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No Place Like Home

By: Caroline Overington
Narrated by: Christopher Quyen
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Shortly after 9.30 in the morning, a young man walks into Surf City, Bondi’s newest shopping complex. He’s wearing a dark grey hoodie - and a bomb around his neck.

Just a few minutes later, he is locked in a shop on the upper floor. And trapped with him are four innocent bystanders.

For police chaplain Paul Doherty, called to the scene by Senior Sergeant Boehm, it’s a story that will end as tragically as it began. For this is clearly no ordinary siege. The boy, known as Ali Khan, seems as frightened as his hostages and has yet to utter a single word.

The seconds tick by for the five in the shop: Mitchell, the talented schoolboy; Mouse, the shop assistant; Kimmi, the nail-bar technician; and Roger Callaghan, the real estate agent whose reason for being in Bondi that day is far from innocent.

And, of course, there’s Ali Khan. Is he the embodiment of evil, as the villagers in his Tanzanian birthplace believe? Or just an innocent boy, betrayed at every turn, who just wants a place to call home?

©2021 Caroline Overington (P)2021 Audible Australia Pty Ltd. Genre Fiction Mystery Police Procedurals Psychological Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt Tear-jerking
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very interesting loved every minute of it i couldn't stop listening to it
great book

fantastic

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Pretty sure I'd have loved this story, the narration was so awful I really had to force myself to keep listening. Awful accents, awful character voices, awful pronunciation just made my ears cry.

The story (which I'd recommend in written word if you are able to enjoy it that way) is really good. It is about how a whole range of prejudices culminate in a very much avoidable disaster. Characters to love, hate and to flip flop from love to hate and back again.

I'd recommend Audible have this revoiced.

What a shame

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This is the first book from this author I’ve listened to. Loved it. It’s compelling how the underlying issues of racism in Australia are raised and presents as being no different to any other white supremacy country… this could have been a story shared from America or England.
Ali’s story is so sad; it leads you too realise that even though initially his intentions seemed sinister, he was just a lost, naive, scared and socially excluded young person. Beautifully written

Well written and gripping story with a sad ending

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I thought this story was well told from the different angles of each of the people caught up in the drama.

I like the way Caroline Overington writes. I find her characters believable and each book is different.

Very interesting angles

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thanks to the Audible Plus library, I discovered Caroline's books a few weeks ago and have been steadily making my way through them all. so far, I have loved every single book and this one is the 5th I've listened to and it didn't disappoint. I highly recommend that you make your way through Caroline's catalogue of work especially while Audible are so kindly offering alot of them to us for free!
I love Caroline's books so much I have even hunted down 'The Ones we trust' online so I can read that one too!

ANOTHER FANTASTIC LISTEN FROM CAROLINE OVERINGTON

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