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Oh Dear Silvia

By: Dawn French
Narrated by: Dawn French, James Fleet, Llewella Gideon, Jack Lowden, James McArdle, Pauline McLynn, Maggie Steed, Ruby Turner
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Dawn Frenchs’ second brilliant novel, Oh Dear Silvia, featuring a full cast of readers including Gareth Armstrong, Jane Collingwood, Beattie Edmondson, James Fleet, Llewella Gideon, Jack Lowden, James McArdle, Pauline McLynn, Patrice Naiambana, Celine Rosa Tan, Maggie Steed, Ruby Turner, and Dawn herself.

Who is in Coma Suite Number 5? A matchless lover? A supreme egotist? A selfless martyr? A bad mother? A cherished sister? A selfish wife? All of these. For this is Silvia Shute, who has always done exactly what she wants. Until now, when her life suddenly, shockingly stops. Her past holds a terrible secret, and now that she is unconscious in a hospital bed, her constant stream of visitors are set to uncover the mystery of her broken life. Meanwhile she must lie there, victim of the beloveds, the borings, the babblings and the plain bonkers. Like it or not, the truth is about to pay Silvia a visit. Again, and again and again...

©2012 Dawn French (P)2012 Penguin Audio Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Comedy
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Loved all the performances by the readers. The plot has a mix of humour and grief and captures precisely the human experience on many levels.

Absolutely fabulous

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not as good as the last one I listened too and when my son heard me listening to it he thought it was a children's book. the end was not satisfying for me but can not tell you why otherwise I will spoil the story

Left me unfulfilled

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Loved listening to this audio book… wish I knew if Cat had been charged. And how did Sylvia fall off the balcony? Thanks for the wonderful reading.

Oh dear Sylvia

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This was well written and performed, but not what I expected at all. The story was very depressing and although there were moments of comedy even they were dark.
If you like drama and stories about death then this could be for you, but I like to feel good after listening to a book not like I need to make an appointment to get anti depressants.

so depressing!

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The characters ate utterly believable as the hurts, pains and truths of the repercussions and impact a single decision made by Silvia are peeled away. The story unfolds as less of a narration and more of a revelation of the true heart of each character.

The repercussions of a single choice

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The fact there are different narrators really was a treat and helped me immerse myself fully info the world of Silvia.

very moving

brilliant

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This took me a while to get into, I'm glad I went with the audio version as I think it made it more entertaining than it would have been had I been reading it, with the variety of accents. I like Dawn French and the comedy shows she has written and stared in. This however is completely different to them, on many levels, with Dawn I don't know if it's because of her comedy, that I maybe expect fun, light, and make you laugh till you cry comedy, that maybe I didn't connect with Oh Dear Silvia the way I was hoping I would. Having said that it feels a bit disjointed, and I think had I been reading it I would have got lost half way through, this is in no way a did at Dawn, I really wanted to like this more than I did. Maybe I need to give it another listen to at another time, but for now my feelings towards this are mixed let's say.

Ok

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I pulled over and had to listen to the last 15 minutes

Tears

Great story

Another great book

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Have read her Fatty autobiography and really enjoyed it- but I'm just not into waiting for death

Bit morbid not for me

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