got to know the other characters it came to a really satisfying conclusion.
This is very definitely worth a read, and I can see that I’m going to spend the next few days thinking about the issues raised - about identity and deceit and family…

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gizmo

A compelling read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 27, 2019

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I have just finished listening to the audio of this book. It was an absorbing read/listen. I had a lot of sympathy for Patience/ Patrice the main character and the description of how she had come to be a medium. Not a decision more a set of circumstances that lead to a young girl who had lived a sheltered life. The other characters were interesting in how they came to be involved with Patients/ Patrice' s life and career. A compelling and well told story.

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