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Sushi for Beginners

By: Marian Keyes
Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
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About this listen

 Lisa Edwards, top London magazine editor, has been fantasizing about promotion to New York. Instead, she's asked to launch a new women's magazine in Dublin. She thinks nothing could be worse - until she meets her new staff. They're friendly, helpful, and enthusiastic - in other words, they wouldn't last two minutes in London!

As Lisa struggles to find her feet in this alien world of no back-stabbing or bitchiness, her neurotic assistant, Ashling, is also in trouble. She's just too nice for journalism, and it shows. Who better to help them both than their handsome-but-hassled boss, Jack Devine? Always allowing for the fact that his moodiness could give Heathcliff a run for his money, of course.

©2000 Marian Keyes (P)2004 W.F Howes Ltd Contemporary Family Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Women's Fiction Funny Feel-Good

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Next time there is a book with mainly Irish characters it would be a good idea to have a narrator who can do an Irish accent!

Good story terrible narration

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I’m sure the story is enjoyable but I can no longer listen to the “Irish” accents. The female characters sound male, a mix of pirates and Scottish farmers?! Extremely off putting!

Terrible “Irish” accents are off putting

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Wonderful book, terrible narration -
a lot of the humour doesn't come across as it should. Marian Keyes deserves better!

Dodgy narration

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Anyone that has read Marian Keyes will love this book.

What other book might you compare Sushi for Beginners to, and why?

Nothing springs to mind, only other Keyes novels based on her passion for Ireland.

Which character – as performed by Juanita McMahon – was your favourite?

It has to be Ashling, who doesn't love an underdog

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

It has to be Boo, his passion for reading, introducing Ashling to his friends, the opportunity given too him. I'd love to read a book read from Boo's outlook at life on the streets

It's Marian it's great

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To be honest I gave up halfway through. I didn’t connect to any of the characters and the story was really slow

Slow and didn’t seem to go anywhere

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