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The Swimming Pool
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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- Peaches McStabby
- 04-08-16
Good enough
This was a good enough story to keep me entertained on my holiday. At first I was irritated because it read like some kind of cautionary tale for wives and mothers on the perils of daring to occasionally put yourself first or disobey your husband. I found Ed to be a joyless twit and a passive aggressive bully. Natalie is a wet blanket constantly questioning herself and feeling guilty and this is all very frustrating. Also the story was a bit slow sometimes. However I'm glad I kept going because the final chapter was a joy.
The narrator was lovely. She has a lisp which I quite enjoyed. Sometimes her emphasis was a bit wrong but it didn't bother me much.
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- Janet biglari
- 29-07-18
Throughly entertaining and beautifully written
I am fast becoming a devotee of Candlish this is my third of her books and I seem to enjoy each one more. There is a similar premise behind all I have read and that is portrayed in the characters Glimpsing some alternative existence that is both seductive and toxic. I love the way candlish uses buildings and neighbourhoods to create this and the way she populates her books with such exotic and ordinary characters juxtaposed together to play off each other. This book was very clever and the end twist totally unexpected. I also enjoyed the narration which was perfect in tone and intensity. I would easily recommend this book.
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- Gemma Tate
- 09-08-16
Loved it
I Just loved it! A nicely Different take on the genre, the characters were very compelling :) it kept me guessing till the very end.
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- Butterball
- 15-08-18
Terrible narration.
I have had to stop listening to this. The narrator has an awful breathless ‘off’ pronunciation, even of ‘Lido’, a very important word in this story. She can’t pronounce in French, not even Alain Delon, or the word Palazzo, and so on. She hasn’t prepared her reading, so that some sentences she obviously expects to end halfway through and she has to add on the second half when she is taken by surprise. Can anyone do this job or is there an audition? Terrible.
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- Mr. Ron Barkess
- 31-08-16
Brilliant
Read it in two days. Absolutely loved it. A great holiday read. Would highly recomend.
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-08-16
you won't sit beside a pool & feel the same again
excellent from page one. totally refreshing storyline & plot. narration was first class. loved it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-11-20
Interesting story let down by narration
I bought this book having just read, "Those People", by Louise Candlish which I thought was so almost possible to be frightening, and very well written.
I have not quite finshed the Audible version of "The Swimming Pool, but up to chapter 28 now. It has been an unhill struggle so far but I hate to not finish a book, so will persevere to the end. However, I am very disappinted with the narration and therefore also with the direction. The innotation and emphasis and, at sometimes the actual mispronunciation of occasional words, is so very distracting, that I have nearly given up several times. The narration does not flow, the reader stops and starts at inappropriate places, emphasises the wrong part of the sentence or word....... All extremely distracting.
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- Marinka
- 26-09-16
Holiday listen
What did you like most about The Swimming Pool?
I enjoyed this as a holiday listen but I found the ending was a bit longwinded. The rest was good though and well narrated.