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This Last Summer [Kindle Edition]

Tania Tirraoro
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TV journalist, Maddie Chambers, is reporting on a fire when she stumbles upon a shocking family secret. Strong emotions are unleashed when she discovers her mother, who walked out on them when Maddie was a child, is alive and living nearby.
Maddie's already got her hands full holding her own in a newsroom full of the treacherous and the lecherous. She's also facing the dilemma of what to do about an irresistible attraction to a married colleague.
Now she, her father and brilliant, but autistic brother must decide how to respond to their mother's return. It's a decision made more heartbreaking when they find out her mother's been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.
In this emotionally-charged page turner, described by reviewers as 'thought-provoking', Tania Tirraoro puts to good effect both her years as a TV reporter and her experiences as the parent of sons with Asperger Syndrome.

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This is an emotionally packed drama that will have you turning pages faster than you can blink. Immediately, I bought into the character of Maddie, a woman with unshaken courage to move forward despite being abandoned by her mum. She is focused, and self-sacrificing. Maddie’s emotions and choices she makes in this book are completely in character, and inline with how most people might react to her situation.
However, Mum is not heroic, or easily forgiven. I often saw Maddie’s problem with her. Her father, brother, and Grandmother’s behavior doesn’t help Maddie, and her office romance becomes more complex. Maddie is her biggest antagonist, and the author, Tirraoro really pours out the inner turmoil. There are extreme moments of inner dialogue that pulled at my heartstrings. From the beginning, this story has a bittersweet solution that provokes tears and laughter.
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Who said working in TV was glamorous? It’s shocking - and it can break your heart... It's not easy keeping an office romance secret in a newsroom full of the treacherous and the lecherous and local TV reporter Maddie Chamber's life is about to get even more complicated. While out filming she stumbles across a family bombshell - her long lost mother, whose reappearance is set to wreak havoc on her father and brilliant but autistic brother. Then there's an even more shocking discovery that threatens to pull the family apart. Maddie faces tough decisions both personally and professionally in a journey full of emotion that you won't want to put down.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 455 KB
  • Print Length: 318 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1908248939
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004774N6E
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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What a perfectly fitting title for This Last Summer. Maddie Chambers, a TV journalist, has more than any person can handle in one Summer. Tania Tirraoro has created a very real and relatable character in Maddie who struggles with her career, relationships and family.

In the midst of a news story, Maddie accidently discovers her mother who abandoned their family fifteen years early. Now she is torn between her feelings of resentment and her desire to forgive her mother who she discovers is very ill. On top of all this, Maddie's getting close to a married colleague, Owen, who persistently flirts with her. I really loved his character and found his personality, flaws and all, to be very endearing. A few times I had to break out the tissues for this tender story of love, loss, family and relationships. Something for just about everyone in This Last Summer.
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Tania has chosen some interesting topics for her novel, This Last Summer and on the whole I believe she handled herself very well.
This is a good in-depth family drama and we, as the reader are gradually introduced to each aspect as it naturally occurs in her story.

Madeleine Chambers (principal character) is a journalist, and it is her private life and her relationships with members of her family and friends that we are brought face to face with: her father, her recently rediscovered and mortally sick mother, grandmother, and her clever brother, Ben who we discover has Asperger's Syndrome. This situation she handles particularly well, and one has to ask the question whether Tania has some special knowledge of this often frustrating syndrome.

Madeleine(Maddie) has to come to terms with many aspects of her life, and this leads to her making hard choices ~ she wrestles with her emotions and guilt over her errant mother, and her involvement with a fellow journalist who is married and definitely wants more of Maddie.A real mix of emotions well up to the surface. It's always comes down to choices and finding the right answer.
The book flows well and is certainly thought provoking; and well written.I do rate this book at 4.5 stars. Well done Tania, I look forward to reading more of your work and very good luck.

Faith Mortimer
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Not Just A Light Read 17 April 2011
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Although I would class this as a light read it is a good read. The author deals very authoritatively with the main character Maddie's work as a local television journalist. She also shows considerable insight into Aspergers Syndrome which Maddie's brother Ben suffers from. The relationship between Maddie and her mother, who suddenly reappears in the family's life after many years absence, is well handled as is the poignant end to the story. This is the author's first book and I look forward to reading her next.
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