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Crossing Over
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Summary
Edie is struggling. She’s increasingly confused, but she can’t let the women in the village find that out - they’d only talk. But she’s forgetting so much - forgetting to wear matching clothes, forgetting to bake one of her walnut cakes for the WI sale...and forgetting to lock the door...until one day she wakes to find Jonah in her house and herself in her past.
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About the audiobook:
Ann Morgan has written an affecting and absorbing tale of an elderly woman losing herself to dementia and an illegal immigrant suffering from PTSD who has found England is not the utopia he was promised. The relationship between the two is touching yet mutually suspicious and uneasy; both are scared, moreover, of the outside world - Edie is worried she’ll be put in a home, and Jonah is worried he will be deported. Neither can cope on their own - but can they rely on each other when they can’t trust anyone else?
About the author:
Ann Morgan’s writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Independent, the Financial Times and the New Internationalist. Her first book, Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer (Harvill Secker/WW Norton), was published following the success of her project to read a book from every country throughout 2012. Her best-selling debut novel, Beside Myself (Bloomsbury), was released to great acclaim in 2016.
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- Sigrin
- 28-05-19
Unlikely friendship
This is the time when I write a review that is different to the general consensus. I disagree with a lot of the negative comments and would recommend this book.
I greatly enjoyed the story and thought it was written with passion and understanding, it is an unlikely friendship and some of the early part of the story had me laughing out loud. As the book progressed there were some equally sad moments that made your heart sink and sadness wash over you.
I loved the way Jonah often did not understand English people with his African upbringing and values, he was desperately trying to understand the meaning of what people say and their actions. His sense of family community and looking after the elders was touching and real, a trait that is often sadly lacking nowaday.
No spoilers but when Edie was in hospital and he described the scene on the ward with the nurses and doctors attending her, Jonah felt that no one truly cared about Edie as they were all wrapped up with their own lives, I found this quite haunting but could empathise with his views.
Jonahs story was very sad and the desperation of these refugees for a better future anywhere rather than where they are is described very well.
Edies story is equally well told, despite the reviews to the contrary.
I am a fan of Adjoa Andoh, but I felt it was not her best performance.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I have.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-05-19
fantastic
not my usual genre but a fantastic story well written and brilliantly read enthralling five-star
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- Elizabeth
- 17-05-19
absolutely fabulous
maybe it's my age , but uncanny dialogue from.a different age performed brilliantly and such a brilliantly written story of the feelings related to hardships wherever we go. much recommended .
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- francesca conradie
- 01-07-19
Great book
I have just finished this book. Crossing Over. It was remarkable. I never read a book before that was in part in the voice of someone with dementia. Very powerful and well constructed. In addition, it is difficult to write in an African voice as the tone can easily become paternalistic and condescending. Ann Morgan nailed it. I felt enormous compassion for Jonah and felt your description of his journey was so insightful. She is a a really excellent author and I cannot wait for her next book.
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- Mrs B
- 19-05-19
Jonah from Malawi
I struggled with the middle part of this book. I was committed to finishing it because of Jonah's storyline/plot and the impact of climate change , livelihood and poverty. Eti's story for me felt like a framework we were being given to tell Jonah's story. It was too much for me to have such strong characters and as such felt like Eti's story fell flat. Andoa Anjoh is a brilliant narratar. She didn't get the Chewa accent as Jonah at times sounded Nigerian and in some.parts Zimbabwean but she was good at bringing his character to life
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-05-19
Unsettling
I found this a strange little book. Uncomfortable listening at times. It deals with some difficult issues and all of the characters are flawed in their own way. It left me feeling very sad - inevitable I guess and it doesn’t make it a bad book, but overall I tend to prefer something a bit more uplifting!
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- juozas kasiulis
- 10-01-22
Two stories in one book
It was a rather interesting listen. Particularly that it contains story about old age and memory loss plus a story about immigration. Main characters were very well made and narrator done amazing job.
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- Georgia
- 04-08-21
Not for me
A story about an illegal immigrant from Africa crossing paths whilst in England with an elderly white woman with advanced Alzheimer's. Yes, what an unusual premise. It wasn't the book I was expecting and found it very heavy going. The narrator, Adjoa Andoh, was very good, especially with the African voices, but I found her presentation of the woman very brash. It was certainly thought provoking about the two issues of illegal immigration and Alzheimer's, but was presented in a way that didn't quite work for me. The way events unfolded seemed very unlikely.
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-03-21
Thoughtful and Moving
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this book. An unusual story which offers great insight into two lives so different but so closely aligned. The narration was superb - I think the best I have experienced - and it is hard to believe it was only one person!
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- A. Smith
- 20-08-20
Started well then floundered
The audible performance was excellent, and was really the only reason I kept with this until the end. The story had a lot of promise, and at its core was a really good premise for a book, however the plot lost its way, was disjointed to the point where you almost had to fill in the gaps yourself and neither character was in the end likeable. I appreciate what the author was trying to do, but it should’ve been more than it was.