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No Place Like Home
- Narrated by: Chris Quyen
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Shortly after 9.30 in the morning, a young man walks into Surf City, Bondi’s newest shopping complex. He’s wearing a dark grey hoodie - and a bomb around his neck.
Just a few minutes later, he is locked in a shop on the upper floor. And trapped with him are four innocent bystanders.
For police chaplain Paul Doherty, called to the scene by Senior Sergeant Boehm, it’s a story that will end as tragically as it began. For this is clearly no ordinary siege. The boy, known as Ali Khan, seems as frightened as his hostages and has yet to utter a single word.
The seconds tick by for the five in the shop: Mitchell, the talented schoolboy; Mouse, the shop assistant; Kimmi, the nail-bar technician; and Roger Callaghan, the real estate agent whose reason for being in Bondi that day is far from innocent.
And, of course, there’s Ali Khan. Is he the embodiment of evil, as the villagers in his Tanzanian birthplace believe? Or just an innocent boy, betrayed at every turn, who just wants a place to call home?
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- starsunderwater
- 27-12-2021
Enjoyed book but not narration
I love Caroline Overington’s books. Set in Australia with an easy going style that keeps you hooked. I enjoyed this story, howewas distracted by the narrator’s accent which sounded partially American, and almost swapped this for a written book. I have rarely been so distracted by accent…. It was inconsistent, and some voices were whiny. Otherwise recommend this book.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-10-2021
great read
heartbreakingly good, could not stop listening. will definitely listen to more of Caroline Overington. Just wish narrator didn't try to do other voices for differant characters
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- User367
- 06-10-2021
The summary is more exciting than the book
Good concept, very poor execution. This book might have the potential to be okay on paper, but the audiobook is terrible.
Possibly the most boring protag, not helped at all by the super slow narration. Way too much of the priest and other non relevant happenings.
Story and characters are not exciting or engaging.
Did I mention the supeeerrr slllooowww narratiiooonnn. Not to mention the very non-aussie sounding accents...
Couldn't make it past half way.
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- Aussie Jenny
- 04-10-2021
Elements of an interesting book
This book could have been excellent, unfortunately it missed the mark, getting lost in unnecessary details instead of focusing on the main story.
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- Gai Stern
- 31-12-2021
A great story ruined by poor narration
I struggled to finish this book because the narration was excruciatingly bad. While it was a heartbreaking story, it was spoiled by the reading of it.
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- Jane
- 18-11-2021
Let down
The story has merit but the narration was terrible. If I was the author I would not be impressed. The accent of the narrator fluctuated between slightly Australian to a mix of US and British drawl along with terrible diction especially pronouncing any words sounding with TH that were substituted with an F, so for example fings instead of things. I understand that narration must at times be difficult but surely when choosing a narrator it is of the utmost importance to get it right for the author. The editing was also lack lustre with many sentences repeated.
I found myself correcting the narrator in my head to such an extent that I had to keep going back over the story. Apologies to the narrator, it's not personal.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-10-2021
Narration is awful
This is a great story let down by poor narration. Sounds like a high school kid reading in class.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-10-2021
narration was terrible, hard to listen to
struggled to listen to this one, the false accents were terrible, would have been better if it was not so forced
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- Kevin Ford
- 03-10-2021
Refugee rant masquerading as a story
This story is merely a coatrack for a pro-refugee tirade. It is full of inaccuracies and errors, for example, an Australian citizen being placed in a refugee detention centre because "there was nowhere else to go". The book will no doubt appeal to some, but Overington should stick to unopinionated fiction.
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- Maureen Abbot
- 19-06-2023
Performance Underwhelming
Narrator irritating Dictation was terrible and very annoying I persevered to see how story unfolded
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