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Ulysses
- By: James Joyce
- Narrated by: Jim Norton
- Length: 27 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall968
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Performance774
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Story763
Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century. It tells the story of one day in Dublin, June 16th 1904, largely through the eyes of Stephen Dedalus (Joyce's alter ego from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and Leopold Bloom, an advertising salesman. Both begin a normal day, and both set off on a journey around the streets of Dublin, which eventually brings them into contact with one another.
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Amazing
- By R. D. A. Wells on 02-04-12
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Ulysses
- Narrated by: Jim Norton
- Length: 27 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 23-07-08
- Language: English
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Just Like You
- Two opposites fall unexpectedly in love in this pin-sharp, brilliantly funny book from the bestselling author of About a Boy
- By: Nick Hornby
- Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith, Hattie Ladbury
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall280
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Performance263
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Story262
Brought to you by Penguin. 'Hornby is the poet of the everyday' Observer _______________________________________________________ Lucy married just the sort of man you might expect: a university graduate who runs his own business. Unfortunately he turned out to have serious dependency issues...
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Latest Nick Hornby novel is up with his best work
- By papapownall on 23-09-20
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Just Like You
- Two opposites fall unexpectedly in love in this pin-sharp, brilliantly funny book from the bestselling author of About a Boy
- Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith, Hattie Ladbury
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- Language: English
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The Outside Boy
- By: Jeanine Cummins
- Narrated by: Alan Devally
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall913
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Performance851
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Story848
Ireland, 1959. Young Christopher Hurley is a tinker, a Pavee gypsy, who roams with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well: his mother's death in childbirth. The wandering life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. His father decides to settle briefly, in a town, where Christy and his cousin can receive proper schooling. But still, always, they are treated as outsiders.
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Brilliant
- By kim on 24-10-20
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The Outside Boy
- Narrated by: Alan Devally
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 20-08-20
- Language: English
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Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim
- By: David Sedaris
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall749
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Performance616
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Story614
No one renders the pathos, chaos, and impossible variety of daily encounters like David Sedaris. On every subject, he is bruisingly painful and tenderly affectionate. Sedaris is unique in American writing, and these readings of his own work are highly skilled performances. This new collection...
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Outstandingly sad, funny and bitchy family life
- By Kaggy on 06-08-16
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Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 09-02-06
- Language: English
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The Bell
- By: Iris Murdoch, A S Byatt - introduction
- Narrated by: Miriam Margoyles
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall252
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Performance220
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Story222
Brought to you by Penguin. VINTAGE CLASSICS MURDOCH: Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels A lay...
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Absolute pleasure
- By Karen on 03-10-12
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The Bell
- Narrated by: Miriam Margoyles
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-07-11
- Language: English
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Golden Lion
- By: Wilbur Smith, Kristian
- Narrated by: Seån Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall377
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Performance332
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Story329
Worldwide bestselling author Wilbur Smith will take you on an incredible journey on the thrashing seas off the coast of Africa in this glorious return to the series that made him who he is: The Courtney series. East African Coast, 1670. In a time of brave and brutal adventure, one man will...
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wow!
- By Adsy on 06-07-16
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Golden Lion
- Narrated by: Seån Barrett
- Series: Courtney, Book 14
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 24-09-15
- Language: English
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Capital
- By: John Lanchester
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall621
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Performance524
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Story521
Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have.
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Teems with London life
- By Kaggy on 09-03-14
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Capital
- Narrated by: Colin Mace
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-05-12
- Language: English
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Long Island Compromise
- By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall155
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Performance150
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Story150
In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of the nicest part of Long Island. He is brutalised, held for ransom and then returned to his family. Miraculously, Carl, his wife and his three kids are left to move on with their lives, and resume their prized places in the ongoing saga of the American dream.
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Slow and empty
- By Anonymous on 18-03-25
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Long Island Compromise
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 09-07-24
- Language: English
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Great Expectations
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall142
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Performance124
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Story126
One of the most revered works in English literature, Great Expectations traces the coming of age of a young orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations into a man of maturity. From the chilling opening confrontation with an escaped convict to the grand but eerily disheveled estate of bitter old Miss Havisham, all is not what it seems in Dickens’ dark tale of false illusions and thwarted desire.
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A Great Expectations achieved.
- By Wras on 20-02-15
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Great Expectations
- Narrated by: Simon Prebble
- Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 24-10-11
- Language: English
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The Little Friend
- By: Donna Tartt
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 24 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,217
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Performance1,090
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Story1,087
The second novel by Donna Tartt, best-selling author of The Goldfinch (winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize), The Little Friend is a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil. The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated.
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DIsappointingly boring
- By Kirstine on 30-04-16
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The Little Friend
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 24 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 30-03-15
- Language: English
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The Safekeep
- Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025
- By: Yael van der Wouden
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Stina Nielsen
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall554
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Performance529
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Story530
Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2025 An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of...
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A beautifully crafted book but ...
- By Ms Henrietta R. Bond on 18-10-25
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The Safekeep
- Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Stina Nielsen
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-05-24
- Language: English
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Mongrel
- 'So beautiful ... It must be read' - LISA TADDEO
- By: Hanako Footman
- Narrated by: Hanako Footman
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall112
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Performance108
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Story108
'Mongrel is so beautiful that I became lost in it . . . Simply, it must be read' LISA TADDEO 'A brilliant explosion of writing and storytelling . . . This feels like reading an Oscar-winning film' AISLING BEA 'Heart-shatteringly visceral and precise . . . a triumphant tribute to the self' WIZ...
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Brilliant book and great narration
- By sim on 05-10-24
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Mongrel
- 'So beautiful ... It must be read' - LISA TADDEO
- Narrated by: Hanako Footman
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 08-02-24
- Language: English
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A Wild Sheep Chase
- By: Haruki Murakami, Alfred Birnbaum - translator
- Narrated by: Dexter Galang
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall190
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Performance165
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Story164
Brought to you by Penguin. A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's international reputation. It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and...
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Good story, poor narration.
- By Christian Jule on 11-08-21
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A Wild Sheep Chase
- Narrated by: Dexter Galang
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
- By: Ben Reeves
- Narrated by: Mike Frankland
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Travis Smith is Death in the modern world. He lives with his cat in a grey English town. He offers people comfort in their final days and hours of life. He's stoic, gentle, a little naive, despite what he knows. He's handsome, he seems young, despite what he is. Each death has a meaning to him...
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Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
- Narrated by: Mike Frankland
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 02-07-26
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Geisha
- By: Arthur Golden
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall646
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Performance429
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Story428
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into...
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Amazing !!
- By Jeanette on 27-11-05
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Memoirs of a Geisha
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 12-06-01
- Language: English
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Reflex
- By: Dick Francis
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall312
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Performance264
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Story267
Jockey Philip Nore is no ordinary hero. When Nore began to suspect that a track photographer's fatal accident was really murder, he sets out to discover the truth and to trap the killer. Slowly, he unravels some nasty secrets involving corruption, blackmail and murder – and unwittingly sets himself up as the killer's next target.
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It's an automatic reflex to read a Dick Francis bo
- By m on 08-07-13
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Reflex
- Narrated by: Tony Britton
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 02-11-05
- Language: English
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Within a Budding Grove
- By: Marcel Proust
- Narrated by: John Rowe
- Length: 23 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall86
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Performance71
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Story71
In the second volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator emerges as an actor in the drama of his own life. Swann has now dwindled into a husband for his former mistress, Odette, and their daughter, Gilberte, becomes the adolescent narrator's playmate and tantalising love object. We move from Paris to the seaside town of Balbec, from ritualised social performances to midsummer spontaneity and from Gilberte to her successor Albertine.
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"Like floating down a river..."
- By saly on 09-08-16
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Within a Budding Grove
- Narrated by: John Rowe
- Series: Remembrance of Things Past, Book 2
- Length: 23 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-07-09
- Language: English
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War Lord
- The Last Kingdom Series, Book 13
- By: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,383
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Performance1,229
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Story1,224
The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller IN THE FINAL RECKONING, CHOOSE YOUR SIDE CAREFULLY… The epic conclusion to the globally bestselling historical series. After years fighting to reclaim his rightful home, Uhtred of Bebbanburg has returned to Northumbria. With his loyal band of warriors and a new...
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Fantastic story interweaved with history.
- By Paul on 17-10-20
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War Lord
- The Last Kingdom Series, Book 13
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Series: Last Kingdom (formerly Saxon Tales), Book 13
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 15-10-20
- Language: English
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The Luck of the Bodkins
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall284
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Performance247
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Story246
Things on board the R.M.S. Atlantic are terribly, terribly complicated... Monty Bodkin loves Gertrude, who thinks he likes Lotus Blossom, a starlet, who definitely adores Ambrose, who thinks that she has a thing for his brother, Reggie, who is struck by Mabel Spence, sister-in-law of Ikey Llewellyn (movie mogul, Ambrose's prospective employer and reluctant smuggler), but hasn't the means to marry her.
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Well written - well read
- By George on 08-04-13
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The Luck of the Bodkins
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
- Series: Drones Club, Monty Bodkin, Book 1
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 03-09-08
- Language: English
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Learning to Swim
- By: Clare Chambers
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall244
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Performance219
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Story218
Abigail Jex never expected to see any of the Radleys again. They were extraordinary, captivating creatures transplanted from a bohemian corner of North London to outer suburbia, and the young Abigail found herself drawn into their magic circle: the eccentric Frances, her new best friend; Frances' mother, the liberated, headstrong Lexi; and of course the brilliant, beautiful Rad. Abigail thought she'd banished the ghost of her life with them and the catastrophe that ended it, but 13 years later a chance encounter forces her to acknowledge that the spell is far from broken.
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Wonderful coming of age novel
- By Molly on 19-01-22
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Learning to Swim
- Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 22-07-21
- Language: English
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