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Herzog
- By: Saul Bellow
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance83
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Winner of the National Book Award when it was first published in 1964, Herzog traces five days in the life of a failed academic whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through the device of letter writing, Herzog movingly portrays both the internal life of its eponymous hero and the complexity of modern consciousness.
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Two Stars!?!?!?!
- By S. Wragg on 05-04-11
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Herzog
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 02-12-09
- Language: English
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Ruhm
- Ein Roman in neun Geschichten
- By: Daniel Kehlmann
- Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Ein Schriftsteller mit der unheilvollen Neigung, Menschen, die ihm nahestehen, zu Literatur zu machen, ein verwirrter Internetblogger, ein Abteilungsleiter mit Doppelleben, ein berühmter Schauspieler, der lieber unbekannt wäre, eine alte Dame auf der Reise in den Tod: Ihre Wege kreuzen sich in einem Geflecht von Episoden zwischen Wirklichkeit und Schein.
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Ruhm
- Ein Roman in neun Geschichten
- Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen
- Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 21-11-25
- Language: German
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- By: Karen Joy Fowler
- Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Overall69
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Performance60
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Story60
Rosemary doesn't talk much and about certain things she's silent. She had a sister, Fern, her whirlwind other half, who vanished from her life in circumstances she wishes she could forget. And it's been 10 years since she last saw her beloved older brother, Lowell. Now at college, Rosemary starts to see she can't go forward without going back to the time when aged five, she was sent away from home to her grandparents and returned to find Fern gone.
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Not my cup of tea
- By Timothy Burge on 25-09-25
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
- Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 06-01-22
- Language: English
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Wedding Season
- The perfect escapist romance for summer from the bestselling author of feel-good fiction
- By: Katie Fforde
- Narrated by: Jan Cramer
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance30
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Brought to you by Penguin. Sarah Stratford is a wedding planner hiding a rather inconvenient truth - she doesn't believe in love. Or not for herself, anyway. But as the confetti flutters away on the June breeze of yet another successful wedding she somehow finds herself agreeing to organise two...
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Enjoyable story beautifully brought to life
- By Amazon Customer on 09-03-21
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Wedding Season
- The perfect escapist romance for summer from the bestselling author of feel-good fiction
- Narrated by: Jan Cramer
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 30-07-20
- Language: English
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The Legend Of Bagger Vance
- By: Steven Pressfield
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance17
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Story17
In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game - Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen - meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six hole showdown. They are joined by another player, a troubled war hero called Rannulph Junah. But the key to...
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Entertaining, impressive, a touch pretentious.
- By Lee on 08-03-25
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The Legend Of Bagger Vance
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 30-05-13
- Language: English
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The Children's House of Belsen
- By: Hetty E. Verolme
- Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall162
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Performance145
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Story145
Hetty’s family was torn apart following the German invasion of the Netherlands. Rounded up by the Nazis and then separated from their parents, Hetty and her brothers were sent to the Children’s House, within Belsen concentration camp. As one of the eldest, Hetty became the ‘Little Mother’, helping to care for not only her siblings, but the other children as well.In a direct and powerful style, Hetty recalls one of the remarkable, largely untold stories of the Holocaust – the extraordinary struggle and survival of this group of children through those terrible years.
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Heart-breaking!
- By Ian on 26-08-16
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The Children's House of Belsen
- Narrated by: Deidre Rubenstein
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 27-06-11
- Language: English
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Beastings
- By: Benjamin Myers
- Narrated by: Ralph Ineson
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance35
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Story35
Bloomsbury presents Beastings by Benjamin Myers, read by Ralph Ineson. Winner of the Portico Prize for Literature and the Northern Writers’ Award ‘A brilliant, brutal novel’ ROBERT MACFARLANE A girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. A savage pursuit through the landscape of a changing...
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Terrible narration - OK story
- By J Salisbury on 28-04-22
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Beastings
- Narrated by: Ralph Ineson
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 23-01-20
- Language: English
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Tyler's Row
- By: Miss Miss Read
- Narrated by: Gwen Watford
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall83
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Performance74
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Story74
The two-hundred-year-old cottages known as Tyler’s Row, with charming leaded-glass windows and an arched thorn hedge over the gateway, are supposed to provide a haven of peace for their new owners, Peter and Diana Hale.
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Great book
- By Secondferret on 18-10-20
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Tyler's Row
- Narrated by: Gwen Watford
- Series: Fairacre, Book 9
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 09-01-12
- Language: English
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Peaches for Monsieur le Curé
- Chocolat, Book 3
- By: Joanne Harris
- Narrated by: Rula Lenska, Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall329
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Performance251
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Story251
It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the village in south-west France where, eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop.
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The Wrong Choice of Narrator
- By Kate Voss on 23-08-15
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Peaches for Monsieur le Curé
- Chocolat, Book 3
- Narrated by: Rula Lenska, Gareth Armstrong
- Series: Chocolat, Book 3
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 24-05-12
- Language: English
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Nature Girl
- By: Carl Hiaasen
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall59
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Performance40
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Story40
Honey Santana is determined to set up her own tour business, paddling tourists around the Florida Everglades in ocean kayaks. The result is a kayaking trip from hell, and an unplanned overnight stay on Dismal Key, one of the Everglades' islands.
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Hilarious
- By Chris on 17-03-11
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Nature Girl
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 11-07-07
- Language: English
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The Italian Matchmaker
- By: Santa Montefiore
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall270
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Performance241
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Story240
Gianluca's life is empty. His City job, his seven-figure income, his glossy girlfriends - all have long ceased to satisfy him. His marriage is over, and he barely knows his young daughters. In search of serenity and a deeper purpose, he flees to Italy. But life on the sun-drenched Amalfi coast is not as peaceful as Luca anticipates.
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gripping & very atmospheric
- By Marianna on 13-04-13
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The Italian Matchmaker
- Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-12-09
- Language: English
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Dr Finlay
- The Complete BBC Radio Collection
- By: A. J. Cronin
- Narrated by: David Tennant, John Gordon Sinclair, Celia Imrie, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall75
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Performance66
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Ready with his black bag, Dr Finlay sets out to remedy all manner of ailments suffered by his patients in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford. In this complete BBC Radio collection, we meet the surprising Dr Finlay as he is welcomed to the practise with a black eye. Over the course of these series the early years of Dr Finlay are explored, as he gets to grips with the locals in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford.
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Brilliant
- By Somebodyelse on 05-08-20
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Dr Finlay
- The Complete BBC Radio Collection
- Narrated by: David Tennant, John Gordon Sinclair, Celia Imrie, full cast
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 19-12-19
- Language: English
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I Capture the Castle
- A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- By: Dodie Smith
- Narrated by: Holliday Grainger, Toby Jones
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance50
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Toby Jones and Holliday Grainger star in a new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dodie Smith's enduringly popular coming-of-age novel In the 1930s, seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain lives in a crumbling ruin of a castle in the Suffolk countryside. Her father, an author wrestling with...
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A great dramatisation of a quirky story.
- By Lucy Mars on 05-11-21
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I Capture the Castle
- A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- Narrated by: Holliday Grainger, Toby Jones
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Release date: 03-03-16
- Language: English
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Burnt Island
- The Isles of Scilly Mysteries: 3
- By: Kate Rhodes
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall353
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Performance322
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THE ISLES OF SCILLY MYSTERIES #3 The third instalment in a gripping and atmospheric crime series set on a small island where there is no escape . . . ‘Gripping, clever and impossible to put down' Erin Kelly INTRUDERS HERE ARE BOUND TO DIE . . . As the sun sets on a cold November evening, the...
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Starting to get just a little repetitive.
- By Kate Holmes on 02-12-19
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Burnt Island
- The Isles of Scilly Mysteries: 3
- Narrated by: Stephen Perring
- Series: The Isles of Scilly Mysteries, Book 3
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 28-11-19
- Language: English
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Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools
- By: Victoria Twead
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall253
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Performance235
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If Joe and Vicky had known what relocating to a tiny mountain village in Andalucía would really be like, they might have hesitated. They can have no idea of the culture shock in store for them...no idea they'll become reluctant chicken farmers and own the most dangerous cockerel in Spain...no idea they'll help capture a vulture and be rescued by a mule. Will they stay, or will they return to the relative sanity of England?
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FANTASTIC!!
- By Anonymous on 02-03-23
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Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Series: Old Fools, Book 1
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 21-06-18
- Language: English
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Tell Me Your Secret
- the gripping page-turner from the 'Queen of the Big Reveal'
- By: Dorothy Koomson
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Heather Long, Jennifer Saayeng, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall262
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Performance232
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The new emotional thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls, My Best Friend's Girl and The Brighton Mermaid. Dorothy Koomson, 'Queen of the big reveal', is back with a gripping page-turner full of twists and turns. Pieta has a secret. Ten years ago, Pieta was...
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ANOTHER DYNAMITE KOOMSON THRILLER
- By PODENCOS ROCK! on 21-08-19
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Tell Me Your Secret
- the gripping page-turner from the 'Queen of the Big Reveal'
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh, Heather Long, Jennifer Saayeng, Kristin Atherton
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 27-06-19
- Language: English
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Holding the Man
- By: Timothy Conigrave
- Narrated by: Stephen Phillips
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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Overall151
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Performance134
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The mid-'70s: at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. So begins a relationship that weathers disapproval, separation and ultimately death. With honesty and insight, Holding the Man explores the highs and lows of any partnership and the strength of heart both men have to find when they test positive for HIV. This is a book as refreshing and uplifting as it is moving - a funny and sad and celebratory account of growing up gay.
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Have the tissues at the ready
- By Andy Hall on 04-11-19
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Holding the Man
- Narrated by: Stephen Phillips
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 31-05-16
- Language: English
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Can't Help but Love You
- By: Tay Mo'nae
- Narrated by: Elena Campbell, Winston James
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Aisha owns her own printing company, creating custom shirts, mugs, and other things. She's guarded and has a hard time allowing men to get close to her on a serious level. One heartbreak was enough for her. She eventually learns the only one who can heal that hurt she felt years ago is the same guy who caused it. But is that possible knowing the secret she's holding onto?
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Very realistic and intense
- By diane on 27-04-25
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Can't Help but Love You
- Narrated by: Elena Campbell, Winston James
- Series: Want You
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 18-04-23
- Language: English
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The Secrets Between Us
- The gripping and unforgettable historical fiction book from the top 10 bestseller
- By: Louise Douglas
- Narrated by: Jenny Funnell
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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Overall77
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A Richard and Judy recommendation for the 2012 Summer Book Club, this is a brilliant Gothic novel in the vein of Daphne du Maurier. A chance encounter: When Sarah meets dark, brooding Alex, she grasps his offer of a new life miles away from her own. They've both recently escaped broken...
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Gripping story
- By Cathryn Norris on 24-08-21
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The Secrets Between Us
- The gripping and unforgettable historical fiction book from the top 10 bestseller
- Narrated by: Jenny Funnell
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 17-11-11
- Language: English
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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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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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