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Versions of a Girl
- By: Catherine Gray
- Narrated by: Maeve Smyth
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
Fern's mother is a social climber and a former ballet dancer who lives a plush life in a London townhouse. Fern's father only climbs if there's a bottle at the top, has an IQ of 133 and lives hand-to-mouth in Californian motels. Aged 14, Fern has spent equal time with each of her parents. That is, until an unexpected visitor triggers a life-changing dilemma – whether she should get on a plane to London to be with her mother, or stay in California with her father. Here, Fern's narrative splices in two.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book. Loved the characters. Top notch Narration
- By KCT on 17-07-24
- Versions of a Girl
- By: Catherine Gray
- Narrated by: Maeve Smyth
Great book. Loved the characters. Top notch Narration
Reviewed: 17-07-24
I really enjoyed this book. You have to keep a careful grasp of the timeline jumps and the different storylines but it’s worth it for the results. I feel like I’m going to miss these characters and it was really interesting to follow the paths of all the different people and their intertwining stories. Very clever. Brilliantly written andsuperbly narrated.
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The Life We Bury
- By: Allen Eskens
- Narrated by: Zach Villa
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,120
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,096
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,095
College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So good
- By MS on 25-04-24
- The Life We Bury
- By: Allen Eskens
- Narrated by: Zach Villa
Absolutely loved it
Reviewed: 24-06-24
Great story, great characters, great narration. I absolutely loved this book - will be a hard one to follow! Thank you
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Nine Perfect Strangers
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,413
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2,181
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,169
The 10-day retreat at boutique health-and-wellness resort Tranquillum House promises healing and transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage and absorb the blissful meditative ambiance while enjoying their hot stone massages. They are all on a path to a better way of living. Or at least a better waistline.... Watching over them is the resort's director, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate these bodies and minds. But to what lengths will she go to achieve her goal? These nine perfect strangers have no idea what's about to hit them.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Did not like this book at all
- By sabine on 21-10-18
- Nine Perfect Strangers
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
The narrator ruined it for me…
Reviewed: 29-05-24
I usually love this narrator but her voice was so annoying. It was as if she was reading the part of a five-year-old child. Totally overacted this time sadly. As if she was trying to sound cute. It was so offputting, I couldn’t carry on with the book despite enjoying the story. Please revert to normal Caroline Lee. This is cringy. And you are a great voiceover artist.
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The List of Suspicious Things
- By: Jennie Godfrey
- Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt, Mark Noble, Asif Khan, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,619
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,589
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,589
1970s Yorkshire. Women are being terrorised by the serial killer known as the Yorkshire Ripper, whose attacks are becoming more frequent and arbitrary. Twelve year-old Miv's family, afraid of the Ripper's increasing hatred of women, begins to talk about moving south. Miv, determined for this not to happen, decides to take the matter into her own hands and investigate the attacks alongside her best friend Sharon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply Superb
- By S. Fritchley on 13-03-24
- The List of Suspicious Things
- By: Jennie Godfrey
- Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt, Mark Noble, Asif Khan, Gemma Whelan, Simon Harvey
A good book albeit pretty sad
Reviewed: 08-04-24
I liked the writing a lot and the narration was great, but this probably wasn't the book I was looking for at the time as I wanted something interesting but upbeat and it's full of somewhat depressing stories. If you're looking for funny or a feel-good book it's probably not for you but it's a good listen and nice insight into this girl's world and community.
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All the Broken Places
- By: John Boyne
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 657
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 615
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Story5 out of 5 stars 614
1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event that tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly 80 years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However, the appearance of their nine-year-old son, Henry, brings back memories she would rather forget.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply outstanding and powerful novel
- By Sigrin on 06-11-22
- All the Broken Places
- By: John Boyne
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd, Kristin Atherton
Amazing book
Reviewed: 28-03-24
I must be one of the only people who hasn’t read the boy in the striped pyjamas but despite that I decided to give this a go. Wow. Incredible book. My only issue and it’s a small one is the fact this narrator is awful at reading a person in distress. I’ve heard her do other books and it’s really something she should work on because she is otherwise so good. But that’s it. I can highly recommend this book. It’s sad, powerful, interesting, moving and historic.
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The Little House
- By: Philippa Gregory
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4 out of 5 stars 61
It was easy for Elizabeth. She married the man she loved, bore him two children and made a home for him which was the envy of their friends. It was harder for Ruth. She married Elizabeth’s son and then found that, somehow, she could never quite measure up. Isolation, deceit and betrayal fill the gaps between the two individual women and between their different worlds. In this complex thriller, Philippa Gregory deploys all her insight into what women want and what women fear, as Ruth confronts the shifting borders of her own sanity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Narration
- By Kindle Customer on 08-01-24
- The Little House
- By: Philippa Gregory
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
Would have been better as a short story
Reviewed: 19-03-24
This started well and I really enjoyed it, so many potential avenues to go down but then we just seemed to hear the same story again and again until it ended. So many outside characters just dissolved from the script. I think there was a huge opportunity here to make this more interesting because by the last hour I didn't care at all about the main character, any of them actually, and was so bored with the endless repetitive scenarios. Wasted opportunity. It would have made a great short story but didn't need to be nearly 10 hours long.
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The Women
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,347
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,315
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,315
‘Women can be heroes, too’. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances “Frankie” McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California’s idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different path for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the Army Nurses Corps and follows his path.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just brilliant
- By dk.bookworm on 23-02-24
- The Women
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Disappointed
Reviewed: 12-03-24
I was really looking forward to this as love all of KH's books but was so annoyed by the final hour I really didn't care about the ending or the main character at all, in fact she annoyed me. It felt repetitive and she lost all of her spark. Seriously disappointed.
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Small Pleasures
- By: Clare Chambers
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,051
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,792
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,794
Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointed in love and - on the brink of 40 - living a limited existence with her truculent mother: a small life from which there is no likelihood of escape. When a young Swiss woman, Gretchen Tilbury, contacts the paper to claim that her daughter is the result of a virgin birth, it is down to Jean to discover whether she is a miracle or a fraud. But the more Jean investigates, the more her life becomes strangely (and not unpleasantly) intertwined with that of the Tilburys.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Poignant, thoughtful & beautifully crafted
- By Rachel Redford on 26-07-20
- Small Pleasures
- By: Clare Chambers
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
A solid 10, until the ending...
Reviewed: 01-03-24
I enjoyed this book SO much... the characters, the narration... until the end. It really was such a disappointment. I can't go into any details as don't want to ruin it but really disappointed, to the point I wish I'd never invested my time in the book.
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Working Identity (Updated Edition, with a New Preface)
- Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
- By: Herminia Ibarra
- Narrated by: Joana Garcia
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance2 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
Bestselling author Herminia Ibarra presents a model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we've learned from "career experts"—and is tailor-made for changing careers in today's uncertain world. Career transition is not a linear path toward some predetermined identity, according to Ibarra, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of "possible selves" we might become. Successful reinvention comes not from deciphering and analyzing our past, but from inventing and testing our possible futures.
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3 out of 5 stars
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good book, horrible performance
- By Anonymous User on 05-05-24
- Working Identity (Updated Edition, with a New Preface)
- Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career
- By: Herminia Ibarra
- Narrated by: Joana Garcia
Awful narration. Like it’s been created by AI
Reviewed: 23-02-24
I can’t comment on the content of this book because I couldn’t get past the first 10 minutes. The narration is dreadful. It’s like listening to a robot and I couldn’t focus on the content. I highly suggest you re-record this one as I was really looking forward to listening to it, but I just couldn’t bear it.
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There's Something I Have to Tell You
- By: Michelle McDonagh
- Narrated by: Michele Moran
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 495
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 474
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 473
On Glenbeg Farm, it was a morning like any other. Only the distressed bark of beloved collie Samson hinted that all was not well. When the bodies of wealthy matriarch Ursula Kennedy and her farmer husband Jimmy are pulled from the slurry pit, shock ricochets throughout the family and community. Everyone has questions, including the gardaí. Was this a tragic accident? Or is there more to it than meets the eye? Their son Rob, once destined for a high-flying legal career, is now involved in the family business.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By Anonymous User on 25-08-23
- There's Something I Have to Tell You
- By: Michelle McDonagh
- Narrated by: Michele Moran
Wonderful narration
Reviewed: 09-01-24
I really enjoyed this story, and the characters and the narration was absolutely fantastic. A few trigger warnings might be useful in the description but might give the plot away so won’t mention them.
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