Title : How To Walk Away
Author : Katherine Center
Narrators : Therese Plummer
Genre : Romance
Publisher : Macmillan Audio
Listening Length : 11 hours 28 minutes
Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2
Narrator Rating : ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2

Margaret Jacobsen has everything she could have ever wished for – a great new job and a fiancé she is so in love with. Chip, her handsome fiancé is on the brink of proposing. Margaret knows it, and she is so ready! But just when things are finally happening, everything turns around on its head – all that Margaret is looking forward to is cruelly taken away.

In the hospital, Margaret has to swallow the cold, hard truth, and is overwhelmed by how cruelly her life has turned upside down. She can wallow in self-pity or she can move on, and her sister Kit and physical therapist Ian won’t let her give up. Chip, of course, is another matter.

I like Katherine Center’s books (I read Everyone is Beautiful a while ago) – they are well-written novels which give you lots of story and a well-embedded romance. She writes the female point-of-view very well and it helps that her feisty heroines are on the cusp of a great change, an awakening with which they soundly change the course of their lives. 

I enjoyed How To Walk Away even though the hero was a bit stereotyped – gruff exterior with heart of gold etc. This was an entertaining read, with characters I could root for. Also a fun detail I noticed was that her novels link characters together – the female firefighter Cassie who makes an appearance in this book has a whole other novel dedicated to her – Things You Save in a Fire – which I listened to a little while after listening to this one. Review for that one coming soon!

Narrator Therese Plummer is fantastic – she brought Margaret to life!