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The Cuckoo's Cry

By: Caroline Overington
Narrated by: Aimee Horne
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On the eve of the global lockdown, Don Barlow opens the door of his old beachside cottage to find a pretty girl with pink-tipped hair, claiming to have nowhere to go.

He allows her entry, and so begins a mystery set in unprecedented times: with the virus raging outside their home, the girl cannot be asked to leave, but what does he risk by having her stay?

Caroline Overington is a bestselling Australian author and an award-winning journalist. She has written several bestselling audiobooks, including the Looking for Eden, Ghost Child and I Came to Say Goodbye. She has profiled many of the world's most famous women, including Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton, and has twice won the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism. She has also won the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Journalistic Excellence and the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature. Caroline is currently Associate Editor at The Australian and is based in Sydney.

©2020 Caroline Overington (P)2020 Audible Australia Pty Ltd. Domestic Thrillers Thriller & Suspense Exciting
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I thoroughly enjoyed this story. It was well written and well narrated, easy listening with just enough ‘what’s going to happen next’ to keep you listening. And as someone of the same age as the ‘elderly’ man in the story, born around the same time, I was with him all the way!

Heartily recommended.

What a lovely story!

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This was an interesting listen as it covered recent times and Covid 19. Nice pace and I like that one of the main characters was from the older generation. Aimee Horne was good as the narrator.

A story of our time.

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Very enjoyable Australian author I hadn't heard of before. This engaging story reminds me a little of Liane Moriarty's book Apple Never Falls.
Excellent narration.

Very enjoyable.

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The story line was good enough to keep listening but there were too many “He said, She said”

Average

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Just totally hooked me in, and made me stick around. Definitely aided by “Pop” being so like my incredible Grampa, who we lost to covid so recently: he’d have done the same, for family, no questions. Somehow, despite things the characters do making them “bad guys”, you’re still rooting for their happy endings to come through because they’re so well written you can’t help but have sympathy for their journeys. Will definitely be seeking out more from this writer

Brilliant story

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