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Eleanor & Park

By: Rainbow Rowell
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Sunil Malhotra
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Eleanor is the new girl in town, and she's never felt more alone. All mismatched clothes, mad red hair and chaotic home life, she couldn't stick out more if she tried. Then she takes the seat on the bus next to Park. Quiet, careful and - in Eleanor's eyes - impossibly cool, Park's worked out that flying under the radar is the best way to get by.

Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations and an ever-growing stack of mix tapes, Eleanor and Park fall in love. They fall in love the way you do the first time, when you're 16, and you have nothing and everything to lose.

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, Eleanor & Park is funny, sad, shocking and true - an exquisite nostalgia trip for anyone who has never forgotten their first love.

©2012 Rainbow Rowell (P)2013 Listening Library Body Positivity Coming of Age Contemporary Contemporary Romance Literature & Fiction Multicultural Romance Funny Heartfelt

Critic Reviews

Reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love, but what it's like to be young and in love with a book (John Green, author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS)
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This was such a beautifully written story that was so engaging and enjoyable to read. I loved the way the relationship developed gradually between the two characters so you really felt their growing connection to each other. The narration was great and I liked hearing the story from both perspectives through the alternating chapters. I am now a Rainbow Rowell fan and currently reading another of her books, which I'm having trouble putting down!

I loved this book!

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it's a nice story just a shame 3rd way through the book Eleanor becomes this most unlikeable character & the ending isn't just disappointing, it's a joke. it is an incomplete book. Really disappointed with the last quarter of the book, which is a shame because I was really getting into it.

Nice story, rubbish, incomplete ending

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The performances were wonderfully immersive and the stories and characters almost painfully real. A story of helplessness, how hard the realities of life can be and the redemptive power of first love. Remarkable

Beautiful and real

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this was my first Rainbow book and it holds a special place for me. I love their complicated, sometimes selfish relationship and the way they pull each other through. I'm actually a fan of the ending, leaving room for interpretation every time I re-listen or re-read. and hats of to Rebecca, my favourite narrator

special

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This story is about love but not how you look. Love is how you get along and how you can't live without the other person. Every teen should listen or read this book. 5 out of 5 for me. I loved it.

GREAT TEEN LOVE STORY

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easy read book, young adult romance.
truly is fiction as it left your imagination tells the story at the end

Let your imagination create the ending

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beautiful I want to listen to it again and again and I love the narrators.

MY NEW FAVORITE BOOK!!!

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A unique teen romance. Loved this book and had be griped till the end.
Perfect for anyone 13-18

Unique and insightful

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this book had me hanging on to the very last sentence- so so great, I can't wait to listen to the rest of Rainbow Rowell's books

so good

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a beautiful, poignant reminder of everything that's right, and some things wrong, with the world.

Exquisite, achingly tender rendition of first love

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