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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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I listened to this as it was free with membership, but unlike many of the free offerings, I was gripped. It was well written, though a very sad story. Yes, the narrator did make a pigs ear of the Scottish accent, but really, it was not a long section and the story was too good for this to spoil it. I thought he performed the rest of it quite well.

A harrowing well written story.

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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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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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I’ve listened to several of Caroline’s books and really enjoy her writing style.
Why on Earth audible changed the narrator for this one I have no idea but it absolutely destroyed it. Appalling accents, wooden delivery and utterly amateur. Crying shame.

Another great book by this author spoiled by painful narration

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It's an interesting and engaging story and at times thought-provoking over the plight of refugees. However, two things about the recording spoiled my overall enjoyment. I found it very irritating that dialogue between two characters had 'he said' "she said' after every interchange or if it was two people of the same gender 'x said' 'said'. The narrator was differentiating between character by the tone of his voice . Secondly there are lots of simulated phone calls with the caller barely intelligible and simulated tannoy announcements that are also difficult to hear. Subsequent to this novel I started to listen to the author's The Cuckoo's Cry but it's also full of 'he said' 'she' said' and simulated phone calls so annoying that I've given up.
The narrator is excllent.

Good story but some of the writing is irritating

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