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This Must Be the Place

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This Must Be the Place

By: Maggie O'Farrell
Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins, Thomas Judd
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This Must Be The Place: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!*

Short-listed for the Costa Novel Award - A Richard and Judy Pick 2017

A reclusive ex-film star living in the wilds of Ireland, Claudette Wells is a woman whose first instinct, when a stranger approaches her home, is to reach for her shotgun. Why is she so fiercely protective of her family, and what made her walk out of her cinematic career when she had the whole world at her feet?

Her husband, Daniel, reeling from a discovery about a woman he last saw 20 years ago, is about to make an exit of his own. It is a journey that will send him off course, far away from the life he and Claudette have made together. Will their love for one another be enough to bring Daniel back home?

*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.

©2016 Maggie O'Farrell (P)2016 Headline Publishing Group Limited, 2018 Booktrack Holding Ltd (background soundtrack only)
Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction

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Very distracting and annoying. Overall story was interesting but I won’t buy with a music track again

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Maggie O'Farrell tells a good story but this is - again - an occasion when I should have read the book rather than listened to it. In particular, I HATED the background music which occurred regularly throughout the recording. I have hearing loss and this was a very unwelcome intrusion into my listening. I would be disinclined to try another Maggie O'Farrell recording now.

A good story badly presented

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Narration was well covered considering the varied characters perspectives & nationalities. The story development was cleverly shaped using these characters. With fluctuation in chapter headings and timeline, one needs to pay attention to the audio. Maggie O'Farrell is a mastermind of family drama.

This author always writes a compelling story

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loved the book. hated the music distracts from story. should be option to mute music

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I loved this novel but hated the generic, repetitive and mostly distracting music. Beautifully performed, so no need for it. Worst moment was when a passage referring to Mongolian Throat Singing was accompanied by elevator-quality guitar strings! Dreadful.

Distracting & Unnecessary Music

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