A Place For Us
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A Place For Us
Buy Now for £16.99
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Narrated by:
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Gabrielle Glaister
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By:
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Harriet Evans
About this listen
The house has soft, purple wisteria twining around the door. You step inside. The hall is cool after the hot summer’s day. The welcome is kind, and always warm. Yet something makes you suspect life here can’t be as perfect as it seems. After all, the brightest smile can hide the darkest secret. But wouldn’t you pay any price to have a glorious place like this?
©2013 Harriet Evans (P)2014 W F Howes LtdCritic reviews
slow start and takes ages to link the characters but once you do and the proper story starts it's worth it!
Really glad I stuck with it and have a feeling a second listen will be more enjoyable than the first now the start (well, first 3 hours) has some actual meaning.
Slow start but stick with it and you won't regret
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I loved the fact that this was told through various different characters, i love reading books that are structured that way! It was interesting, as well, to have these characters be different ages and different genders. I really liked hearing from Joe's point of view because he was outside of the Winter family and so it was good to have his perspective on everything that was going on inside of The Winter family.
In terms of plot, this book really does give you everything, there's romance, deceit, a LOT of family secrets, break downs, break ups, death, mystery but overall, the general theme of this book is family and what that means, how it can affect us and how it can be such a positive thing when all is said and done. The fact that this book covers so much meant that, although it was long, there was always something new coming up. The multi-perspective chapter structure also helped this but literally not knowing what was going to be around the next corner in the story really was the best thing about this book.
In terms of setting, we have the family home in rural setting, we have a little bit of Florence, a little bit of Paris and just a touch of London. I really liked this as well and it helped separate out the main characters more (until they all came together in the family home of course!) I would recommend this book if you have got the time to give to it because it is definitely worth sitting down and reading cover to cover on a weekend or a holiday. I also listened to this on audiobook and that was a really good listening experience too!
Deep but entertaining
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a bit long winded
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Where does A Place For Us rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
High up.What other book might you compare A Place For Us to, and why?
May be "girl on a train". secrets and love stories, romance, hope and joy.What does Gabrielle Glaister bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
I enjoyed her interpretation.Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Laugh yesAny additional comments?
I wanted more, sad when it ended, but a great start, middle and end. Really enjoyed it.A long, but lovely story (I like long stories)
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Who was your favorite character and why?
I liked the character of Karen, she was human and not some kind of heroine we are often fedHave you listened to any of Gabrielle Glaister’s other performances? How does this one compare?
First audiobook read by Gabrielle and it was fine, but I was distracted on occasion by 'young Bob' if she was getting a bit excited in the reading (this would probably only distract other Bkackadder viewers though!Any additional comments?
Good modern family saga, believable and well readEntertaining
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