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Please Look After Mother
- By: Kyung-Sook Shin
- Narrated by: Bruce Turk, Janet Song, Mark Bramhall, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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When 69-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins a desperate search to find her. Yet as long-held secrets and private sorrows begin to reveal themselves, they are forced to wonder: how well did they actually know the woman they called Mother?
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Thought provoking
- By Staceburgers on 11-10-22
- Please Look After Mother
- By: Kyung-Sook Shin
- Narrated by: Bruce Turk, Janet Song, Mark Bramhall, Samantha Quan
Beautiful book
Reviewed: 10-07-24
Wonderful story and beautifully told. Honest and sensitive insights around the neglect of a selfless woman.
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Fine Just The Way It Is
- Wyoming Stories 3
- By: Annie Proulx
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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Returning to the territory of "Brokeback Mountain" (in her first volume of Wyoming Stories) and Bad Dirt, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx delivers a stunning and visceral new collection. In Fine Just the Way It Is, she has expanded the limits of the form. Her stories about multiple generations of Americans struggling through life in the West are a ferocious, dazzling panorama of American folly and fate.
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Brilliant writing and terrific narration
- By Mark Goldberg on 20-06-23
- Fine Just The Way It Is
- Wyoming Stories 3
- By: Annie Proulx
- Narrated by: Will Patton
Each story pulls you into that world
Reviewed: 07-07-24
Thought provoking listening sensitively telling stories of peoples fears, isolation and deepest thoughts. Beautifully told.
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The Shipping News
- By: Annie Proulx
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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At 36, Quoyle, a third-rate newspaperman, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife gets her just desserts. He retreats with his two daughters to his ancestral home on the starkly beautiful Newfoundland coast, where a rich cast of local characters all play a part in Quoyle's struggle to reclaim his life. As three generations of his family cobble up new lives, Quoyle confronts his private demons - and the unpredictable forces of nature and society - and begins to see the possibility of love without pain or misery.
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Feels like you're there
- By Francesca D. on 15-12-22
- The Shipping News
- By: Annie Proulx
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
The gentle pace and sensitive narrative
Reviewed: 26-06-24
I loved everything about this book. Beautifully told and able to get into the shoes of each character. An absolute gem.
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The Sense of an Ending
- By: Julian Barnes
- Narrated by: Richard Morant
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour, and wit. Maybe Adrian was more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired.
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A sense of brilliance
- By Kaggy on 07-12-14
- The Sense of an Ending
- By: Julian Barnes
- Narrated by: Richard Morant
A sensitive beautifully told story
Reviewed: 17-03-24
I loved this insightful story of one man’s view of of how is perceived by others and consequently how he then reacts to those he meets. Lovely humour used although a sad tale of a lonely man. A gentle narrative beautifully told.
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The Second Victim: Daisy's Story
- By: Daisy, Emma Barnaby
- Narrated by: Daisy
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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Daisy is a black baby adopted into a white family in rural 1970’s England. Alienation and loss of identity dominate her childhood. After discovering she was conceived through child rape, she begins a lifelong mission to find and prosecute her birth father using the only irrefutable evidence left. Her own DNA. But justice isn’t just for her birth mother. She too, is a victim, and when the world around her doesn’t agree, she is forced to reckon with external and internal powers out of her control.
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Whiny and selfish
- By Helene on 26-12-23
- The Second Victim: Daisy's Story
- By: Daisy, Emma Barnaby
- Narrated by: Daisy
An honest thought provoking listen
Reviewed: 05-03-24
I’d love to meet Daisy, you have really touched me and made me question my practice. I will be asking my colleagues if they have listened to your story. Well told
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Against the Loveless World
- By: Susan Abulhawa
- Narrated by: Susan Abulhawa
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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Nahr has been confined to the Cube: nine square metres of glossy grey cinderblock, devoid of time, its patterns of light and dark nothing to do with day and night. Journalists visit her, but get nowhere; because Nahr is not going to share her story with them. The world outside calls Nahr a terrorist and a whore; some might call her a revolutionary, or a hero. But the truth is, Nahr has always been many things and had many names.
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Touching and shocking like no other
- By Eszter Pos on 21-09-20
- Against the Loveless World
- By: Susan Abulhawa
- Narrated by: Susan Abulhawa
Such a moving and powerful story
Reviewed: 01-03-24
I absolutely loved this book. It has given me a greater insight into the struggles of Palestinian people, the culture and courage shown by so many. Such a frank and honest story which I did not want to end. Beautifully told.
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The Remains of the Day
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Dominic West
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside – and into his past.
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Should I stay or should I go?
- By Barbara on 20-03-18
- The Remains of the Day
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Dominic West
Such a sensitively told story.
Reviewed: 29-12-23
It took a while for me to warm to the characters although I soon came to see their vulnerabilities and loneliness, drawing me to them. Beautifully narrated.
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The Cyclist
- A DS Cross Thriller
- By: Tim Sullivan
- Narrated by: John Heffernan
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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DS George Cross can be rude, difficult, and awkward with people. But his unfailing logic and relentless pursuit of justice means his conviction rate is the best on the force. When a ravaged body is found in a local demolition site, it is up to Cross to piece together the truth from whatever fragments he can find. DS Cross has little to go on, but from the faint tan lines on the body and strange scars on his forearms, an identity gradually emerges. Cross mounts an investigation that will uncover jealousy, ambition and a family tearing itself apart.
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Introduction of foul language
- By George on 29-08-23
- The Cyclist
- A DS Cross Thriller
- By: Tim Sullivan
- Narrated by: John Heffernan
Another great read by Tim Sullivan
Reviewed: 05-10-23
I enjoyed this book as much as The Dentist with excellent narration and all of its twists and turns. I love the steady style and the humour surrounding Crosses attempts to comply with acceptable norms.
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The Dentist
- DS Cross, Book 1
- By: Tim Sullivan
- Narrated by: John Heffernan
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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DS George Cross can be rude, difficult and awkward with people. But his unfailing logic and dogged pursuit of the truth means his conviction rate is the best on the force. So when his police colleagues dismiss the death of a man as a squabble among Bristol's homeless community, Detective Sergeant George Cross is not convinced.
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Enjoyable
- By S. E. Huxford on 15-09-21
- The Dentist
- DS Cross, Book 1
- By: Tim Sullivan
- Narrated by: John Heffernan
Intriguing story and well narrated.
Reviewed: 29-09-23
I found the narrators style and voice perfect for the character who seemed to find his Asperger’s the issue for others, not him. Lots of twists and I enjoyed getting some of them right. A good listen.
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