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What Rosie Found Next

By: Helen J. Rolfe
Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
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One house, two strangers, one very big secret... A shaky upbringing has left Rosie Stevens craving safety and security. She thinks she knows exactly what she needs to make her life complete – the stable job and perfect house-sit she’s just found in Magnolia Creek. The only thing she wants now is for her long-term boyfriend, Adam, to leave his overseas job and come home for good. Owen Harrison is notoriously nomadic, and he roars into town on his Ducati for one reason and one reason only – to search his parents’ house while they’re away to find out what they’ve been hiding from him his entire life. When he meets Rosie, who refuses to quit the house-sit in his parents’ home, sparks fly. Secrets are unearthed, promises are broken, friendships are put to the test and the real risk of bushfires under the hot Australian sun threatens to undo Rosie once and for all. Will Rosie and Owen be able to find what they want or what they really need? Each audiobook in the Magnolia Creek Series can be listened to as a standalone: What Rosie Found Next – Audiobook One, The Chocolatier's Secret – Audiobook Two, The Magnolia Girls - Audiobook Three©2015 Helen J. Rolfe (P)2018 W.F. Howes Ltd Family Life Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Relationships Romance Women's Fiction
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Disliked the narrator with her wrong pronunciations of Australian words. I would have enjoyed it more if the narrator was Australian

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I should have read the previous reviews, mispronunciation of words detracted from the story.

Although much research seemed to have been undertaken by the author it was obvious they had missed nuances of the community and Melbourne in general.

Albury is pronounced awe-brie

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A lovely escapist story and terrific to have an Aussie setting but very disappointing that the reader couldn’t pronounce basic place names correctly. Please have readers familiar with Aussie/local pronunciation. Yahra for Yarra was probably the most excruciating but not even getting Melbourne right?

Charm but…

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Overall I enjoyed the storyline with the background of family secrets. The Australian CFA role was well researched and anecdotally correct with individual responses to emergency situation.
The family mystery was well constructed and remained a draw to the end. The romance was almost secondary to the plot which in my view was where it should have been.
I was disappointed with the narration. The Aussie accent is difficult to portray, even for Australian narrators, but this swung between very good when the reader became relaxed into her performance, to that of a teenager with poor reading skills.

An interesting and well researched story.

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The characters were what kept me reading. The family secrets too, I suppose. The narrator really annoyed me with mispronunciations. It wouldn’t be hard to find out how to say Melbourne (Mel/burn), Albury (All/bury) and many others. The worst was saying Bach like back, especially when the character is supposedly a classical music player. Unbelievable! There were also many words spoken in an English rather than Australian way, such as Ducati, says, ask. It detracted from the book, making it more like a comedy. How on earth can this all make it through to publishing/audio?

Good characters. Terrible narration

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