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In a Good Light

By: Clare Chambers
Narrated by: Imogen Church
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About this listen

Brought to you by Penguin.

From the highly-acclaimed author of Small Pleasures - longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021.

Without even noticing, Esther Fairchild has become locked into routine.

Living with her adored brother, Christian, she divides her time between illustrating children's books, nightly shifts as a waitress, weekly visits to her father and fortnightly meetings with her married lover.

Then one day she encounters a face in the crowd which jolts her out of her mundane existence and makes her question both her life and the past that has helped to shape it. Memories she had long chosen to forget begin to resurface. Memories of an eccentric childhood in a large and shabby house, where the children were left to fend for themselves within the loose boundaries of their parents' unorthodox values. A chaotic existence peopled by a rich collection of feckless 'guests'.

And into this shambolic world came Donovan - regularly deposited by his unreliable mother - and Penny, Christian's girlfriend and Esther's idol. Until tragedy struck and shattered their joint existence. But now, it seems, their lives are about to become intertwined once more....

©2004 Clare Chambers (P)2021 Penguin Audio Contemporary Contemporary Romance Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Romance Heartfelt

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Loved this story. Loved the sarcasm. Found myself laughing out loud at parts and crying at others. Throughout buoyed by the quirky and so loveable characters. Brilliantly read 11/10

Is someone chopping onions?!

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The most annoying narration. People do not talk like that..with all that silly intonation. So irritating and affected. Story would be been enjoyable if read properly.

OMG the narration is so awful.

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. A glimpse of childhood and family life before the advent of the internet & social media; when not everyone even had a colour television.
As ever Imogen Church helped to bring the story & characters to life - one of the best narrators on Audible!

A Lovely Book

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Loved this book. Wonderful characterisation. Subtle twists. Believable. Made me laugh and cry. I will miss them all.

Loved this book.

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I LOVE Chambers so will have read this instead. I simply cannot listen to any more of this reader. Waste of a credit.

Performance so bad I am giving up

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