G from OZ
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Normal People
- By: Sally Rooney
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us - blazingly - about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege.
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Not worth the download
- By Tanya Ralph on 16-05-2019
- Normal People
- By: Sally Rooney
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
Mind-numbingly tedious
Reviewed: 06-03-2020
I could listen to Aoife McMahon read the phone book, but this story was so agonisingly tedious about teenage hormones i had to stop listening.
3 people found this helpful
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The Giver of Stars
- By: Jojo Moyes
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Alice is stifled, bored, and misunderstood. So when she meets wealthy and handsome American, Bennett Van Cleve, she is quickly swept off her feet. Marrying him and moving to America seems like a great adventure - but life as a newlywed in stuffy Baileyville, Kentucky, is not at all what she hoped for. Until, that is, she responds to a call for volunteers to start a travelling library, surprising herself by saying yes, before her husband can say no.
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Magnificent story with spellbinding narrator
- By G from OZ on 24-10-2019
- The Giver of Stars
- By: Jojo Moyes
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Magnificent story with spellbinding narrator
Reviewed: 24-10-2019
You know you've thoroughly enjoyed an audio-book when you want to listen to it all over again straight away. Every moment of this audio-book is a joy. What a triumph of a story. So interesting and all the characters are fantastically portrayed in words and voice. I highly recommend it!
5 people found this helpful
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Faking Friends
- By: Jane Fallon
- Narrated by: Sally Scott, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Faking Friends by Jane Fallon, read by Sally Scott and Kristin Atherton. Best friend. Soulmate. Confidante. Backstabber. Amy thought she knew who Melissa was - then again, Amy also thought she was on the verge of the wedding of her dreams to her long-distance fiancé. When her career begins to unravel, she pays a surprise trip home to London. Her boyfriend Jack is out, but another woman has been making herself at home....
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A little see through
- By stephen on 27-01-2018
- Faking Friends
- By: Jane Fallon
- Narrated by: Sally Scott, Kristin Atherton
Romping tale with excellent narration
Reviewed: 08-02-2018
Great story made better by fabulous narration. Enjoyed every minute of it, accents and all!
1 person found this helpful
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A Hundred Pieces of Me
- By: Lucy Dillon
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Gina is starting her life again, after a difficult few years she'd rather forget. But the belongings she's treasured for so long just don't seem to fit who she is now. So Gina makes a resolution. She'll keep just a hundred items - the rest can go. But that means coming to terms with her past and learning to embrace the future, whatever it might bring…
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DOG LOVERS DELIGHT
- By Wendy on 03-02-2015
- A Hundred Pieces of Me
- By: Lucy Dillon
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
Tedious story, unpleasant narration
Reviewed: 23-01-2018
Would you try another book written by Lucy Dillon or narrated by Juanita McMahon?
Story was rather self-indulgent and self-pitying. The word tedious kept springing to mind. I understand the moral of the story was to overcome that but it took a long time to get there.
It was made worse by the narrator who kept ... pausing at inappropriate moments. She also pronounced every name as if it were in CAPITAL LETTERS.
Would you recommend A Hundred Pieces of Me to your friends? Why or why not?
if you have nothing else to listen to.
Was A Hundred Pieces of Me worth the listening time?
not really
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Light and Shadow
- Memoirs of a Spy's Son
- By: Mark Colvin
- Narrated by: Mark Colvin
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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Mark Colvin is a broadcasting legend. He is the voice of ABC Radio’s leading current affairs program PM; he was a founding broadcaster for the groundbreaking youth station Double J; he initiated The World Today program; and he’s one of the most popular and influential journalists in the twittersphere. Mark has been covering local and global events for more than four decades. He has reported on wars, royal weddings and everything in between. In the midst of all this he discovered that his father was an MI6 spy.
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Enjoyable
- By Liv on 26-08-2017
- Light and Shadow
- Memoirs of a Spy's Son
- By: Mark Colvin
- Narrated by: Mark Colvin
Riveting and educational
Reviewed: 11-02-2017
A riveting account of his and his father's roller coaster lives, simultaneously providing a modern history lesson of world affairs over the past 50-60 tumultuous years. Written with unmatched intellect, wisdom and humility. Loved it.
2 people found this helpful
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What Alice Forgot
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
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When Alice Love surfaces from a beautiful dream to find she's been injured in a gym, she knows that something is very wrong – she hates exercise. Alice's first concern is her baby – she's pregnant with her first child, and she's desperate to see her husband, Nick, who she knows will be worried about her.But Alice isn't pregnant. And Nick isn't worried.
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Wonderful Story
- By Mari on 19-08-2014
- What Alice Forgot
- By: Liane Moriarty
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
The best
Reviewed: 21-09-2015
This is quite literally the best story I've ever read/listened to. Clever, quirky, unaffected, funny, spell-bindingly brilliant. Bring on the next one Liane!
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The Dressmaker
- By: Rosalie Ham
- Narrated by: Rachel Griffiths
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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After 20 years spent mastering the art of dressmaking at couture houses in Paris, Tilly Dunnage returns to the small Australian town she was banished from as a child. She plans only to check on her ailing mother and leave. But Tilly decides to stay, and though she is still an outcast, her lush, exquisite dresses prove irresistible to the prim women of Dungatar.
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Good Aussie yarn
- By Amazon Customer on 17-08-2015
- The Dressmaker
- By: Rosalie Ham
- Narrated by: Rachel Griffiths
What a ripper
Reviewed: 30-08-2015
What a wonderful wonderful story. And Rachel Griffiths is stupendous as the storyteller. Just brilliant.