Get Your Free Audiobook
-
Stepsister
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy
Non-member price: $44.06
People who bought this also bought...
-
Poisoned
- By: Jennifer Donnelly
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Beautiful Sophie, with lips as red as blood, skin as pale as snow and hair as dark as night, is about to come of age and inherit her father's throne. But Sophie's stepmother wants rid of her - beautiful she may be, but too weak and foolish to reign. And Sophie believes her, as she believes all the things that have been said about her - all the poisonous words people use to keep girls like her from becoming too powerful, too strong.
-
The Girl and the Stars
- Book of the Ice, Book 1
- By: Mark Lawrence
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On the vastness of the ice there is no room for individuals. No one survives alone. To resist the cold, to endure the months of night when even the air itself begins to freeze, requires a special breed. Variation is dangerous, difference is fatal. And Yaz is different. Torn from her family, from the boy she thought she would spend her life with, Yaz has to carve a new path for herself in a world whose existence she never suspected. A world full of danger. Beneath the ice, Yaz will learn that Abeth is older and stranger than she had ever imagined.
-
-
loved it
- By Sam Burgess on 15-05-2020
-
Liar
- By: Lesley Pearse
- Narrated by: Ms Lucy Brownhill
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In a Shepherd's Bush bedsit, Amelia White dreams of being a reporter. The closest she's come is selling advertising in the local paper. Until the fateful day she stumbles on a truly shocking scoop. Round the corner from her home, she discovers the body of a murder victim, dumped among the rubbish. When the police and reporters descend, Amelia is horrified at the assumptions made and lies soon to be spread about this poor young woman.
-
-
Drama
- By Anonymous User on 02-07-2020
-
House of Salt and Sorrows
- By: Erin A. Craig
- Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were 12, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that her sister's deaths were no accidents. The girls have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts.
-
-
Beautiful Retelling
- By D Cookie on 01-01-2021
-
The Winter Rose
- By: Jennifer Donnelly
- Narrated by: Jill Tanner
- Length: 34 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It has been 12 years since a dark, murderous figure stalked the alleys and courts of Whitechapel. And yet, in the summer of 1900, East London is still poor, still brutal, still a shadow city to its western twin. Among the reformers is an idealistic young woman named India Selwyn-Jones, recently graduated from medical school. With the help of her influential fiance - Freddie Lytton, an up-and-coming Liberal MP - she works to shut down the area's opium dens that destroy both body and soul.
-
-
A Captivating Love Story
- By Anonymous User on 17-07-2019
-
Holy Sister
- Book of the Ancestor, Book 3
- By: Mark Lawrence
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
They came against her as a child. Now they face the woman. The ice is advancing, the Corridor narrowing, and the empire is under siege from the Scithrowl in the east and the Durns in the west. Everywhere, the emperor’s armies are in retreat. Nona faces the final challenges that must be overcome if she is to become a full sister in the order of her choice. But it seems unlikely that Nona and her friends will have time to earn a nun’s habit before war is on their doorstep.
-
-
Fan-bloody-tastic
- By Mathew Rauicava on 02-07-2019
-
Poisoned
- By: Jennifer Donnelly
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Beautiful Sophie, with lips as red as blood, skin as pale as snow and hair as dark as night, is about to come of age and inherit her father's throne. But Sophie's stepmother wants rid of her - beautiful she may be, but too weak and foolish to reign. And Sophie believes her, as she believes all the things that have been said about her - all the poisonous words people use to keep girls like her from becoming too powerful, too strong.
-
The Girl and the Stars
- Book of the Ice, Book 1
- By: Mark Lawrence
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
On the vastness of the ice there is no room for individuals. No one survives alone. To resist the cold, to endure the months of night when even the air itself begins to freeze, requires a special breed. Variation is dangerous, difference is fatal. And Yaz is different. Torn from her family, from the boy she thought she would spend her life with, Yaz has to carve a new path for herself in a world whose existence she never suspected. A world full of danger. Beneath the ice, Yaz will learn that Abeth is older and stranger than she had ever imagined.
-
-
loved it
- By Sam Burgess on 15-05-2020
-
Liar
- By: Lesley Pearse
- Narrated by: Ms Lucy Brownhill
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In a Shepherd's Bush bedsit, Amelia White dreams of being a reporter. The closest she's come is selling advertising in the local paper. Until the fateful day she stumbles on a truly shocking scoop. Round the corner from her home, she discovers the body of a murder victim, dumped among the rubbish. When the police and reporters descend, Amelia is horrified at the assumptions made and lies soon to be spread about this poor young woman.
-
-
Drama
- By Anonymous User on 02-07-2020
-
House of Salt and Sorrows
- By: Erin A. Craig
- Narrated by: Emily Lawrence
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were 12, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that her sister's deaths were no accidents. The girls have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts.
-
-
Beautiful Retelling
- By D Cookie on 01-01-2021
-
The Winter Rose
- By: Jennifer Donnelly
- Narrated by: Jill Tanner
- Length: 34 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
It has been 12 years since a dark, murderous figure stalked the alleys and courts of Whitechapel. And yet, in the summer of 1900, East London is still poor, still brutal, still a shadow city to its western twin. Among the reformers is an idealistic young woman named India Selwyn-Jones, recently graduated from medical school. With the help of her influential fiance - Freddie Lytton, an up-and-coming Liberal MP - she works to shut down the area's opium dens that destroy both body and soul.
-
-
A Captivating Love Story
- By Anonymous User on 17-07-2019
-
Holy Sister
- Book of the Ancestor, Book 3
- By: Mark Lawrence
- Narrated by: Helen Duff
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
They came against her as a child. Now they face the woman. The ice is advancing, the Corridor narrowing, and the empire is under siege from the Scithrowl in the east and the Durns in the west. Everywhere, the emperor’s armies are in retreat. Nona faces the final challenges that must be overcome if she is to become a full sister in the order of her choice. But it seems unlikely that Nona and her friends will have time to earn a nun’s habit before war is on their doorstep.
-
-
Fan-bloody-tastic
- By Mathew Rauicava on 02-07-2019
Publisher's Summary
A stunning and shocking retelling of the Cinderella fairytale from a Carnegie Medal novelist
In an ancient city by the sea, three sisters - a maiden, a mother, and a crone - are drawing maps by candlelight. Sombre, with piercing grey eyes, they are the three Fates, and every map is a human life....
Stepsister takes up where Cinderella's tale ends. We meet Isabelle, the younger of Cinderella's two stepsisters. Ella is considered beautiful; stepsister Isabelle is not. Isabelle is fearless, brave, and strong-willed. She fences better than any boy, and takes her stallion over jumps that grown men fear to attempt. It doesn't matter, though; these qualities are not valued in a girl. Others have determined what is beautiful, and Isabelle does not fit their definition. Isabelle must face down the demons that drove her cruel treatment of Ella, challenge her own fate and maybe even redefine the very notion of beauty.
Cinderella is about a girl who was bullied; Stepsister is about the bully. We all root for the victims, we want to see them triumph. But what about the bullies? Is there hope for them? Can a mean girl change? Can she find her own happily ever after?
In Autumn 2020, Jennifer Donnelly will be giving another classic fairy tale, Snow White, a feminist makeover in her new book Poisoned.
More from the same
What listeners say about Stepsister
Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Katie
- 25-07-2020
What a good story
I enjoyed listening to this. Not my usual style or genre, but I will listen to another story by this author
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Amazon Customer
- 18-10-2019
The Fairy Tale you want to read to your daughters
The best interpretation of Grimm's Wolf I have come across so far. I cried with sympathy and relief and sorrow and truth. Read it - and then tell the tale to your daughters.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Anonymous User
- 29-07-2020
Beautiful!
Donnelly understands fairy tales. She knows the gruesome aspects of the originals and I'm glad she didn't sanitise them. Fairies were dark, wild, sharp, powerful creatures not sweet pretty things. Cinderella's stepsisters mutilated themselves, Snow White's evil queen was made to dance until she died in red hot shoes, etc etc. Lovely book and narrated beautifully!
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Dominica
- 08-01-2020
Highly Recommended
Loved this. The narrator was amazing and the story was brilliant, overall a great listen.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Amazon Customer
- 07-11-2020
absolutely brilliant
I hope this ushers in a new wave of more understanding and stronger girls hooked on classic stories from disney. I love this story underneath the one known so well
20 Best Fantasy Audiobooks
This genre is so full of talent, it can be difficult to know what to listen to next — so look no further than this list to get you started.



20 Best Nonfiction Audiobooks
From the entire history of humanity to astrophysics, to our gut and mental health, dig into this list and learn something new.



Best Australian Podcasts on Audible
Audible Original Podcasts are free for Audible members. Check out this list of home-grown content, from binge-worthy true crime to self-help.


