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Night Train to Lisbon
- By: Pascal Mercier
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance20
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Story20
Raimund Gregorious - Mundus, as his students affectionately call him - is a predictable character. A bookish Latin professor, well-respected but perhaps a little boring. One stormy morning, he encounters a beautiful, distraught Portuguese woman in a red leather coat... Later that day Raimund will realise: that moment changed everything. All of a sudden, nothing in his life feels right. His restlessness is further fuelled when he finds a book by a little-known Portuguese writer, Amadeo de Prado.
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Philosophical and rewarding.
- By Uncle Monty's Cat on 11-04-2024
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Night Train to Lisbon
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 05-03-2009
- Language: English
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The Lucky Galah
- By: Tracy Sorensen
- Narrated by: Danielle Baynes
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance43
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Story43
It's 1969, and a remote coastal town in Western Australia is poised to play a pivotal part in the moon landing. Radar technician Evan Johnson and his colleagues stare at a grainy screen, transfixed, as Armstrong takes that first small step.
I was in my cage, of course, unheard, underestimated, biscuit crumbs on my beak. But fate is a curious thing. For just as Evan's story is about to end, my story prepares to take flight.
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Quirky Ausie Tale
- By Anonymous on 02-07-2019
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The Lucky Galah
- Narrated by: Danielle Baynes
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-03-2018
- Language: English
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Rose Harbor in Bloom
- By: Debbie Macomber
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
Welcome to the Rose Harbor Inn, where every room has an inspiring new view, and every guest finds a second chance...Jo Marie has started to feel at home running the Rose Harbor Inn. Now it’s springtime, and in memory of her late husband, Paul, Jo Marie has designed a beautiful rose garden for the property and enlisted handyman Mark Taylor to help make it happen. Jo Marie and Mark don’t always see eye-to-eye but deep down, she finds great comfort in his company.
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Rose Harbor in Bloom
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Series: Rose Harbor, Book 2
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 07-08-2014
- Language: English
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The Memory of Love
- By: Aminatta Forna
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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Story3
A poignant story about friendship, betrayal, obsession and second chances – this novel is an immensely powerful portrayal of human resilience. Sierra Leone: civil war has left an entire population with terrible secrets to keep. In the capital's hospital Kai, a gifted young surgeon, is plagued by demons. Elsewhere in the hospital lies Elias Cole, a university professor who recalls the love that drove him to acts that are far from heroic. As past and present intersect, Kai and Elias are drawn unwittingly closer and into the path of one woman at the centre of their stories.
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The Memory of Love
- Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
- Length: 20 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 07-09-2011
- Language: English
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Started Early, Took My Dog
- Jackson Brodie 4
- By: Kate Atkinson
- Narrated by: Jason Isaacs
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Abridged
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Overall8
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Performance6
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Story6
A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn't bargained for. One moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn. Witnesses to Tracy's Faustian exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are Tilly, an elderly actress teetering on the brink of her own disaster, and Jackson Brodie, who has returned to his home county in search of someone else's roots.
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Started Early, Took My Dog
- Jackson Brodie 4
- Narrated by: Jason Isaacs
- Series: Jackson Brodie Mysteries (abridged), Book 4
- Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 19-08-2010
- Language: English
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Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill
- (Middle School 4)
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: Bryan Kennedy
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance2
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Story2
Rafe Khatchadorian, the hero of the bestselling Middle School series, is ready for a fun summer at camp – until he finds out it’s a summer school camp! Luckily, Rafe easily makes friends with his troublemaking cabin mates and bunkmate, a boy nicknamed Booger Eater, who puts up with endless...
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Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill
- (Middle School 4)
- Narrated by: Bryan Kennedy
- Series: Middle School, Book 4
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2013
- Language: English
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The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
- By: Martyn Waites
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
Autumn 1940, World War Two: Bombs are raining down, destroying the cities of Britain. The evacuations begin, and soon children are being taken to the country for safety. Teacher Eve Parkins is in charge of one such group. The children are scared and Eve does her best to calm them, but the truth is that she too is haunted by a personal tragedy she cannot put behind her. Their destination is Eel Marsh House. Desolate and forlorn, it is situated on a causeway and is sinking into the treacherous tidal marshes that surround it. Far from home and with no alternative, Eve and the children move in.
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A great sequel.
- By Mandy on 07-02-2018
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The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
- Series: The Woman in Black, Book 2
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 30-01-2014
- Language: English
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Literary Modernism: The Struggle for Modern History
- By: Jeffrey Perl, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Perl
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story3
Professor Perl invites you in these eight lectures to abandon your preconceptions and consider some of the most controversial authors of the 20th century: the Modernists.Who were they? How did "classical" Modernists like Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce differ from "neo-Modernists" like Gertrude Stein and William Carlos Williams? What made them believe and write as they did? Why were political extremism, war, and self-destructive behavior such defining forces in their writing (and their personal demons)? What do they have to say to us today in the 21st century?These lectures place literary Modernism within the wide-ranging context of the philosophy, literature, politics, and morality of its time. In doing so, they allow you to look more clearly at the writers and works who have contributed to the definition of human culture. You'll see Eliot, Joyce, Pound, Yeats, James, Lawrence, and others spring to life with their radical beliefs about art and their unforgettable novels and stories. These lectures do not shrink from the challenges imposed by exploring Modernism, or from challenging the answers that scholars have routinely accepted. Nor do they shy away from the difficulties of literary Modernism itself; a literary genre that intimidates many. But despite all this, these lectures are brilliantly organized, crystal clear, and an invaluable tool for finally wrapping your brain around a dramatic roster of authors and an enduring canon of literature.
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Literary Modernism: The Struggle for Modern History
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Perl
- Series: The Great Courses: English Literature
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 08-07-2013
- Language: English
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Burnt Shadows
- By: Kamila Shamsie
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance23
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Story23
In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders.... August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka takes in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one and in love with the man she is to marry. In a split second, the world turns white.
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Burnt Shadows
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 22-10-2009
- Language: English
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Affliction
- By: Fay Weldon
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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Overall2
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Performance2
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A novel about the perfect pair – or are they? Annette and Spicer make a perfect pair: he thirty-nine, wide-shouldered, square-jawed, and often likened to Harrison Ford; she slight, fair, delicately featured, and sometimes likened to Meryl Streep. He with a son (Jason, eleven) from a previous...
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Affliction
- Narrated by: Patricia Hodge
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 17-06-2011
- Language: English
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Tigerman
- By: Nick Harkaway
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Story9
Lester Ferris needs a rest. He's spent his life being shot at, and Afghanistan was the last stop on his road to exhaustion. Mancreu is the ideal place for Lester to relax. A former British colony, soon to be destroyed because of its very special version of toxic pollution. But Lester Ferris makes a friend: a street kid with a comicbook fixation who will need a home - who might, Lester hopes, become an adopted son. But in a place like Mancreu, just what sort of hero will the boy need?
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Great writing and perfect narration
- By Elizabeth O'Dea on 17-07-2020
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Tigerman
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 22-05-2014
- Language: English
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Snowdrops
- By: A. D. Miller
- Narrated by: Kevin Howarth
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Story4
A riveting psychological drama that unfolds over the course of one Moscow winter, as a thirty-something Englishman’s moral compass is spun by the seductive opportunities revealed to him by a new Russia: a land of hedonism and desperation, corruption and kindness, magical dachas and debauched nightclubs: a place where secrets - and corpses - come to light only when the deep snows start to thaw...
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Snowdrops
- Narrated by: Kevin Howarth
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 14-03-2011
- Language: English
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A Year in the Merde
- By: Stephen Clarke
- Narrated by: Michael Praed
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
Paul West, a young Englishman, arrives in Paris to start a new job and finds out what the French are really like. They do eat a lot of cheese, some of which smells like pigs' droppings. They don't wash their armpits with garlic soap. Going on strike really is the second national participation sport after petanque. And, yes, they do use suppositories.
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A good chuckle and a giggle - lives all the idiosyncratic nuances of the cultures.
- By Anonymous on 05-02-2021
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A Year in the Merde
- Narrated by: Michael Praed
- Series: Paul West, Book 1
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 18-01-2006
- Language: English
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Kitchen
- By: Banana Yoshimoto, Wolfgang E. Schlecht - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Mala Sommer
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Als Mikage ihre Großmutter verliert, ist sie vollkommen allein in der großen Wohnung. Nur in der Küche, wo das Brummen des Kühlschranks sie in den Schlaf wiegt, kommt sie zur Ruhe. Aus ihrer Einsamkeit holt sie Yuichi. Er schlägt ihr vor, zu ihm und seiner Mutter zu ziehen. Es entwickelt sich eine merkwürdige Wohngemeinschaft. Denn Eriko, die wunderschöne "Mutter" Yuichis, hat eine schillernde Vergangenheit.
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Kitchen
- Narrated by: Mala Sommer
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 26-02-2025
- Language: German
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Das späte Leben
- By: Bernhard Schlink
- Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance1
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Martin, sechsundsiebzig, wird von einer ärztlichen Diagnose erschreckt: Ihm bleiben nur noch wenige Monate. Sein Leben und seine Liebe gehören seiner jungen Frau und seinem sechsjährigen Sohn. Was kann er noch für sie tun? Was kann er ihnen geben, was ihnen hinterlassen? Martin möchte alles richtig machen. Doch auch für das späte Leben gilt: Es steckt voller Überraschungen und Herausforderungen, denen er sich stellen muss.
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Das späte Leben
- Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 13-12-2023
- Language: German
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Seventh Heaven
- By: Alice Hoffman
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Story12
Nora Silk doesn't really fit in on Hemlock Street, where every house looks the same. She's divorced. She wears a charm bracelet and high heels and red toreador pants. And the way she raises her kids is a scandal. But as time passes, the neighbors start having second thoughts about Nora. The women's apprehension evolves into admiration. The men's lust evolves into awe. The children are drawn to her in ways they can't explain.
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Not amazing
- By Anonymous on 25-02-2023
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Seventh Heaven
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 26-08-2014
- Language: English
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Other People's Children
- By: Joanna Trollope
- Narrated by: Clare Higgins
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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When a man and a woman get married, things can get complicated. When they have children from previous marriages, "complicated" can become the understatement of the year.
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Other People's Children
- Narrated by: Clare Higgins
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 09-01-2012
- Language: English
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Die Assistentin
- By: Caroline Wahl
- Narrated by: Chantal Busse
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Eine Karriere als Musikerin – das war eigentlich Charlottes größter Wunsch. Aber jetzt ist es ja eh zu spät, und sie muss sich um einen vernünftigen Job kümmern, schon wegen der Eltern. Sie findet eine Stelle in einem Verlag, auch nicht schlecht, und München ist eine schöne Stadt, vor allem im Sommer. Im Vorzimmer des Verlegers sitzt Charlotte ganz nah am Zentrum der Macht. Dass der seine Assistentinnen oft auswechselt, kriegt sie schnell mit.
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Die Assistentin
- Narrated by: Chantal Busse
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 21-11-2025
- Language: German
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The Siege
- By: Helen Dunmore
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Overall4
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Performance1
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Leningrad, September 1941. German tanks surround the city, imprisoning those who live there. The besieged people of Leningrad face shells, starvation, and the Russian winter. Interweaving two love affairs in two generations, The Siege draws us deep into the Levin's family struggle to stay alive during this terrible winter.
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The Siege
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Series: The Siege, Book 1
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 22-07-2010
- Language: English
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Whisper Network
- A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
- By: Chandler Baker
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance83
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A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick 'a primal roar of a novel' - Riley Sager, NYT bestselling author of The Last Time I Lied 'serrated as a kitchen knife, and twice as sharp' - AJ Finn, bestselling author of The Woman In The Window If only you'd listened to us, none of this would...
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An Obvious Ending, a Flat Storyline, but still a feminist triumph.
- By Anonymous on 10-07-2019
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Whisper Network
- A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 25-06-2019
- Language: English
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