Get Your Free Audiobook
Mothering Sunday
Non-member price: $32.77
People who bought this also bought...
-
The Dutch House
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Tom Hanks
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of black hair, her wit, her brilliance. Life is coherent, played out under the watchful eyes of the house’s former owners in the frames of their oil paintings. Then one day their father brings Andrea home.
-
-
Great witty narration
- By christiana O on 27-09-2019
-
The Girl in the Letter
- By: Emily Gunnis
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved. 1956. When Ivy Jenkins falls pregnant she is sent in disgrace to St Margaret's, a dark, brooding house for unmarried mothers. Her baby is adopted against her will. Ivy will never leave. Present day. Samantha Harper is a journalist desperate for a break. When she stumbles on a letter from the past, the contents shock and move her. The letter is from a young mother, begging to be rescued from St Margaret's. Before it is too late.
-
-
Fantastically True
- By DebManning on 03-02-2019
-
Warlight
- By: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel are abandoned by their parents who leave the country on business, and are left in the dubious care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. Nathaniel is introduced to The Moth’s band of criminal misfits and is caught up in a series of teenage misadventures, from smuggling greyhounds for illegal dog racing to lovers’ trysts in abandoned buildings at night. But is this eccentric crew really what and who they claim to be? And most importantly, what happened to Nathaniel’s mother?
-
-
Deeply moving
- By @GlobalCrimeFict on 22-06-2018
-
The Natural Way of Things
- By: Charlotte Wood
- Narrated by: Ailsa Piper
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert. The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control and of what it means to hunt and be hunted. But most of all, it is the story of two friends, their sisterly love and courage.
-
-
not what you expect
- By tamzyn bielecka on 20-12-2017
-
The Mirror and the Light
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Length: 34 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, before Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves.
-
Memories of the Future
- By: Siri Hustvedt
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A provocative, exuberant novel about time, desire, memory and the imagination, which tells the story of a young Midwestern woman's first year in New York in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbour, Lucy Brite. As she listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building, S. H. transcribes her neighbour's bizarre and increasingly ominous monologues in a notebook, along with sundry other adventures, until one night when Lucy bursts into her apartment to rescue S. H. from a frightening situation.
-
The Dutch House
- By: Ann Patchett
- Narrated by: Tom Hanks
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion. Though his father is distant and his mother is absent, Danny has his beloved sister Maeve: Maeve, with her wall of black hair, her wit, her brilliance. Life is coherent, played out under the watchful eyes of the house’s former owners in the frames of their oil paintings. Then one day their father brings Andrea home.
-
-
Great witty narration
- By christiana O on 27-09-2019
-
The Girl in the Letter
- By: Emily Gunnis
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved. 1956. When Ivy Jenkins falls pregnant she is sent in disgrace to St Margaret's, a dark, brooding house for unmarried mothers. Her baby is adopted against her will. Ivy will never leave. Present day. Samantha Harper is a journalist desperate for a break. When she stumbles on a letter from the past, the contents shock and move her. The letter is from a young mother, begging to be rescued from St Margaret's. Before it is too late.
-
-
Fantastically True
- By DebManning on 03-02-2019
-
Warlight
- By: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: George Blagden
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel are abandoned by their parents who leave the country on business, and are left in the dubious care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. Nathaniel is introduced to The Moth’s band of criminal misfits and is caught up in a series of teenage misadventures, from smuggling greyhounds for illegal dog racing to lovers’ trysts in abandoned buildings at night. But is this eccentric crew really what and who they claim to be? And most importantly, what happened to Nathaniel’s mother?
-
-
Deeply moving
- By @GlobalCrimeFict on 22-06-2018
-
The Natural Way of Things
- By: Charlotte Wood
- Narrated by: Ailsa Piper
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert. The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control and of what it means to hunt and be hunted. But most of all, it is the story of two friends, their sisterly love and courage.
-
-
not what you expect
- By tamzyn bielecka on 20-12-2017
-
The Mirror and the Light
- By: Hilary Mantel
- Length: 34 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, before Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves.
-
Memories of the Future
- By: Siri Hustvedt
- Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A provocative, exuberant novel about time, desire, memory and the imagination, which tells the story of a young Midwestern woman's first year in New York in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbour, Lucy Brite. As she listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building, S. H. transcribes her neighbour's bizarre and increasingly ominous monologues in a notebook, along with sundry other adventures, until one night when Lucy bursts into her apartment to rescue S. H. from a frightening situation.
-
The Choke
- By: Sofie Laguna
- Narrated by: Danielle Baynes
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Abandoned by her mother as a toddler, only occasionally visited by her volatile father and raised solely by her tormented Pop, Justine finds sanctuary in The Choke, a place where the banks of the Murray River are so narrow they can almost touch. Although Justine doesn't know it, her father is a menacing criminal, and the world she is exposed to is one of great peril to her. She must make sense of it on her own - and when she eventually does, she knows what she has to do....
-
-
Neither story nor narrator were great
- By Erica Wodzak on 23-03-2018
-
Home Fire
- By: Kamila Shamsie
- Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London - or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Handsome and privileged, he inhabits a London worlds away from theirs.
-
-
I loved this book
- By Sandra on 13-06-2018
-
Hare's Fur
- By: Trevor Shearston
- Narrated by: Paul Haley
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Russell Bass is a potter living on the edge of Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains. His wife has been dead less than a year, and although he has a few close friends, he is living a mostly solitary life. Each month he hikes into the valley below his house to collect rock for glazes from a remote creek bed. One autumn morning, he finds a chocolate wrapper on the path. His curiosity leads him to a cave where three siblings - two young children and a teenage girl - are camped out, hiding from social services and the police.
-
Manhattan Beach
- By: Jennifer Egan
- Narrated by: Heather Lind, Norbert Leo Butz, Vincent Piazza
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly 12 years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Years later her father has disappeared, and the country is at war.
-
-
It's an easy listen
- By Avril on 05-01-2018
-
The Silence of the Girls
- By: Pat Barker
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Michael Fox
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The great city of Troy is under siege as Greek heroes Achilles and Agamemnon wage bloody war over a stolen woman. In the Greek camp, another woman is watching and waiting: Briseis. She was a queen of this land until Achilles sacked her city and murdered her husband and sons. Now she is Achilles' concubine: a prize of battle. Briseis is just one among thousands of women backstage in this war - the slaves and prostitutes, the nurses, the women who lay out the dead - all of them voiceless in history.
-
-
no longer silent
- By Moira Delandes on 11-02-2019
-
Lincoln in the Bardo
- By: George Saunders
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman, David Sedaris, George Saunders, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any other, for no one but Saunders could conceive it. February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved 11-year-old son, Willie, dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery.
-
-
Does not translate
- By Finding it in the end on 27-05-2017
-
The Glorious Heresies
- Winner of the Baileys' Women's Prize for Fiction 2016
- By: Lisa McInerney
- Narrated by: Shelley Atkinson
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
He was definitely dead, whoever he was. He wore a once-black jumper and a pair of shiny tracksuit bottoms. The back of his head was cracked and his hair matted, but it had been foxy before that. A tall man, a skinny rake, another string of piss, now departed. She hadn't gotten a look at his face before she flaked him with the Holy Stone, and she couldn't bring herself to turn him over. One messy murder affects the lives of five misfits who exist on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash society.
-
-
Fantastic book
- By MISS on 31-03-2017
-
Mistress of the Ritz
- A Novel
- By: Melanie Benjamin
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II - while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hôtel Ritz in Paris.
-
The Red Notebook
- By: Antoine Laurain
- Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Heroic bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's nothing in the bag to indicate who it belongs to, although there's all sorts of other things in it. Laurent feels a strong impulse to find the owner and tries to puzzle together who she might be from the contents of the bag. Especially a red notebook with her jottings, which really makes him want to meet her. Without even a name to go on, and only a few of her possessions to help him, how is he to find one woman in a city of millions?
-
-
Such a weird, forced story with little character developments.
- By Anonymous User on 09-01-2018
-
Days Without End
- By: Sebastian Barry
- Narrated by: Aidan Kelly
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Having signed up for the US Army in the 1850s, aged barely 17, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and ultimately the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in, they find these days to be vivid. Both an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America's past.
-
-
Riveting
- By LYNNEF on 29-09-2017
-
After the Party
- By: Cressida Connolly
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has returned to England after years abroad. Moving into her sister's grand country house, she soon finds herself entangled in a new world of idealistic beliefs and seemingly innocent friendships. Fevered talk of another war infiltrates their small, privileged circle, giving way to a thrilling solution: a great and charismatic leader, who will restore England to its former glory. At a party hosted by her new friends, Phyllis lets down her guard for a single moment, with devastating consequences.
-
Happiness
- By: Aminatta Forna
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Waterloo Bridge, London. Two strangers collide. Attila, a Ghanaian psychiatrist, and Jean, an American studying the habits of urban foxes. From this chance encounter in the midst of the rush of a great city, numerous moments of connections span out and interweave, bringing disparate lives together. Attila has arrived in London with two tasks: to deliver a keynote speech on trauma and to check up on the daughter of friends, his 'niece', Ama, who hasn't called home in a while. It soon emerges that she has been swept up in an immigration crackdown - and now her young son, Tano, is missing.
Publisher's Summary
Award-winning writer Graham Swift returns with his profoundly moving new novel, Mothering Sunday.
It is March 30th 1924. It is Mothering Sunday. How will Jane Fairchild, orphan and housemaid, occupy her time when she has no mother to visit? How, shaped by the events of this never to be forgotten day, will her future unfold?
Beginning with an intimate assignation and opening to embrace decades, Mothering Sunday has at its heart both the story of a life and the life that stories can magically contain. Constantly surprising, joyously sensual and deeply moving, it is Graham Swift at his thrilling best.
More from the same
Author
Narrator
What members say
Average Customer Ratings
Overall
-
-
5 Stars10
-
4 Stars10
-
3 Stars3
-
2 Stars0
-
1 Stars0
Performance
-
-
5 Stars11
-
4 Stars9
-
3 Stars2
-
2 Stars0
-
1 Stars0
Story
-
-
5 Stars10
-
4 Stars9
-
3 Stars3
-
2 Stars0
-
1 Stars0
Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- susan
- 11-11-2016
amazing Story well told.
This book took awhile for me to get into but I now have read it twice and became enthralled by her insights about writing, finding a language and what grabs you in a book. Mothering Sunday grabbed me
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- W Perry Hall
- 19-04-2016
The Indelibles
After a lusty, au naturel launch, this welterweight novel is a poignant portrayal of the spirit of a woman who soared. Centered on the meditations of a March 1924 day of a 22-year-old maid (raised an orphan after being left on doorsteps in a basket), the tale transports the reader with her ponderings, perched upon the vivid images and emotions of the day's indelible moments.
This compact, soul-kindling book studies how a life in the day, the convergence of remembered people, places and things, can impact a young lady's humanity and altogether alter the course of her life, traveling through the light of literature.
9 of 16 people found this review helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- D
- 12-06-2016
Exceptional - sensitive and seductive.
Completely compelling from the beginning. A stunning listen which is both sensitively written and utterly transportative!
4 of 6 people found this review helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Amazon Customer
- 04-08-2018
beautifully written
A strange narrative, captures a dying era, but so drawn out. Glad it wasn't too long - enjoyed it though
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Jonathan
- 15-09-2017
Thoroughly enjoyed it
Any additional comments?
I loved the audiobook - it's short but beautifully formed. It strikes me as a difficult book to narrate, but I thought that Eve Webster did a great job.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Suswati
- 03-07-2017
Fluffy period melodrama, not my cup of tea
Graham Swift is an eloquent writer as his descriptions are vivid however the story itself is rather flakey. It's pretty much about an old woman looking back at her life to a particular point where she had an affair with her master while she was a maid. There are far too many descriptions about bodily fluids which only a man would deem to care about. While the sentiment is there, there wasn't enough substance or point to the novel.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Lynne Adams
- 24-06-2017
Perfect Craft
A long short story which poses as many questions as it answers and perfectly illustrates the great craft of story or tale telling. A beautiful reading enhances the spell.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- o. Hodgkinson
- 10-05-2017
descriptive, historical snapshot
Where does Mothering Sunday rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
low on the list mainly due to the infuriating and repetitive voice of the narrator
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
most interesting: Getting a glimpse of life post the first world warleast: I found the detail too much sometimes, situations being repeated several times.
What didn’t you like about Eve Webster’s performance?
Her voice was so annoying it actually made me feel cross! It went up after every 4 or 5 words and this pattern was the same for the entire book, regardless of whether the sentence was happy, sad, thoughtful etc. Very hard to follow the plot with this disjointed style of reading.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Possibly, if it had a better narrator. the plot would stand it.
Any additional comments?
Beautiful descriptions but possibly too much. The story is minimal but interesting.
-
Overall

- Nike
- 14-03-2017
Very good
Well written and amusing and subtle account which could be biographical of a number of modern authors.
-
Overall

- james davis
- 11-01-2019
No
Bloody awful and long way off from the start but not too until after that was not the only t hing
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Bridget Campbell
- 24-07-2017
Did not like it
What disappointed you about Mothering Sunday?
It was all about a sexual affair on Mothering Sunday.
What could Graham Swift have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Not connect sexual affairs with Mothering Sunday. You are not supposed to imagine your parents doing this sort of thing on Mothering Sunday.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Anger
0 of 1 people found this review helpful