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The Thing Around Your Neck
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall392
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Performance343
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Story343
From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come 12 dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and longing, this collection is a resounding confirmation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's prodigious storytelling powers.
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Gripping short stories but terrible performance
- By Aisha on 13-09-18
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The Thing Around Your Neck
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 12-08-09
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
- An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance35
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Story36
The continuing adventures from Isabel Dalhousie, Edinburgh philosopher and curious observer of the behaviour of her fellow man.
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Wrong voice
- By Karen on 17-07-12
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The Forgotten Affairs of Youth
- An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
- Narrated by: Lesley Mackie
- Series: Isabel Dalhousie Series, Book 8
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 01-09-11
- Language: English
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Alys, Always
- A superbly disquieting psychological thriller
- By: Harriet Lane
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall88
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Performance79
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Story80
Frances is a thirty-something sub-editor, an invisible production, drone on the books pages of the Questioner. Her routine and colourless existence is disrupted one winter evening when she happens upon the aftermath of a car crash and hears the last words of the driver, Alys Kyte. When Alys's...
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Brilliant, Complex Story
- By Jeeds on 04-12-14
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Alys, Always
- A superbly disquieting psychological thriller
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 27-02-12
- Language: English
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The Great Believers
- By: Rebecca Makkai
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall153
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Performance136
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Story136
In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDs epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying, and after his friend Nico's funeral, he finds his partner is infected and that he might even have the virus himself. The only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister.
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A pandemic that was easier for many to ignore
- By Karen on 28-02-21
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The Great Believers
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 18-04-19
- Language: English
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Gather ‘Round the Sound
- Holiday Stories from Beloved Authors and Great Performers Across the Globe
- By: Paulo Coelho, Yvonne Morrison, Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Angele Masters, Daniel Frances Berenson, Magda Szubanski, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance35
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Story33
2017 has been a monumental year for Audible, having just celebrated our 20th anniversary, a milestone that would have never been possible without our wonderful and loyal listeners. One of our major commitments is bringing new and diverse audio experiences to our members, so this year, as our gift to you, we pulled together a collection that reflects a little bit of everything we’ve been up to recently.
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Overall enjoyed it
- By Frieda on 25-08-25
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Gather ‘Round the Sound
- Holiday Stories from Beloved Authors and Great Performers Across the Globe
- Narrated by: Angele Masters, Daniel Frances Berenson, Magda Szubanski, Simon Callow, Dan Starkey, John Banks, Vern
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 08-12-17
- Language: English
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The Bookshop of Yesterdays
- By: Amy Meyerson
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading. Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy’s bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for...
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The Bookshop of Yesterdays
- Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 12-06-18
- Language: English
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Essays in Love
- By: Alain de Botton
- Narrated by: James Wilby
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall238
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Performance195
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Story197
Essays in Love is a stunningly original love story. Taking in Aristotle, Wittgenstein, history, religion and Groucho Marx, Alain de Botton charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak.
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Don't 'read' when your heart is breaking
- By Jeffiner Mitchell on 27-11-16
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Essays in Love
- Narrated by: James Wilby
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 06-12-10
- Language: English
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The Gardener
- By: Salley Vickers
- Narrated by: Salley Vickers
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall80
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Performance71
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Story71
Brought to you by Penguin. The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian Artist, Hassie Days, and her sister, Margot, buy a run down Jacobean house in Hope Wenlock on the Welsh Marches. While Margot continues her London life in high finance, Hassie is left...
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a mystical morality tale
- By Rachel Redford on 29-11-21
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The Gardener
- Narrated by: Salley Vickers
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 04-11-21
- Language: English
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A Cornish Secret
- Tremarnock Book 4
- By: Emma Burstall
- Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall158
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Performance141
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Story142
Esme Posorsky is an enigma. For as long as people can remember, she has been part of community life in the quaint Cornish fishing village of Tremarnock, but does anyone really know her? She is usually to be found working in her pottery studio or at home with her beloved cat, Rasputin. But when an old school friend turns up with a secret from the past, nothing will ever be the same again.
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There's definitely a few chapters missing
- By Mrs R Lawson on 27-01-19
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A Cornish Secret
- Tremarnock Book 4
- Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
- Series: Tremarnock, Book 4
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 04-10-18
- Language: English
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Il giorno dell'ape
- By: Paul Murray
- Narrated by: Giada Bonanomi, Federico Danti, Lorella Deluca, and others
- Length: 25 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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La famiglia Barnes è nei guai. La concessionaria di Dickie sta per fallire, ma lui, invece di affrontare la situazione, trascorre le giornate costruendo un bunker a prova di apocalisse. La moglie Imelda, nel frattempo, si è messa a vendere i gioielli su eBay, la figlia adolescente Cass, ex prima della classe, sembra voler sabotare la sua carriera scolastica e PJ, il figlio dodicenne, sta allestendo un piano per scappare di casa. Che cosa è andato storto per i Barnes, al punto da mandare tutto in rovina?
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Il giorno dell'ape
- Narrated by: Giada Bonanomi, Federico Danti, Lorella Deluca, Mosè Singh
- Length: 25 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 26-02-25
- Language: Italian
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We Need New Names
- From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of GLORY
- By: NoViolet Bulawayo
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall99
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Performance87
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Story87
‘To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and Switzerland and them. Nobody wants to be rags of countries like Congo, like Somalia, like Iraq, like Sudan, like Haiti and not even this one we live in – who wants...
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Poor Narration: Zimbabwean/Carribean accent?
- By Lorraine on 25-03-14
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We Need New Names
- From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of GLORY
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 06-06-13
- Language: English
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The Careful Use of Compliments
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance56
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Story56
For philosophically-minded Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful thought. And whilst juggling the arrival of baby Charlie, a passionate relationship with his father Jamie, a truce with her furious niece Cat, and struggles for authority over her son with her formidable housekeeper Grace, Isabel finds herself drawn into the story of a painter's mysterious death off the island of Jura.
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Beautifully read tedious story
- By mandy simpson-horn on 01-04-22
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The Careful Use of Compliments
- Narrated by: Davina Porter
- Series: Isabel Dalhousie Series, Book 4
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-08-13
- Language: English
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That Girl from Nowhere
- By: Dorothy Koomson
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Akiya Henry
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall222
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Performance198
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Story200
From the best-selling author of The Ice Cream Girls, The Woman He Loved Before, and My Best Friend's Girl, an emotional story about love, identity, and the meaning of family. ‘Where are you coming from with that accent of yours?’ he asks. ‘Nowhere,’ I reply. ‘I’m from nowhere.’ ‘Everyone’s from somewhere,’ he says. ‘Not me,’ I reply silently. Clemency Smittson was adopted as a baby, and the only connection she has to her birth mother is a cardboard box hand decorated with butterflies.
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Koomson doesn't disappoint
- By Lauren on 28-09-15
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That Girl from Nowhere
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Akiya Henry
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-04-15
- Language: English
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The First Phone Call From Heaven
- By: Mitch Albom
- Narrated by: Mitch Albom
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall146
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Performance132
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Story129
The First Phone Call from Heaven tells the story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to...
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Not what you would expect.....
- By mollymoon1 on 08-07-14
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The First Phone Call From Heaven
- Narrated by: Mitch Albom
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 12-11-13
- Language: English
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Before the Fall
- By: Noah Hawley
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall246
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Performance233
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Story231
The rich are different. But fate is blind. A private jet plunges into the sea. The only survivors are down-on-his-luck artist Scott Burroughs and JJ Bateman, the four-year-old son of a super-rich TV executive. For saving the boy, Scott is suddenly a hero. And then, as the official investigation is rapidly overtaken by a media frenzy, it seems he may also be a villain. Why was he on the plane in the first place, and why did it crash?
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Good story, narration distractingly bad
- By Anonymous on 04-12-17
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Before the Fall
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-11-17
- Language: English
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The 5th Wave (Book 1)
- By: Rick Yancey
- Narrated by: Brandon Espinoza, Phoebe Strole
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall548
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Performance500
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Story500
*NOW A MAJOR FILM by Sony Pictures, starring Chloe Grace Moretz* 'Wildly entertaining . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast enough' The New York Times *The 5th Wave is the first book in the bestselling series from award-winning Rick Yancey. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and Maze...
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I suspect it will split opinions
- By Simon on 26-10-14
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The 5th Wave (Book 1)
- Narrated by: Brandon Espinoza, Phoebe Strole
- Series: The 5th Wave, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 09-05-13
- Language: English
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Stand Up Virgin Soldiers
- Virgin Soldiers, Book 3
- By: Leslie Thomas
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance7
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The worst has happened. On the eve of their return to Blighty, Brigg and his fellow National Servicemen find themselves sentenced to another six months in Panglin Barracks. Many of the surviving characters from The Virgin Soldiers live again in these pages: dogged Tasker, the odious Sergeant Wellbeloved, the vulnerable Colonel Bromley Pickering and the comically touching Juicy Lucy.
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enjoyable
- By alanjbell on 27-06-22
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Stand Up Virgin Soldiers
- Virgin Soldiers, Book 3
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Series: Virgin Soldiers, Book 3
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 20-04-10
- Language: English
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The Finkler Question
- By: Howard Jacobson
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall155
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Performance67
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Story69
Julian Treslove and Sam Finkler are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick. Now all three are recently widowed, in their own way, and spend sweetly painful evenings together reminiscing. Until an unexpected violent attack brings everything they thought they knew into question.
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oh dear....
- By Tom on 08-11-10
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The Finkler Question
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 15-09-10
- Language: English
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Blast From the Past
- By: Ben Elton
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall111
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Performance90
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Story91
It’s 2:15 a.m., and you’re in bed alone and you’re woken by the phone.Your eyes are wide and your body tense before it has completed so much as a single ring. And as you wake, in the tiny moment between sleep and consciousness, you know already that something is wrong.Only someone bad would call at such an hour. Or someone good, but with bad news, which would probably be worse.You lie there in the darkness and wait for the answer machine to kick in.
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Notable narration
- By Rob Claydon on 28-03-11
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Blast From the Past
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 25-02-11
- Language: English
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My Phantoms
- By: Gwendoline Riley
- Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall92
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Performance84
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Story84
Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places; a twice-divorced mother-of-two now living alone surrounded by her memories, Helen (known to her acquaintances as 'Hen') has always haunted Bridget. Now, Bridget is an academic in her forties. She sees Helen once a year, and considers the problem to be contained. As she looks back on their tumultuous relationship - the performances and small deceptions - she tries to reckon with the cruelties inflicted on both sides. But when Helen makes it clear that she wants more, it seems an old struggle will have to be replayed.
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Absolutely hated this book.
- By Kathryn Simmons on 20-05-21
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My Phantoms
- Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 01-04-21
- Language: English
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