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The Sunshine Cruise Company

By: John Niven
Narrated by: Maggie Ollerenshaw
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Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham are turning 60. They live in a small Dorset town and have been friends since school. On the surface Susan has it all - a lovely house and a long marriage to accountant Barry. Life has not been so kind to Julie, but now, with several failed businesses and bad relationships behind her, she has found stability: living in a council flat and working in an old people's home.

Then Susan's world is ripped apart when Barry is found dead in a secret flat - or, rather, a sex dungeon. It turns out Barry has been leading a double life as a swinger. He's run up a fortune in debts, and now the bank is going to take Susan's home.

Until, under the influence of an octogenarian gangster named Nails, the women decide that, rather than let the bank take everything Susan has, they're going to take the bank. With the help of Nails and the thrill-crazy, wheelchair-bound Ethel, they pull off the daring robbery but soon find that getting away with it is not so easy.

The Sunshine Cruise Company is a sharp satire of friendship, ageing, the English middle classes, and the housing bubble from one of Britain's sharpest and funniest writers.

©2015 John Niven (P)2015 Random House AudioBooks (UK) Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Satire Comedy Fiction Witty Crime Suspense Banking
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One of the funniest stories we have listened to on our daily commute. We have a new respect for regularity and utube. 😂 Should be a movie.

The story romps along with the occasional twist. The author carefully plants little insignificant seeds throughout the story that blossom at numerous points in the story and then you laugh even harder.

Magic Ollerenshaw's narration was first class. She has a way of using the pregnant pause that is masterful.

Ripping good yarn

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Loved it! Fantastic story. Kept me laughing till the end! Worth purchasing. I think I'll listen to it again.

Brilliantly funny

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Lots of evil baddies, ordinary people doing wild things. Think of Thelma and Louise . GO OLD GRRRLS!!!!

Great Fun

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Great fun all round. Laugh out loud action, jaw-dropping plot twists and a likable band of ladies determined to escape the poor hand that life has dealt them. John Niven is a skilled author. Love all his work.

Rollicking holiday heist

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