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Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults
- Narrated by: Joan Walker, Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Anthologies & Short Stories
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Summary
Picked for World Book Night 2020.
The perfect listen to calm your mind in times of stress.
As recommended by RED magazine.
Introduced by Lucy Mangan.
Tales to soothe tired souls. A night time companion for frazzled adults, including calming stories and poems for a good night's sleep.
This cheering book of best loved short tales, extracts and poems will calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep.
A good night's sleep is essential for our well being and our health, but in our busy lives sleep is often poor and overlooked. Now is the time to stop a while and find consolation and wonder in other worlds where all is well and sleep just a page or two away.
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So switch off, snuggle down and allow yourself to escape into new worlds and old; magical, mysterious and tender realms that will accompany you to your own sweet dreams.
Critic reviews
"Hurrah for a book that draws us away from the cold blue light of the smart phone and into the soothing glow of poems, short stories and extracts." (The Simple Things magazine)
"Dreamy." (Stylist)
"Calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep...the most beautiful book that will, without a doubt, put you in the mood for some zzzzzs." (The Sun)
What listeners say about Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults
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- KHaz
- 05-02-19
okay
this is a book to help me relax and as a aid to sleep so i have not heard a full chapter i see this as a good thing
loads of zzzs
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- Meg
- 27-12-18
Performs purpose perfectly
I really enjoy the range of stories included; there are exerts from some of my favourite books. Beautifully and soothingly narrated to really calm the mind. It is just what I was looking for. Only issue is I'm personally not a great poetry lover and find these short bursts a little boring. However, they're often less than a minute so I can't complain too much.
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- Anonymous User
- 13-02-19
Not what I was expecting
The stories are of various lengths and some are a bit too ‘lively’ for bedtime.
I don’t understand why these are stories for stressed out adults because the content does not reflect that at all
5 people found this helpful
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- Mrs B
- 01-07-22
Enjoyed listening.
A really eclectic mix of stories and excerpts, some of them took me right back to bedtime as a child. Bound to be something for every listener.
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- Ellen Thomas
- 16-12-21
Sound mix terrible
Stories are lovely and the narrators are talented but every story goes from so quiet you can't hear it, to so loud it jolts you awake. Found myself constantly changing the volume and losing concentration on both the stories and trying to relax.
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- Kingfisher
- 29-12-18
Not at all sleep inducing
This is more a dramatic reading than it is soothing storytelling. The narrators’ voice changes for new characters and their expressive exclamations with shouts at varying volumes do not make for relaxing listening at all. I found it far more jarring than relaxing.
37 people found this helpful
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- Brandie Pitts
- 24-09-19
Not soothing
Not soothing at all way to much for a bed time book no thank you
10 people found this helpful
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- Greg Relaford
- 05-02-19
Really excellent listening! Perfect bedtime listen
Both the voices and the stories were perfect for us. The female narrator is hypnotic.
7 people found this helpful
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- Helena
- 08-07-21
not for stressed out adults
it sucks to listen to something that doesnt actually help me distress. im stressed
4 people found this helpful
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- Heather Graves
- 03-08-20
boring
boring
it was not my type of book. not a very good read. pass on this
3 people found this helpful
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- Susan P.
- 22-09-21
Love it
This is a fun little audiobook to just forget and relax when the time comes to go to bed. Makes me smile and just drift off to sleep. One of my favorites so far!
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- Frugalnotfrumpy
- 15-09-21
Skip the Intro
This is a good collection of classic stories but the introduction is terrible. It has the opportunity to be good as it starts off talking about how peacefully children sleep but then it talks about all the reasons you can't sleep, which only serves to remind you of why you can't sleep. Skip it and head to the stories themselves and you'll be out before you can say Wikem, Blinkem and Nod.
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- Pamela
- 10-05-21
not the bedtime stories I was expecting.
struggled to get thru chapter 1. the British accent kind of gets in the way.
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- CAM
- 30-05-19
Helps me to unwind.
Need to have more stories. Would love to have another book or suggestion of the same type I could download.
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- Lou Durant
- 30-04-22
Why are you yelling?
The stories are ok, but the delivery is not sleep inducing. The male reader raises his voice so often that itt would jar me awake repeatedly. I had to turn it down so much that I couldn't hear the storyy, almost like white noise, only then was I able to sleep.