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My Phantoms
- Narrated by: Helen McAlpine
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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- Hamble
- 22-07-21
Absolutely loved this book.
My Phantoms is as enjoyable a novel as I have read this year, perceptive, funny, heartbreaking, beautifully written and very well performed here. It is a short book but full of moments that will linger in the memory. As far as literature goes, this is the real stuff. I cannot wait to read more Gwendoline Riley’s work.
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- Kathryn Simmons
- 20-05-21
Absolutely hated this book.
Solely depressing and frustrating. no likeable characters, felt like a complete waste of time. Read Well by narrator, and that's the only positive i can muster!
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- Sarah Billings
- 24-06-22
Short and brutal
One of the most affecting stories I’ve ever listened to.
I’m reader and listener but not a reviewer until now.
Beautifully written and read. Totally devastating.
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- Bee
- 21-02-22
Brilliant but
Best avoid if feeling depressed.
This is not a feel good book.
It is a brilliant description of 'challenging' personalities, family relationships and how fairy tale endings are fairy tales.
The desire to see one's mother happy, or at least content, resonates.
There is love here, I think, for no matter how brittle the relationships between the mother and her daughters they did not quite break.
The father not so much...
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- Caroline
- 12-12-21
Brilliant in its apparent simplicity
This is a short book and at first seems quite straightforward but is actually really sophisticated. The story is narrated by a woman mainly about her dysfunctional realtionship with her mother but it's really clever as it exposes a lot about the narrator herself which isn't expressed explicitly. Brilliant writing. The narration was spot on too. I very rarely listen to books more than once but I will definitely listen to this again.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-03-22
Highly recommended if you like introspective stories
The narration was superb! The nuances in the voice of Hen’s little remarks really made her come alive for me.
The writing is very delicate, paints a vivid picture of entangled family relationships from just a few details. It is subtly heart-wrenching. It’s a great outlet for processing our own relationships with parents.