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Try Hard
- Tales from the life of a needy overachiever
- By: Em Rusciano
- Narrated by: Em Rusciano
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Funny, feisty and fabulous, Em Rusciano's insights into her world of mayhem, marriage and motherhood are a laugh-out-loud, cry-out-loud balm for the soul. From her exploits at the Miss Sheila Fancypants School of Dance and her efforts to secure a solo at her end-of-year performance to embracing the spotlight as an Australian Idol contestant and her deep and abiding love for John Farnham, Em Rusciano is a self-confessed bottomless pit of anxiety with a taste for glitter.
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Laugh & Cried
- By Monique on 23-11-2017
- Try Hard
- Tales from the life of a needy overachiever
- By: Em Rusciano
- Narrated by: Em Rusciano
Thanks, Em
Reviewed: 04-08-2020
Totally brilliant, Bitch! A delightful, heartbreaking, honest and raw look at a life that's definitely worth sharing.
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Hidden Valley Road
- By: Robert Kolker
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the air force brought them to Colorado, where their 12 children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins - aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony - and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse.
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Absolutely brilliant
- By chickybabe3 on 14-02-2021
- Hidden Valley Road
- By: Robert Kolker
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
An incredible account and insight
Reviewed: 14-06-2020
An interesting and compelling look at the effects of mental illness on both the micro and macro levels.
1 person found this helpful
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This Is How It Always Is
- By: Laurie Frankel
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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This is Claude. He's five years old, the youngest of five brothers, and loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They're just not sure they're ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude's secret. Until one day it explodes. Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is is a novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family.
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Beautifully written and performed
- By Jennifer on 10-12-2018
- This Is How It Always Is
- By: Laurie Frankel
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Loved it!
Reviewed: 11-02-2020
Beautifully written and performed, I enjoyed every moment of this story. The cadence of the writing, the characters, the flow of it and how invested in even some of the minor characters I became made me feel part of the story; indeed, their family!
1 person found this helpful
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The Day the Lies Began
- By: Kylie Kaden
- Narrated by: Casey Withoos
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
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It happened the day of the Moon Festival. It could have been left behind, they all could have moved on with their lives. But secrets have a habit of rising to the surface, especially in small towns. Two couples, four ironclad friendships, the perfect coastal holiday town. With salt-stung houses perched like lifeguards overlooking the shore, Lago Point is the scene of postcards, not crime scenes. Wife and mother Abbi, town cop Blake, schoolteacher Hannah and local doctor Will are caught in their own tangled webs of deceit.
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Fantabulous
- By Annabelle on 15-09-2019
- The Day the Lies Began
- By: Kylie Kaden
- Narrated by: Casey Withoos
So very disappointing - too hard to finish
Reviewed: 24-11-2019
I persevered and persevered but just couldn't finish it. I even Googled reviews to see what I was missing - a lot said the start was too long so I pushed through, with no pay off. I wanted to love it for more than just supporting local, female talent but this was a MASSIVE miss for me. The story takes too long to develop, the characters aren't likeable, the dialogue is cringe worthy in parts and while perhaps finishing it would have tied everything together, it was too arduous for me to get there. Clearly others loved the book but not me.
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Heartburn
- By: Nora Ephron
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes. For in this inspired confection of adultery, revenge, group therapy, and pot roast, the creator of Sleepless in Seattle reminds us that comedy depends on anguish as surely as a proper gravy depends on flour and butter.
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Not For Me
- By Penelope on 05-01-2020
- Heartburn
- By: Nora Ephron
- Narrated by: Meryl Streep
Not sure what the fuss is about
Reviewed: 19-07-2019
I won't lie, some of the lines made me smile and Meryl Streep's performance is impeccable (of course), but the story fell so short of its potential, it was laborious to finish.
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Daisy Jones and the Six
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Sara Arrington, Jennifer Beals, Arthur Bishop, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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This is the whole story, right from the beginning: the sun-bleached streets, the grimy bars on the Sunset Strip, knowing Daisy’s moment was coming. Relive the euphoria of success and experience the terror that nothing will ever be as good again. Take the uppers so you can keep on believing, take the downers so you can sleep, eventually. Wonder who you are without the drugs or the music or the fans or the family that prop you up. Make decisions that will forever feel tough. Find beauty where you least expect it.
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Incredible Performance!
- By Anonymous User on 12-04-2019
Outstanding across the board
Reviewed: 05-04-2019
This is by far my favourite Audible performance. Everything about it is perfect and brings the story to life in the most brilliant way. Loved it!
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This Is Going to Hurt
- Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
- By: Adam Kay
- Narrated by: Adam Kay
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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Welcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life-and-death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids and the hospital parking meter earns more than you. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know - and more than a few things you didn't - about life on and off the hospital ward.
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Not for the prudish but well written/read
- By Carron on 11-08-2018
- This Is Going to Hurt
- Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
- By: Adam Kay
- Narrated by: Adam Kay
LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS!
Reviewed: 25-01-2019
Thank you, Adam, for sharing your stories with such respect (ish 😉), humour and good intention. Definitely one of my new favourite books for so many reasons.
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Lost Without You
- By: Rachael Johns
- Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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On a special night that is supposed to be a celebration of new beginnings, Paige MacRitchie's joy quickly falls away when her mother collapses during the speeches at her book launch. In the aftermath, and terrified of losing her, Paige decides she wants to make the ultimate tribute to her parents' perfect marriage: She will wear her mother's wedding dress for her own big day. There's just one problem - her mum, Rebecca, no longer has the dress. As Paige tries to track down the elusive gown, she discovers that Rebecca has a long-hidden secret that could blow her whole family apart.
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So enjoyable
- By Elysia Anketell on 28-11-2018
- Lost Without You
- By: Rachael Johns
- Narrated by: Rebecca Macauley
Good intentions, but...
Reviewed: 16-01-2019
While the book discusses important topics like family, mental health, fertility and complex relationships, the story itself is told in such a clunky way the gravitas is lost. Some of the dialogue actually made me cringe and was hard to listen to. I only finished it because I was travelling in a car with no wifi to download an alternative. The ending however, was predictable and sickly sweet and didn't redeem the rest of the book as I'd hoped.
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
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Anyone who has heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a collection from him is cause for jubilation. A move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious pieces, including 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that 'every day spent with you is like having a caesarean section'.
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This story had me laughing out loud all the time.
- By Chris on 09-07-2020
- Me Talk Pretty One Day
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
Delightful. Intelligent. Funny. Touching.
Reviewed: 16-12-2018
What a brilliant collection of stories that will make you laugh and cry. Loved hearing them read by Sedaris too.
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- By: Karen Joy Fowler
- Narrated by: Katharine Mangold
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Rosemary's started college, and she's decided not to tell anyone about her family. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone - vanished from her life. There was something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern. You'll have to find out for yourself what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other.
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Worth a listen. :)
- By Katherine R. Day on 15-03-2016
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- By: Karen Joy Fowler
- Narrated by: Katharine Mangold
Smart, insightful and an absolute delight!
Reviewed: 11-12-2018
A beautiful story and analysis of what it means to be human, of family and life. Loved it.