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The Long Weekend

By: Fiona Palmer
Narrated by: Olivia Beardsley
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Four perfect strangers. Three days. Can one weekend away change your life?

The gripping drama by one of Australia's most beloved storytellers.

Coming together for a writing workshop with bestselling author Jan Goldstein, four strangers converge upon a luxury forest retreat. But along with their notepads and laptops, each of the participants has brought some emotional baggage.

Beth is a solo parent and busy career woman haunted by a tragic car accident. Simone, the youngest at 26, is a successful Instagram star but she's hiding behind a façade. Jamie is the only man. He's a handsome personal trainer - but he looks out of place with a pen in his hand. Finally, Alice is a wife and mum recovering from post-natal depression. She and Jamie soon realise they are not such perfect strangers after all.

Only one thing is for sure: on this creative getaway, nothing will go according to script.

©2022 Fiona Palmer (P)2022 Hachette Australia Pty Ltd Contemporary Contemporary Romance World Literature Romance

Critic Reviews

"The Long Weekend delivers to readers the perfect chance to escape from their own lives, if just for a few hours. Readers can expect a raft of revelations around postnatal depression, secret affairs, hidden identities, parental neglect and untold truths, with a few steamy sex scenes." (Books+Publishing)

"Delves deep into themes of secret affairs, hidden identities, parental neglect and untold truths." (Who Weekly)

"Fiona Palmer is a writer who demonstrates great facility for storytelling, for swiftly moving a plot along. She writes relatable characters. I have no doubt that The Long Weekend will be another bestseller." (Living Arts Canberra)
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I feel like I would have enjoyed this story a lot more, if someone like Casey Withoos was narrating, with a lot more empathy

A good premise, with interesting, gentle development, nonetheless

Not really a huge plot, more like a gentle walk in the park

Stick with it, despite the narration

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Narrator is very stilted and is hard to listen to, but the story was great and that kept me going.

Great story - annoying narrator

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This narrator is terrible. I nearly didn’t listen to this book because the narration is so bad. I try and avoid her at all times but missed she was narrating this book

Terrible narration

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Unfortunately the narration was very robotic. There were good natural narration in small snippets.

However the story was brilliant and I loved it.

Good story but hard listening

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I intensly disliked the enunciation of the narrator . Nobody. talks. like. this, one. single. word. at. a. time. For me, it completely spoiled the flow of the narrative. I will never buy an Audible book with this person narrating.

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