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Author: Beth O'Leary
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Author Beth O'Leary
Narrator Carrie Hope Fletcher
Duration 10h 9m
Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned br...
View BookAuthor: Yangsze Choo
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Author Yangsze Choo
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Duration 14h 9m
A captivating and magical story set in 1930s Malaysia about a dance-hall girl and an orphan boy who are brought together by a series of unexplained deaths and an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers. In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an 11-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest...
View BookAuthor: Afia Atakora
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Author Afia Atakora
Narrator Adenrele Ojo
Duration 13h 59m
The pale-skinned, black-eyed baby is a bad omen. That’s one thing the people on the old plantation are sure of. The other is that Miss Rue – midwife, healer, crafter of curses - will know what to do. But for once Rue doesn’t know. Times have changed since her mother, Miss May Belle, held the power to influence the life and death o...
View BookAuthor: Sue Moorcroft
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Author Sue Moorcroft
Narrator Stephanie Racine
Duration 12h 28m
Family means everything to Lily and Zinnia Cortez and, growing up in their non-conventional family unit, they and their two mums couldn’t have been closer. So it’s a bolt out of the blue when Lily finds her father wasn’t the anonymous one-night stand she’s always believed. She is in fact the result of her mum's reckless affa...
View BookAuthor: Jenny Offill
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Author Jenny Offill
Narrator Cassandra Campbell
Duration 3h 46m
'What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most useful skills? People think I'm funny' Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practise her other calling: as an unofficial shrink. Fo...
View BookAuthor: Marian Keyes
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Author Marian Keyes
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Duration 17h 7m
The brand-new book from the bestselling author of The Break and The Woman Who Stole My Life They're a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together - birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weekends away. And they're a happy family. Johnn...
View BookAuthor: Angela Makholwa
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Author Angela Makholwa
Narrator Zuzu Robinson
Duration 7h 40m
Young, beautiful, and ambitious, Bontle Tau has Johannesburg wrapped around her finger. Her generous admirers are falling over themselves to pay for her Mercedes, her penthouse, and her Instagrammable holidays. It's a long way from the neighborhood she started out in, and it's been far from easy. Along with making sure she always looks fabulous-bec...
View BookAuthor: Maria Semple
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Author Maria Semple
Narrator Kathleen Wilhoite
Duration 9h 41m
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To Elgie Branch, a Microsoft wunderkind, she's his hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled wife. To fellow mothers at the school gate, she's a menace. To design experts, she's a revolutionary architect. And to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend, and quite simply, mum. Then Bernadette disappears. And Bee must take a t...
View BookAuthor: Maeve Binchy
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Author Maeve Binchy
Narrator Kate Binchy
Duration 16h 33m
Generous-hearted Benny and the elfin Eve Malone have been best friends throughout their childhoods in sleepy Knockglen. When they both go to study in Dublin, they meet a circle of friends that includes handsome Jack Foley and the selfish and beautiful Nan Mahon, whose ambition will drag them all into trouble. As Knockglen is surprised into new life...
View BookAuthor: Sally Vickers
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Author Sally Vickers
Narrator Barbara Flynn
Duration 7h 24m
Brought to you by Penguin. The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian, Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent Nan, who leads a secret life as an award-winning poet when she is not teaching her grandson Billy how to lie;...
View BookAuthor: Nina Bawden
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Author Nina Bawden
Narrator Carole Boyd
Duration 7h 15m
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 o...
View BookAuthor: Louise Bagshawe
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Author Louise Bagshawe
Narrator Julia Barrie
Duration 9h 20m
For Lucy Evans, life is perfect. An unrepentant tomboy, she lives with her best mate, Ollie, in a great flat, has her dream job reviewing computer games and just enough cash for a few pints and a takeaway. But life takes a turn for the worst when not only Ollie's girlfriend, Annoying Victoria, proposes and wants Lucy out of the flat but, soon after...
View BookAuthor: Anita Brookner
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Author Anita Brookner
Narrator Judith Whale
Duration 8h 45m
Modest, reliable and decorous throughout his life, George Bland faces retirement with uncertainty and solitude, made worse by the early death of his friend Putnam. Into his life comes the invasive and mercurial Katy Gibb, with designs on George that are unquestionably financial. To George however she represents a last chance to abandon discretion a...
View BookAuthor: Joanna Trollope
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Author Joanna Trollope
Narrator Samantha Bond
Duration 5h
Ben is, at last, leaving home. At 22, he's the youngest of the family. His mother, Edie, an actress, is distraught. His father, Russell, a theatrical agent, is rather hoping to get his wife back after decades of family life. His brother, Matthew, is struggling in a relationship in which he achieves and earns less than his girlfriend. His sister, Ro...
View BookAuthor: Donna Tartt
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Author Donna Tartt
Narrator Donna Tartt
Duration 6h
Although the Cleves generally revelled in every detail of their family history, the events of 'the terrible Mother's Day' were never discussed. On that day nine-year-old Robin Cleves was found hanging by the neck from a rope slung over a tree in the garden. Twelve years later, Robin's youngest sister Harriet, a baby when the tragedy occurred, is de...
View BookAuthor: Joanne Harris
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Author Joanne Harris
Narrator Anne Cater
Duration 12h 30m
On the tiny Breton island of Le Devin, life has remained almost unchanged for over a hundred years. For generations, two rival communities, the wealthy La Houssiniere and the impoverished village of Les Salants, have fought for control over the island's only beach and the source of its prosperity. When Mado, a spirited local girl, returns to Les Sa...
View BookAuthor: Nina Bawden
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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...
View BookAuthor: Sue Miller
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Author Sue Miller
Narrator Lorelei King
Duration 3h
Catherine Hubbard is at a crossroads in her San Francisco life. She is twice divorced and her three children are grown and scattered. Then news comes that she has inherited her grandmother Georgia's home in Vermont. Catherine finds in Vermont not only the ghosts of her own past but those of Georgia's as well. Georgia's diaries, discovered in the at...
View BookAuthor: Bryce Courtenay
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Author Bryce Courtenay
Narrator Humphrey Bower
Duration 32h
Inspired by real events, Bryce Courtenay tells the story of three people from vastly differing backgrounds. All they have in common is a tough beginning in life. Jack McKenzie is a harmonica player, soldier, dreamer and small-time professional fisherman from a tiny island in Bass Strait. Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan is a strong-willed woman hiding from an...
View BookA Little Love, A Little Learning
Author: Nina Bawden
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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...
View BookAuthor: Penelope Lively
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Author Penelope Lively
Narrator Sheila Mitchell
Duration 8h 10m
In this piece of fiction, Penelope Lively takes moments from her own life and asks 'what if some outcomes had been otherwise?' What if her family's flight from Egypt in 1942 had taken a different route? What would her life have been like if she had become pregnant when she was eighteen? If she had married someone else? If she had become an archaeol...
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