AuthorNina Bawden
NarratorCarole Boyd
Duration7h 15m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels
PublisherIsis
VersionUnabridged
The last thing Tom Jones had expected was to run into Portia on holiday. His wife Amy knows he had an affair some four years ago, but she had never met 'the other woman'. What a curious twist of fate that she is on the same flight as them - and staying at the same hotel. Philip Mann, also staying at the Hotel Parthenon, is in Greece to make sense of the suicide of Matilda. Everywhere he goes he sees her face, runs over in his mind the events leading up to her death and plays back the memories.
Author: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Richard Owens
Duration 7h 23m
This story is narrated by a painter, who specialises as a copyist. All around him, the women with whom he is in love leave signs which alter emotional details: Clio, his child-bride, is destructive in her pliancy; his first wife, Helen, betrays him; and Maisie, his forthright East End mother has her own secrets. And the two central figures - the pa...
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A Little Love, A Little Learning
Author: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Julia Sands
Duration 9h 40m
It is the year of the Queen's Coronation and Joanna, Kate and Poll are living in a London suburb with their mother and stepfather, Boyd, the local doctor. Accepting unquestioningly his unstinting love, they are not curious about their vanished natural father - but the safety of their lives is tenuous. The past arrives to upset the present in the pe...
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Summer At the Comfort Food Cafe
Author: Debbie Johnson
Author Debbie Johnson
Narrator Dawn Murphy
Duration 9h 50m
The Comfort Food Cafe is perched on a windswept clifftop at what feels like the edge of the world, serving up the most delicious cream teas, beautifully baked breads and carefully crafted cupcakes. For tourists and locals alike, the ramshackle cafe overlooking the beach is a beacon of laughter, companionship and security - a place like no other, a...
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Author: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Bernard Cribbins
Duration 4h 16m
12 June 2040. Gandy, Tom's Grandfather, is due to be installed in Nostalgia Block 95 where he will be 'looked after' forever. When he slips through a door leading beyond the Wall, Tom cannot resist following him to the barbaric Outside.
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Author: Abbi Waxman
Author Abbi Waxman
Narrator Jessica Preddy
Duration 9h 28m
Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They're excited to meet her! She'll have to Speak. To....
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Author: Curtis Sittenfield
Author Curtis Sittenfield
Narrator Carrington Macduffie
Duration 13h 58m
'Awfully opinionated for a girl' is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb. Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that's the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college, and her star rises. At Yale Law School, she continues to be a leader- and catches the eye of driven, handsome and charismatic Bill. But when he asks her to ma...
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Author: Brandon Taylor
Author Brandon Taylor
Narrator Kevin R. Free
Duration 9h 25m
Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. For reasons of self-preservation, Wallace has enforced a wary distance even wit...
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Author: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 3h 47m
There's something mysterious, exciting, but frightening, too, about the house Bosie, Clara and Noel have come to stay in. Surrounded by its overgrown garden, no other houses in sight, it looks lonely. And are the shuttered windows to keep burglars out, or to keep other people in - like a prison? To the three children, staying with grandparents they...
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Author: Nina Bawden
Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Eve Karpf
Duration 3h 30m
Kate, Robin and Sammy have a friend called Squib, who they met in the park. Squib is an odd little boy, and Kate is certain that there is a terrible secret behind his frightened eyes. Her attempt to help him leads her on an intriguing and dangerous journey.
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Author: Celeste Ng
Author Celeste Ng
Narrator Cassandra Campbell
Duration 10h 8m
Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, James is consumed by guilt, and Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to hold someone accountable. But it's the youngest in the family - Hannah - who may b...
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