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The Music Shop

By: Rachel Joyce
Narrated by: Steven Hartley
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From the author of the worldwide best seller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel about learning how to listen and how to feel and about second chances and choosing to be brave despite the odds. Because in the end, music can save us all....

It's 1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk - as long as it's vinyl, he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his customers the music they need. Then into his life walks Ilse Brauchmann.

Ilse asks Frank to teach her about music. His instinct is to turn and run. And yet he is drawn to this strangely still, mysterious woman, with her pea-green coat and her eyes as black as vinyl. But Ilse is not what she seems. And Frank has old wounds that threaten to reopen and a past he will never leave behind....

©2017 Rachel Joyce (P)2017 Random House Audiobooks Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Feel-Good Heartfelt

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loved it from the first few minutes. beautiful characters, emotional plot lines and music. what more could you want?

emotional

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I got this book without much thinking as I am a music lover and generally enjoy reading about it and listening to it. But never have I imagined anything like this! With every piece of music mentioned I tried to recover the feelings it brought up for me and compared them to the author's narrative, many times it brought a smile on my face , sometimes sadness, always leaving me wanting to listen to it again.
The characters are so well drawn I felt I know them all by the end and could talk to them about my favourites. Story is so simple yet with so deeply described feelings of loneliness, abandonment, uncertainty and loss battling with hope, love, longing and happiness.
Wonderful to listen to the narrator's deep voice and humming here and there, I thoroughly enjoyed this audiobook and will be coming back to it for times to come!

For all music lovers and good story lovers

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It is tempting to think this is a conventional love story but it is more than that. Imaginative & unexpected plot twists plus interesting protagonists. Might have benefited by further editing to shorten some of the chapters. If I were being pedantic I would say the narrator mispronounces some words and mixes up different accents - but he does convey the warmth and humanity of the author’s view, and is able to convey the different genders, ethnicities and quirks of the main characters. Recommended.

Unexpected & entertaining

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Characters that will live with you long after you’ve finished reading. Brilliantly narrated. A must.

Exquisitely written

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I enjoyed it very much . I will read another book of Rachel Joyce.
Good narrator.

Transported me to my teenage years in record shop

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