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    Private Relations
    Private Relations
    Private Relations
    Audiobook12 hours

    Private Relations

    Written by Diane Chamberlain

    Narrated by Karen White

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    About this audiobook

    Welcome to the Chapel House, the old oceanfront mansion where a group of close friends share their hopes and dreams, and where love is sometimes an unexpected guest.

    Heartfelt and deeply moving, Private Relations won the 1989 RITA Award for Best Single Title Contemporary Novel from the Romance Writers of America.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 12, 2016
    ISBN9781515975496
    Private Relations
    Author

    Diane Chamberlain

    Diane Chamberlain is the best-selling author of 20 novels. Her books, frequently set in the southeastern United States, are complex stories about love, compassion and forgiveness with a touch of mystery and suspense. Diane was born and raised in Plainfield, New Jersey, and attended Glassboro State University. She also lived for many years in both San Diego and northern Virginia. Diane received her master's degree in clinical social work from San Diego State University. Prior to her writing career, she was a hospital social worker and a psychotherapist in private practice, working primarily with adolescents. Diane's background in psychology and her work in hospitals have given her a keen interest in understanding the way people tick, as well as the background necessary to create real, living, breathing characters. More than a decade ago, Diane was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, which changed the way she works: She sometimes types using voice recognition software. She feels fortunate that her arthritis is not more severe and that she is able to enjoy everyday activities as well as keep up with a busy work and travel schedule. Diane has three married stepdaughters, three grandchildren, and two shelties. She lives with photographer John Pagliuca in North Carolina where she's at work on her 21st novel.

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    • 2/5
      I loved Big Lies in a Small Town and on the strength of that, got this book. The characters in this book are not sympathetic, the plot unfolds like a twisty soap opera with drama points seemingly randomly deposited. Maybe they resolve as the book goes on; I haven’t finished it yet and don’t know that I will. The reader is fine, but the story is an effort to listen to. The child welfare subplot is entirely unbelievable. There is excessive angst among the supposedly grown-up adults as to who should sleep with whom, and it seems so far superficial and random. I hope it improves.

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    • 3/5
      Too predictable and long winded!!No real suspense or conflict and characters are not likable, cannot connect to any of them!!
    • 5/5
      Love with right person and the way they saved the young girl on the beach just awesome characters helping each other out