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The Obsession
- Narrated by: Shannon McManus
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
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Summary
The riveting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Liar.
“She stood in the deep, dark woods, breath shallow and cold prickling over her skin despite the hot, heavy air. She took a step back, then two, as the urge to run fell over her.”
Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father’s crimes and made him infamous. No matter how close she gets to happiness, she can’t outrun the sins of Thomas David Bowes.
Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, a rambling old house in need of repair, thousands of miles away from everything she’s ever known. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the kindly residents of Sunrise Cove keep forcing her to open up - especially the determined Xander Keaton.
Naomi can feel her defenses failing, and knows that the connection her new life offers is something she’s always secretly craved. But the sins of her father can become an obsession, and, as she’s learned time and again, her past is never more than a nightmare away.
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"[Narrator Shannon] McManus gives a moving performance of Naomi's struggles to overcome her horrific past in a psychological thriller listeners won't want to miss." (AudioFile)
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- julie
- 05-03-23
Obsession
I absolutely love this book, I have listened to it around 10 times. It’s my go to book and I can’t rate it highly enough
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- Amazon Customer
- 31-03-24
This is become one of my favourite stories of all time!
This book was perfection to me. It had everything I didn’t know I needed from a story. It was so well written and wholesome. The characters were extremely lovable and the narration was absolutely incredible!! Shannon McManus was so fantastic! She really brought these characters and this story to life!
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- Amazon Customer
- 30-08-19
The Obsession
Fantastic story am never disappointed when I start a
Nora Roberts book keep them coming
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- Tony Butterworth
- 15-08-18
Feel-good classic Nora Roberts
Shannon McManus delivers the story with perfection. You know what you’re getting with Nora Roberts: exquisite descriptive writing, a ‘good dog’, strong characterisation and small town America.
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- Donna
- 26-02-23
Brilliant story
I just love these book by Nora Roberts I have only just recently started to read her books, but I’m hooked this is the 4th book I have read in as many days and I have really enjoyed them I’m well and truly hooked
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- Miss M
- 02-08-23
Nora Roberts on form
Nora Roberts’ tomes are undeniably formulaic. When they’re on point, they keep up an absorbing amount of jeopardy related to a nefarious threat to a likeable protagonist who is also endeavouring to build a new life and establish love despite tumult from the past bleeding into the preset. One is, also happily guaranteed a satisfying ending.
The Obsession delivers where some more recent listens have been somewhat flaccid and distinctly lacking in tension.
My personal tastes is for less graphic and really heinous suffering meted out to victims. The crimes described in The Obsession are undeniably grim but the sadistic cruelty isn’t as relentless as in, for example, Come Sundown. It’s nasty stuff but all in all this is a tauter, tighter listen than some, and the better for it.
Recommended as a good Roberts, not as brilliant, as for example, The Witness, but absolutely worth a listen.
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- Carolyn Graham
- 03-01-22
Great Book
Really enjoyed this book would recommend it. Well read great voice for audio books.
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- Jill Kirtley
- 04-06-23
A great read/listen!
Lots of suspense, intrigue and romance, with great characters and a fantastic narrator. I highly recommend!
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- Katie Pyle
- 05-10-17
love Nora Roberts!
I really enjoy Nora Roberts and have since reading her in the Mills and Boon series. the performance was great! I always knew who was being read so characters didn't get muddled.
the story had me on the edge of my seat at times, which I like.
altogether a good listen.
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- Elizabeth McCully
- 25-11-21
Fantastic, exciting and thrilling love story.
What a fantastic experience as Nora Roberts leads you into a harrowing life experience with the main character. I didn’t want this book to end as the characters were all- apart from two- so real and positive. Shannon McManus kept the characters alive and inter active, even Tag the dog! There were many characters in the story and as you follow the trail, cleverly intertwined amongst brilliant, descriptive details, it was easy to forget that there was a killer on the loose. I can’t wait to hear what else Nora Robert’s has written as her style is beautiful and it will be a bonus if Shannon McManus reads for us, too. I highly, highly recommend this book!
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