Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
Discover the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 winner and longlist plus the award winners from previous years.
Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
Susanna Clarke has given us a truly original, unexpected flight of fancy which melds genres and challenges preconceptions about what books should be. She has created a world beyond our wildest imagination that also tells us something profound about what it is to be human.
- Bernardine Evaristo, 2021 Chair of Judges....A modern allegoric tale that works beautifully on all its levels; I’ve never regretted my spoiler-free approach to reviews more, as I really want to discuss the allegory at the heart of this intriguing story. Simultaneously simple and complex, every piece seems to have its place both on the surface and below, the labyrinth setting layered and reflected in characters and themes...
- Miko, Audible listener.
Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
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How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
- By: Cherie Jones
- Narrated by: Danielle Vitalis
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 234
In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother, Wilma, tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers. For Wilma, it's the story of a wilful adventurer, who ignores the warnings of those around her, and suffers as a result. When Lala grows up, she sees it offers hope - of life after losing a baby in the most terrible of circumstances and marrying the wrong man.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sad
- By Sigrin on 13-07-21
By: Cherie Jones
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No One Is Talking About This
- By: Patricia Lockwood
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 463
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 395
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 397
This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It’s about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen. It’s about where we go when existential threats loom and the high stakes of reality that claim us back. It’s about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy and justice in the universe and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunning & profound
- By Catherine Patricia Connolly on 01-03-21
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Piranesi
- By: Susanna Clarke
- Narrated by: Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,355
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,779
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,763
Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Slow grind, for me
- By indigoblue on 22-10-20
By: Susanna Clarke
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The Vanishing Half
- By: Brit Bennett
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,647
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,266
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,266
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white and her white husband knows nothing of her past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Important Read
- By Steph on 23-06-20
By: Brit Bennett
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Transcendent Kingdom
- By: Yaa Gyasi
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 380
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 329
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 331
As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away. Years later, desperate to understand the opioid addiction that destroyed her brother's life, she turns to science for answers. But when her mother comes to stay, Gifty soon learns that the roots of their tangled traumas reach farther than she ever thought.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, thought-provoking, educational
- By Steph on 01-10-20
By: Yaa Gyasi
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Unsettled Ground
- By: Claire Fuller
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 536
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 472
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 473
Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage, they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill, everything they need for sustenance. But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. Jeanie and Julius would do anything to preserve their small sanctuary against the perils of the outside world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Mrs R. on 02-04-21
By: Claire Fuller
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How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
- By: Cherie Jones
- Narrated by: Danielle Vitalis
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 234
In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother, Wilma, tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale about what happens to girls who disobey their mothers. For Wilma, it's the story of a wilful adventurer, who ignores the warnings of those around her, and suffers as a result. When Lala grows up, she sees it offers hope - of life after losing a baby in the most terrible of circumstances and marrying the wrong man.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sad
- By Sigrin on 13-07-21
By: Cherie Jones
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No One Is Talking About This
- By: Patricia Lockwood
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 463
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 395
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 397
This is a story about a life lived in two halves. It’s about what happens when real life collides with the increasing absurdity of a world accessed through a screen. It’s about where we go when existential threats loom and the high stakes of reality that claim us back. It’s about living in world that contains both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy and justice in the universe and a deluge of evidence to the contrary.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stunning & profound
- By Catherine Patricia Connolly on 01-03-21
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Piranesi
- By: Susanna Clarke
- Narrated by: Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,355
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,779
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,763
Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Slow grind, for me
- By indigoblue on 22-10-20
By: Susanna Clarke
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The Vanishing Half
- By: Brit Bennett
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,647
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,266
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,266
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white and her white husband knows nothing of her past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Important Read
- By Steph on 23-06-20
By: Brit Bennett
-
Transcendent Kingdom
- By: Yaa Gyasi
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 380
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 329
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 331
As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away. Years later, desperate to understand the opioid addiction that destroyed her brother's life, she turns to science for answers. But when her mother comes to stay, Gifty soon learns that the roots of their tangled traumas reach farther than she ever thought.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, thought-provoking, educational
- By Steph on 01-10-20
By: Yaa Gyasi
-
Unsettled Ground
- By: Claire Fuller
- Narrated by: Rachel Bavidge
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 536
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 472
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 473
Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage, they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill, everything they need for sustenance. But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. Jeanie and Julius would do anything to preserve their small sanctuary against the perils of the outside world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Mrs R. on 02-04-21
By: Claire Fuller
Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
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Burnt Sugar
- By: Avni Doshi
- Narrated by: Vineeta Rishi
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 190
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 192
In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents) and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, mixing up her maid's wages and leaving the gas on all night, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I didn't enjoy it
- By TheRealMrsB on 16-09-20
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Detransition, Baby
- By: Torrey Peters
- Narrated by: Renata Friedman
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 531
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 443
Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didn't hate. She'd scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then everything fell apart, and three years on, Reese is still in self-destruct mode, avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very honest depictions of modern adult life.
- By R . K on 11-02-21
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Exciting Times
- Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
- By: Naoise Dolan
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 542
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 440
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 440
Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. Julian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than 'I like you a great deal'. Enter Edith, a lawyer. Refreshingly enthusiastic and unapologetically earnest, Edith takes Ava to the theatre when Julian leaves Hong Kong for work. Quickly, she becomes something Ava looks forward to. And then Julian writes to tell Ava he is coming back to Hong Kong....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Exhausted by Ava’s tedious self-absorption
- By AD on 20-10-20
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Luster
- By: Raven Leilani
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 646
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 551
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Story4 out of 5 stars 552
Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, she is sleeping with all the wrong men and she has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her: painting. No one seems to care that she doesn’t really know what she’s doing with her life beyond looking for her next hook-up. And then she meets Eric, a white, middle-aged archivist with a suburban family, including a wife who has sort-of-agreed to an open marriage and an adopted Black daughter who doesn’t have a single person in her life who can show her how to do her hair.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Rampant and pithy
- By papapownall on 31-01-21
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Because of You
- By: Dawn French
- Narrated by: Dawn French
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,229
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,935
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,920
After five long years of waiting for a new novel, Dawn’s millions of fans will fall in love with this tantalising story of motherhood. This is a story about mothers and daughters, love and loss, mistakes and regret. It’s a story about nature and nurture. Ultimately, it’s a story about what makes us who we are - it is a story for all of us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Anne Douglas on 30-10-20
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Nothing but Blue Sky
- By: Kathleen MacMahon
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage? David thought so. But when his wife, Mary Rose, dies suddenly he has to think again. In reliving their 20 years together David sees that the ground beneath them had shifted and he simply hadn't noticed. Or had chosen not to. Figuring out who Mary Rose really was and the secrets that she kept - some of these hidden in plain sight - makes David wonder if he really knew her. Did he even know himself? Nothing but Blue Sky is a precise and tender story of love in marriage.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Slow going
- By Emma on 12-04-21
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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 2,079
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,819
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,821
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
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Summer
- By: Ali Smith
- Narrated by: Juliette Burton
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 85
In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother, Robert, just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time. This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential
- By Andrew Williams on 16-08-20
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The Golden Rule
- Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
- By: Amanda Craig
- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 118
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 107
When Hannah is invited into the First-Class carriage of the London to Penzance train by Jinni, she walks into a spider's web. Now a poor, young single mother, Hannah once escaped Cornwall to go to university. But once she married Jake and had his child, her dreams were crushed into bitter disillusion. Her husband has left her for Eve, rich and childless, and Hannah has been surviving by becoming a cleaner in London. Jinni is equally angry and bitter, and in the course of their journey the two women agree to murder each other's husbands.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Dull, condescending and a little embarrassing
- By the typist on 07-07-20
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Burnt Sugar
- By: Avni Doshi
- Narrated by: Vineeta Rishi
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 220
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 190
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 192
In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents) and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, mixing up her maid's wages and leaving the gas on all night, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I didn't enjoy it
- By TheRealMrsB on 16-09-20
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Detransition, Baby
- By: Torrey Peters
- Narrated by: Renata Friedman
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 531
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 443
Reese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didn't hate. She'd scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then everything fell apart, and three years on, Reese is still in self-destruct mode, avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very honest depictions of modern adult life.
- By R . K on 11-02-21
-
Exciting Times
- Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
- By: Naoise Dolan
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 542
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 440
-
Story3.5 out of 5 stars 440
Ava, newly arrived in Hong Kong from Dublin, spends her days teaching English to rich children. Julian is a banker. A banker who likes to spend money on Ava, to have sex and discuss fluctuating currencies with her. But when she asks whether he loves her, he cannot say more than 'I like you a great deal'. Enter Edith, a lawyer. Refreshingly enthusiastic and unapologetically earnest, Edith takes Ava to the theatre when Julian leaves Hong Kong for work. Quickly, she becomes something Ava looks forward to. And then Julian writes to tell Ava he is coming back to Hong Kong....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Exhausted by Ava’s tedious self-absorption
- By AD on 20-10-20
-
Luster
- By: Raven Leilani
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 646
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 551
-
Story4 out of 5 stars 552
Edie is just trying to survive. She’s messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, she is sleeping with all the wrong men and she has failed at the only thing that meant anything to her: painting. No one seems to care that she doesn’t really know what she’s doing with her life beyond looking for her next hook-up. And then she meets Eric, a white, middle-aged archivist with a suburban family, including a wife who has sort-of-agreed to an open marriage and an adopted Black daughter who doesn’t have a single person in her life who can show her how to do her hair.
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5 out of 5 stars
-
Rampant and pithy
- By papapownall on 31-01-21
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Because of You
- By: Dawn French
- Narrated by: Dawn French
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,229
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,935
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,920
After five long years of waiting for a new novel, Dawn’s millions of fans will fall in love with this tantalising story of motherhood. This is a story about mothers and daughters, love and loss, mistakes and regret. It’s a story about nature and nurture. Ultimately, it’s a story about what makes us who we are - it is a story for all of us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Anne Douglas on 30-10-20
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Nothing but Blue Sky
- By: Kathleen MacMahon
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 84
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 78
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 78
Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage? David thought so. But when his wife, Mary Rose, dies suddenly he has to think again. In reliving their 20 years together David sees that the ground beneath them had shifted and he simply hadn't noticed. Or had chosen not to. Figuring out who Mary Rose really was and the secrets that she kept - some of these hidden in plain sight - makes David wonder if he really knew her. Did he even know himself? Nothing but Blue Sky is a precise and tender story of love in marriage.
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2 out of 5 stars
-
Slow going
- By Emma on 12-04-21
-
Small Pleasures
- By: Clare Chambers
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,079
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,819
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,821
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
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Summer
- By: Ali Smith
- Narrated by: Juliette Burton
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 101
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 85
In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother, Robert, just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time. This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential
- By Andrew Williams on 16-08-20
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The Golden Rule
- Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
- By: Amanda Craig
- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars 118
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 107
When Hannah is invited into the First-Class carriage of the London to Penzance train by Jinni, she walks into a spider's web. Now a poor, young single mother, Hannah once escaped Cornwall to go to university. But once she married Jake and had his child, her dreams were crushed into bitter disillusion. Her husband has left her for Eve, rich and childless, and Hannah has been surviving by becoming a cleaner in London. Jinni is equally angry and bitter, and in the course of their journey the two women agree to murder each other's husbands.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Dull, condescending and a little embarrassing
- By the typist on 07-07-20
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Hamnet
- Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 - the No. 1 Bestseller
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Daisy Donovan
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,255
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narrator fights writing and wins (sadly)
- By Leaf Green on 20-07-20
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Hamnet
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- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 31-03-20
- Language: English
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An American Marriage (Oprah’s Book Club)
- A Novel
- By: Tayari Jones
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden, Eisa Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,271
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,983
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,977
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career....
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4 out of 5 stars
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- By Snowbound on 10-08-18
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- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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Home Fire
- By: Kamila Shamsie
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 974
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 880
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 879
Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred....
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unexpectedly compelling read
- By Jill SG on 31-01-19
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Home Fire
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 21-12-17
- Language: English
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The Power
- By: Naomi Alderman
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Naomi Alderman, Thomas Judd, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,099
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,669
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,671
Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Oh, I really am not sure I can make it to the end....
- By S. J. Veal on 22-02-19
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The Power
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Naomi Alderman, Thomas Judd, Emma Fenney, Phil Nightingale
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 27-10-16
- Language: English
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The Glorious Heresies
- By: Lisa McInerney
- Narrated by: Shelley Atkinson
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 457
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 397
One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland's postcrash society....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fantastic listen
- By ros on 05-06-16
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The Glorious Heresies
- Narrated by: Shelley Atkinson
- Series: Ryan Cusack, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 26-05-16
- Language: English
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How to Be Both
- By: Ali Smith
- Narrated by: Katie Leung
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4 out of 5 stars 29
Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, this is a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Performed in the loveliest Scottish accent!
- By D Flood on 03-09-24
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How to Be Both
- Narrated by: Katie Leung
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 11-02-21
- Language: English
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A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
- By: Eimear McBride
- Narrated by: Eimear McBride
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 315
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Story4 out of 5 stars 280
Eimear McBride's award-winning debut novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not an easy listen, but a powerful story
- By Benry on 01-12-18
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A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
- Narrated by: Eimear McBride
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 04-08-14
- Language: English
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May We Be Forgiven
- By: A. M. Homes
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 249
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 214
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Story4 out of 5 stars 213
Harold Silver, a Richard Nixon Scholar, has spent a lifetime watching his younger, taller and more successful brother, George....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant
- By P Murray on 17-05-13
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May We Be Forgiven
- Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 22-10-12
- Language: English
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The Lacuna
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 314
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 210
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 212
Born in the US and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing mother, Salome....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well, I like her voice!
- By patashnik on 28-09-10
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The Lacuna
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-07-10
- Language: English
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Home
- By: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Jack Boughton - prodigal son - has been gone 20 years. He returns home seeking refuge and to make peace with the past....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant storytelling
- By Mrs. S. White on 11-05-21
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Home
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 29-09-20
- Language: English
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The Road Home
- By: Rose Tremain
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 466
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 372
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 371
London holds the alluring possibilities of friendship, sex, money, and a new career. But, more than this, the sense of belonging....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Narration, Good Story
- By Yogita on 13-10-08
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The Road Home
- Narrated by: Steven Pacey
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 19-08-08
- Language: English
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Half of a Yellow Sun
- By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrated by: Zainab Jah
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,533
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,364
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,365
Ugwu, from a poor village, works as a houseboy for a university professor. Olanna, a young woman, has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos to live with her charismatic new lover, the professor....
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5 out of 5 stars
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In my living memory
- By julie on 19-10-17
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Half of a Yellow Sun
- Narrated by: Zainab Jah
- Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 28-09-17
- Language: English
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
- By: Lionel Shriver
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,010
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 790
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 787
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction, 2005.
Kevin Khatchadourian killed several of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a teacher, shortly before his 16th birthday....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Harrowing
- By Irene on 05-05-13
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 15-08-06
- Language: English
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Small Island
- By: Andrea Levy
- Narrated by: Andrea Levy
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,151
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,026
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,021
Andrea Levy's acclaimed Small Island is a delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel of empire, prejudice, war, and love....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A breath taking saga.
- By Dolly on 01-10-15
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Small Island
- Narrated by: Andrea Levy
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 07-05-15
- Language: English
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Bel Canto
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 256
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 234
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 233
Ann Patchett’s award winning, New York Times best-selling Bel Canto balances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language. The author’s lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible. The story, the performance, the characters...
- By Rose on 10-01-21
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Bel Canto
- Narrated by: Anna Fields
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 11-08-04
- Language: English
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The Idea of Perfection
- By: Kate Grenville
- Narrated by: Odette Joannidis
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Set in the eccentric backwater of Karakarook (pop. 1,374), New South Wales, this is the story of Douglas Cheeseman, a shy and clumsy engineer with jug-ears who meets Harley Savage....
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5 out of 5 stars
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My idea of perfection
- By Dev B on 16-12-23
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The Idea of Perfection
- Narrated by: Odette Joannidis
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 24-11-17
- Language: English
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A Woman's Place
- By: Linda Grant
- Narrated by: Anne Hallinan
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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San Francisco private eye Catherine Sayler and her partner, Jesse Price, are called in by a computer firm to investigate high-tech sexual harassment that soon turns deadly....
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A Woman's Place
- Narrated by: Anne Hallinan
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 19-03-19
- Language: English
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A Crime in the Neighborhood
- A Novel
- By: Suzanne Berne
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 7
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Story3 out of 5 stars 7
Reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird, A Crime in the Neighborhood is the story of a young girl’s coming of age during a turbulent time in American history....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dreary
- By timothy on 14-11-18
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A Crime in the Neighborhood
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 19-05-11
- Language: English
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