How to Walk Away

Score: 5/5 Bookmarks

Steam Rating: 🍆 /5

I just finished How to Walk Away by Katherine Center, and oh my this book almost unglued me. It is heartbreaking. Completely, shatteringly heartbreaking. But it’s also so helpful, and uplifting and inspiring. I love the main character, Magaret, she is real and less than perfect, but watching her grow throughout the book was incredibly satisfying.

Take a look at the synopsis below, but in a nutshell, Margaret is in a plane crash with her boyfriend on the night he proposes. She spends time in hospital after that, discovering who she really is, what she wants, and how to cope with her new life.

Funnily enough, it was the ‘bonus story’ at the end of the audiobook, from the rescue firefighter’s point of view, that almost broke me completely. So many little details that added beautiful color to the start of the book.

As I mentioned, I listened to the audiobook on Libro.fm and it was just wonderful. Therese Plummer does a fantastic job of bringing the story to life. She also narrates Things You Save in a Fire (also by Katherine Center). Grab yourself a copy of the audiobook by clicking the button below, or get the physical book here.

Synopsis:

Margaret Jacobsen has a bright future ahead of her: a fiancé she adores, her dream job, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in one tumultuous moment. 

In the hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be the same again, Margaret must figure out how to move forward on her own terms while facing long-held family secrets, devastating heartbreak, and the idea that love might find her in the last place she would ever expect. 

How to Walk Away is Katherine Center at her very best: an utterly charming, hopeful, and romantic novel that will capture reader’s hearts with every page.