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A Friend of the Family
- The addictive and emotionally satisfying page-turner that will have you hooked
- By: Lisa Jewell
- Narrated by: Jennifer Saayeng
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall202
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Performance189
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Story190
Brought to you by Penguin Meet the Londons, a family in need of a friend ... Gerry and Bernie London are proud parents of Tony, Sean and Ned, three wayward lads whose lives have suddenly reached crisis points: Newly divorced Tony is fantasizing about someone he really shouldn't; prize-winning...
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Disappointing in every way!
- By Miss JM Collier on 10-12-20
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A Friend of the Family
- The addictive and emotionally satisfying page-turner that will have you hooked
- Narrated by: Jennifer Saayeng
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 03-12-20
- Language: English
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The Great Believers
- By: Rebecca Makkai
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall155
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Performance137
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Story137
In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup: bringing an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDs epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying, and after his friend Nico's funeral, he finds his partner is infected and that he might even have the virus himself. The only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister.
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A pandemic that was easier for many to ignore
- By Karen on 28-02-21
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The Great Believers
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 18-04-19
- Language: English
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Dime Store Magic
- By: Kelley Armstrong
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall78
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Performance57
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Story57
Paige Winterbourne is a witch. Not that you'd notice - no warts, no green skin, no cute little wiggle of the nose whenever she casts a spell. No, most of the time she's just a normal 23-year-old girl; works too hard, worries about her weight, wonders if she'll ever find a boyfriend. Okay, so she does have an adopted teenage daughter, Savannah, who wants to raise her black witch of a mother from the dead. And who is being stalked by a telekinetic half-demon and an all-powerful cabal of sorcerers.
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I'm biased
- By Jj on 11-05-21
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Dime Store Magic
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Series: Otherworld, Book 3
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 07-07-11
- Language: English
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Falling Slowly
- By: Anita Brookner
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance13
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Story13
Beatrice considers herself to be delicate and sensitive, idle and confused. Forced into early retirement, she has an unashamed and romantic desire to be rescued by the ideal man. But Beatrice's only family is her orderly sister, Miriam.
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All Souls
- By Welsh Mafia on 02-11-14
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Falling Slowly
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 12-05-10
- Language: English
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A Week in December
- By: Sebastian Faulks
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall351
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Performance191
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Story193
A Week in December takes place over the course of a single week. It brings together an intriguing cast of characters, each apparently in his or her own world but - as gradually becomes clear - intricately related. As the story builds to its climax, Faulks pulls together powerful ideas about family, money, religion and the way we live today.
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Really gripping story
- By Paul Taylor on 19-02-10
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A Week in December
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 10-02-10
- Language: English
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Rain
- By: Barney Campbell
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance44
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Story44
ONE OF THE EVENING STANDARD'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Barney Campbell's Rain is a searingly powerful début that reads like a British Matterhorn ******** Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Rain by Barney Campbell, read by Mark Meadows. 'Corporal Thomas (my acting...
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Pretty real
- By Charlie Suku on 02-10-19
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Rain
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 30-07-15
- Language: English
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Circling the Sun
- By: Paula McLain
- Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall75
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Performance71
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Story70
The New York Times bestseller As a young girl, Beryl Markham was brought to Kenya from Britain by parents dreaming of a new life. For her mother, the dream quickly turned sour, and she returned home; Beryl was brought up by her father, who switched between indulgence and heavy-handed authority...
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Fascinating story, narration almost unbearable!
- By Penny on 23-10-15
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Circling the Sun
- Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 28-07-15
- Language: English
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Monkey Grip
- By: Helen Garner
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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Story14
Inner-suburban Melbourne in the 1970s: a world of communal living, drugs, music and love - Garner captures the fluid relationships of a community of friends. Helen Garner’s gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded as a masterpiece - the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature: communal households, music, friendships, children, love, drugs and sex.
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Best author narration I’ve heard
- By Anonymous on 26-06-21
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Monkey Grip
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 01-01-20
- Language: English
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From a Low and Quiet Sea
- Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018
- By: Donal Ryan
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan, Gerry O'Brien, Ramon Tikaram
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall200
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Performance173
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Story173
Random House presents the audiobook edition of From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan, read by Stephen Hogan, Gerry O'Brien and Ramon Tikaram. Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John’s past torments him as he nears his end. The refugee...
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Strong and Poetic
- By Hugh M. Clarke on 14-05-18
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From a Low and Quiet Sea
- Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan, Gerry O'Brien, Ramon Tikaram
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 22-03-18
- Language: English
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The Gallows Pole
- By: Benjamin Myers
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall281
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Performance251
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Story250
From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners, and their business is clipping - the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death.
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The gruesome tale of the Cragg Vale Coiners
- By papapownall on 08-07-19
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The Gallows Pole
- Narrated by: Malk Williams
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 05-02-19
- Language: English
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A Treacherous Paradise
- By: Henning Mankell, Laurie Thompson - translator
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance32
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Story33
A Treacherous Paradise sees Henning Mankell turn his talents for writing gripping thrillers to a world where power and powerlessness meet and passion is a dangerous commodity. Hanna Lundmark escapes the brutal poverty of rural Sweden for a job as a cook onboard a steamship headed for Australia...
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Mankell loses his touch
- By D. Cottam on 22-05-15
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A Treacherous Paradise
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 06-06-13
- Language: English
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Prestige Drama
- By: Seamas O'Reilly
- Narrated by: Charlie Bonner, Charlie Kelly, Diona Doherty, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Story13
'BRILLIANT . . . GLORIOUSLY VIVID' GUARDIAN 'DISARMINGLY HILARIOUS' SUNDAY TIMES 'ROLLICKING . . . CAUSTIC, WITHERING AND GENUINELY FUNNY' INDEPENDENT 'FUNNY AND TRAGIC' TLS 'SUCH AN ENTERTAINING READ' DAILY MAIL 'BOISTEROUS' NEW YORK TIMES 'A COMEDY ABOUT TRAGEDY. BRUTAL, PROFOUND AND VERY...
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Cracker
- By Jac on 01-06-26
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Prestige Drama
- Narrated by: Charlie Bonner, Charlie Kelly, Diona Doherty, Eleanor Methven, Frankie McCafferty, Ian McElhinney, Jamie Beamish, Kate Handford, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Melanie McHugh, Niall Wright, Seamas O'Reilly
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 07-05-26
- Language: English
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Remember Me?
- By: Sophie Kinsella
- Narrated by: Sally Phillips
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Abridged
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Overall297
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Performance233
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Story231
Brought to you by Penguin. The hilarious romantic comedy from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie Kinsella Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking she's twenty-five with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually three years...
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Loads of the book is missing!!
- By Tracey on 24-05-21
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Remember Me?
- Narrated by: Sally Phillips
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 07-01-08
- Language: English
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Echo Boy
- By: Matt Haig
- Narrated by: Jane Collingwood, Thomas Judd, Various, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall192
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Performance178
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Story177
In order to stay human, Audrey has built a moat around herself; a moat of books, music, and dreams. It makes her different from the echoes: the sophisticated, emotionless machines, built to resemble and work for the humans. Daniel is an echo - but he's not like the others. He has feelings he was never designed to have, and cannot explain. And when Audrey is placed in danger, he's determined to save her.
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This could be our future.
- By Kaggy on 27-10-14
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Echo Boy
- Narrated by: Jane Collingwood, Thomas Judd, Various, Antonia Beamish
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 24-04-14
- Language: English
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Milkman
- By: Anna Burns
- Narrated by: Bríd Brennan
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,280
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Performance3,786
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Story3,770
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle, and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes 'interesting'. The last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed and to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is the story of inaction with enormous consequences.
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Very, Very Good
- By David M on 20-10-18
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Milkman
- Narrated by: Bríd Brennan
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 13-06-18
- Language: English
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Orange Blossom Days
- Warmth, wisdom and love on every page - if you treasured Maeve Binchy, read Patricia Scanlan
- By: Patricia Scanlan
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall119
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Performance110
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Story109
*** THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER *** In a beautiful southern Spanish town, where the sea sparkles and orange blossoms scent the air, the gates of a brand new apartment complex, La Joya de Andalucía, glide open to welcome the new owners. Anna and Austen MacDonald, an Irish couple, are preparing to...
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a long story that didn't really go anywhere
- By Kez on 26-04-17
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Orange Blossom Days
- Warmth, wisdom and love on every page - if you treasured Maeve Binchy, read Patricia Scanlan
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 09-03-17
- Language: English
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An Equal Music
- By: Vikram Seth
- Narrated by: Alan Bates
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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Overall69
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Performance59
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Story56
Michael is a violinist from Rochdale. He plays in a trio in Vienna with Julia, a pianist, and they are much taken with each other. But the trio splits up and they go their separate ways. One day in London, from the top of a double-decker bus, Michael catches a glimpse of Julia. They eventually meet up, and she tells him that she is contentedly married and has a child. Michael persuades her to visit Vienna and Venice with him. He discovers that Julia has become deaf, though her deafness comes and goes.
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interesting story excellent listen
- By anna on 08-09-11
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An Equal Music
- Narrated by: Alan Bates
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 24-03-11
- Language: English
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Teacher, Teacher!
- By: Jack Sheffield
- Narrated by: Jack Sheffield
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance73
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Story74
It's 1977 and Jack Sheffield is appointed headmaster of a small village primary school in North Yorkshire. So begins Jack's eventful journey through the school year and his attempts to overcome the many problems that face him as a young and inexperienced headmaster. The many colourful chapters...
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Dull dull dull
- By Colin on 13-02-16
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Teacher, Teacher!
- Narrated by: Jack Sheffield
- Series: Teacher, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-02-13
- Language: English
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Overheard in a Dream
- A Novel
- By: Torey Hayden
- Narrated by: Jean Alexander
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance17
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Story17
Bestselling author Torey Hayden's novel is a fascinating study of a fractured family, a troubled child, and a psychiatrist's attempts to rescue them. Conor, aged nine, arrives in the play therapy room of child psychiatrist James Innes with the diagnosis "autistic". His mother Laura, an aloof, enigmatic novelist, can't handle him. His rancher father, embroiled in divorcing Laura, does not feel there is anything wrong with Conor. His six-year-old sister Morgana insists he really does see ghosts.
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Enjoyed it from the second half onward
- By Paige on 17-06-22
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Overheard in a Dream
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jean Alexander
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 04-12-13
- Language: English
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