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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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Thought provoking & sad story, the narrator slightly irritating at times but worth listening to.
Would recommend.

Another great Caroline Overington novel

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I would never normally leave a negative review but is there anyway they could redo it with someone else doing the other accents? As a Scottish native I’ve never heard a Scottish accent like it in my life and I’ve watched the Simpsons. The story is really well crafted and it deals with some really harrowing issues with quiet respect but jings the accents …

Good story but the accents 😳

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A good story, but a bit long winded. I’m also not entirely sure about the hostage situation - it seems to me that he was making no demands, no threats and he was in actual fact being held against his will along with the others…? Maybe I missed something?

Not as good as some of her other books

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I have enjoyed a great number of Caroline Overington’s novels not least the wonderful Aussie accents of the readers … but this one? For some reason the narrator, Chris Quyen, in the persona of an Australian priest with an Irish name sounds like a poorly educated Brit who cannot pronounce ‘th’ except as a ‘v’ or an ‘f’ and then speaks in what I believe is supposed to be a Scots accent for one character that morphs into Indian and back. Why?

The grating narration, and liberal examples of poor emphasis on the wrong word in a number of phrases, really spoils what should otherwise be a great novel … If I see the name Christopher Quyen as a reader elsewhere I will definitely avoid the book.

Why on Earf?

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There's a social conscience around immigration/ asylum and that integration system etc and it is thoroughly l described here. it's interesting and informative but it drags on so long that it takes away from the main story. it's so drawn out, i got a bit bored and lost interest. in the end i felt that the final "twist" wasn't really worth the wait.

Social commentary takes away from the story

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