The Heart Is a Star
No se pudo agregar al carrito
Add to Cart failed.
Error al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Error al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Error al añadir a tu biblioteca
Error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
Exclusivo para miembros Prime: ¿Nuevo en Audible? Obtén 2 audiolibros gratis con tu prueba.
The Heart Is a Star
Compra ahora por $20.00
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrado por:
-
Susan Lyons
-
De:
-
Megan Rogers
Acerca de esta escucha
Absorbing, lyrical, vivid and thoroughly enjoyable—The Heart is a Star is beautiful storytelling from a talented new writer. A novel for fans of Holly Ringland, Jacqueline Maley, Hannah Richell.
Layla Byrnes is exhausted. She's juggling a demanding job as an anaesthetist, a disintegrating marriage, her young kids, and a needy lover. And most particularly she's managing her histrionically unstable mother, who repeatedly threatens to kill herself.
But this year, it's different. When her mother rings just before Christmas, she doesn't follow the usual script. Instead, she tells Layla that there's something she needs to tell her about her much-loved father. In response, Layla drops everything to rush to her childhood home on the wild west coast of Tasmania. She's determined to finally confront her mother—and find out what really happened to her father—and lay some demons to rest.
The Heart is a Star is an engrossing, lyrical and powerfully absorbing novel about the complicated and beautiful messiness of midlife; about the ways in which we navigate an intricate, complicated world; and about how we can uncover our true selves when we are forced to face the myths that make us.
"A riveting read; deeply, compellingly human … It's heart-wrenching, and in the end, completely, beautifully, liberating. I couldn't put it down."—Lisa Cron, NYT bestselling author of Wired for Story
©2025 Megan Rogers (P)2025 Recorded BooksRelacionado con este tema
-
Hitchhikers
- De: Ben H. Winters
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 3 h y 27 m
- Grabación Original
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 156
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 153
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
Annie has always had high hopes for her future. But the reality of her life just isn’t measuring up. She loves her fiancé, Greg–doesn’t she? She’s going to get her degree and open her own business–won’t she? Then, a strange old woman shows up outside her house, and she seems to know a lot about Annie. An awful lot. Annie could tell the old woman to get lost. Yet there’s something about her Annie just can’t shake. And what she learns could change her life forever–but is it the life she envisioned?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Quality acting and thoughtful story.
- De Terrance en 03-16-25
De: Ben H. Winters
-
George Orwell’s 1984
- An Audible Original adaptation
- De: George Orwell, Joe White - adaptation
- Narrado por: Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Erivo, Andrew Scott, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 27 m
- Grabación Original
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,715
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10,152
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,151
It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A Revelation!
- De wotsallthisthen en 04-07-24
De: George Orwell, y otros
-
The Answer Is No
- A Short Story
- De: Fredrik Backman, Elizabeth DeNoma - translator
- Narrado por: Stacy Gonzalez
- Duración: 1 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 1,062
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,000
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,000
Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Narrator doesn’t get Backman’s satire or rhythm
- De joey1603 en 12-01-24
De: Fredrik Backman, y otros
-
The Art of War
- De: Sun Tzu
- Narrado por: Aidan Gillen
- Duración: 1 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 41,973
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34,783
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34,364
The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The actual book The Art of War, not a commentary
- De Nemo71 en 12-31-19
De: Sun Tzu
-
Say No More
- De: Caroline Overington
- Narrado por: Anna Skellern
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
- Grabación Original
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,511
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,479
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,479
Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Seriously, that was the ending?
- De alicia in athens en 02-13-25
-
Fahrenheit 451
- De: Ray Bradbury
- Narrado por: Tim Robbins
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 32,997
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29,367
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29,323
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
- De Joel en 03-27-17
De: Ray Bradbury
-
Hitchhikers
- De: Ben H. Winters
- Narrado por: Therese Plummer
- Duración: 3 h y 27 m
- Grabación Original
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 156
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 153
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 153
Annie has always had high hopes for her future. But the reality of her life just isn’t measuring up. She loves her fiancé, Greg–doesn’t she? She’s going to get her degree and open her own business–won’t she? Then, a strange old woman shows up outside her house, and she seems to know a lot about Annie. An awful lot. Annie could tell the old woman to get lost. Yet there’s something about her Annie just can’t shake. And what she learns could change her life forever–but is it the life she envisioned?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Quality acting and thoughtful story.
- De Terrance en 03-16-25
De: Ben H. Winters
-
George Orwell’s 1984
- An Audible Original adaptation
- De: George Orwell, Joe White - adaptation
- Narrado por: Andrew Garfield, Cynthia Erivo, Andrew Scott, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 27 m
- Grabación Original
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 10,715
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10,152
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10,151
It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
A Revelation!
- De wotsallthisthen en 04-07-24
De: George Orwell, y otros
-
The Answer Is No
- A Short Story
- De: Fredrik Backman, Elizabeth DeNoma - translator
- Narrado por: Stacy Gonzalez
- Duración: 1 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 1,062
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 1,000
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,000
Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Narrator doesn’t get Backman’s satire or rhythm
- De joey1603 en 12-01-24
De: Fredrik Backman, y otros
-
The Art of War
- De: Sun Tzu
- Narrado por: Aidan Gillen
- Duración: 1 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 41,973
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34,783
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34,364
The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The actual book The Art of War, not a commentary
- De Nemo71 en 12-31-19
De: Sun Tzu
-
Say No More
- De: Caroline Overington
- Narrado por: Anna Skellern
- Duración: 5 h y 47 m
- Grabación Original
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,511
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,479
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,479
Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Seriously, that was the ending?
- De alicia in athens en 02-13-25
-
Fahrenheit 451
- De: Ray Bradbury
- Narrado por: Tim Robbins
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 32,997
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29,367
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 29,323
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
- De Joel en 03-27-17
De: Ray Bradbury
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
-
Mona Acts Out
- A Novel
- De: Mischa Berlinski
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 4
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
Celebrated stage actress Mona Zahid wakes up on Thanksgiving morning to the clamor of guests packed into her Manhattan apartment and to a wave of dread: her in-laws are lurking on the other side of the bedroom door; she’s still fighting with her husband; and in just a few weeks she will begin rehearsals as Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, the hardest role in theater. In an impulsive burst, Mona bounds out the door with the family dog in tow (“I forgot the parsley!” is her lame excuse) to find her estranged mentor, Milton Katz, who was recently forced out of the legendary theater company he founded.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Hilarious 48 hour romp through New York with a somewhat unbalanced Shakespearean actress and her Beagle.
- De Sally T. Warthen en 02-04-25
De: Mischa Berlinski
-
Night of a Thousand Darlas
- A Novel
- De: Brooke Abrams
- Narrado por: Eva Kaminsky
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14
Liza Day’s mother isn’t dead, but leave it to Darla Day to throw herself a funeral anyway. It’s the kind of attention grab Liza left behind to build a quiet life for herself and her rebellious teenage daughter, Avery. But between her students discovering her old daytime TV show—putting her teaching job at risk—and her mother’s unexpected funeral invitation, Liza’s life feels truly like a soap opera.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Kudos to Brooke Abrams
- De J. Lombardo en 02-07-25
De: Brooke Abrams
-
Myrrh
- De: Polly Hall
- Narrado por: Charlie Albers
- Duración: 8 h
- Versión completa
-
General0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Myrrh has a goblin inside her, a voice in her head that tells her all the things she's done wrong, that berates her and drags her down. Desperately searching for her birth-parents across dilapidated seaside towns in the South coast of England, she finds herself silenced and cut off at every step. Cayenne is trapped in a loveless marriage, the distance between her and her husband growing further and further each day. Longing for a child, she has visions promising her a baby.
De: Polly Hall
-
The Family Lies
- De: Angela Henry
- Narrado por: Rachel Handshaw
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 9
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 8
Sabrina Adams thought her luck had finally turned around when she was hired as a librarian for the wealthy Dorsey family. But as soon as she arrives at their elegant estate, she senses something is off. They have cameras everywhere. She’s banned from the third floor, and she spotted someone watching the house from the nearby woods. And why does the housekeeper, Mrs Manning, insist on so many rules?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The twists have twists!
- De AJ Holmes en 02-28-25
De: Angela Henry
-
Dear Dickhead
- A Novel
- De: Virginie Despentes, Frank Wynne - translator
- Narrado por: Gina Rogers, Patrick Zeller
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 2
Oscar is a B-list novelist in his forties. He used to be an alcoholic and a cokehead, but now he keeps himself busy by ranting on social media. When Rebecca, an actress whose looks he insulted, sends him an angry email, they strike up a combative correspondence—at the very moment that Oscar is accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist. What ensues is a no-holds-barred conversation about life under the patriarchy, and above all about addiction—to drugs, to alcohol, to the internet, to rage.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Great reads
- De MKAT en 03-04-25
De: Virginie Despentes, y otros
-
The Couple at the Lake House
- De: James Caine
- Narrado por: Hope Shangle
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 10
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 10
When newly engaged Sidney is out on a date with her fiance, she runs into an old flame, Cole, and his girlfriend. Initially, Sidney resists when Cole invites them to join his table, but when the couples hit it off, she sets aside her reservations.
De: James Caine
-
Mona Acts Out
- A Novel
- De: Mischa Berlinski
- Narrado por: Alyssa Bresnahan
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
-
General5 out of 5 stars 4
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
-
Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
Celebrated stage actress Mona Zahid wakes up on Thanksgiving morning to the clamor of guests packed into her Manhattan apartment and to a wave of dread: her in-laws are lurking on the other side of the bedroom door; she’s still fighting with her husband; and in just a few weeks she will begin rehearsals as Shakespeare’s Cleopatra, the hardest role in theater. In an impulsive burst, Mona bounds out the door with the family dog in tow (“I forgot the parsley!” is her lame excuse) to find her estranged mentor, Milton Katz, who was recently forced out of the legendary theater company he founded.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Hilarious 48 hour romp through New York with a somewhat unbalanced Shakespearean actress and her Beagle.
- De Sally T. Warthen en 02-04-25
De: Mischa Berlinski
-
Night of a Thousand Darlas
- A Novel
- De: Brooke Abrams
- Narrado por: Eva Kaminsky
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
-
Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14
Liza Day’s mother isn’t dead, but leave it to Darla Day to throw herself a funeral anyway. It’s the kind of attention grab Liza left behind to build a quiet life for herself and her rebellious teenage daughter, Avery. But between her students discovering her old daytime TV show—putting her teaching job at risk—and her mother’s unexpected funeral invitation, Liza’s life feels truly like a soap opera.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Kudos to Brooke Abrams
- De J. Lombardo en 02-07-25
De: Brooke Abrams
-
Myrrh
- De: Polly Hall
- Narrado por: Charlie Albers
- Duración: 8 h
- Versión completa
-
General0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Narración:0 out of 5 stars 0
-
Historia0 out of 5 stars 0
Myrrh has a goblin inside her, a voice in her head that tells her all the things she's done wrong, that berates her and drags her down. Desperately searching for her birth-parents across dilapidated seaside towns in the South coast of England, she finds herself silenced and cut off at every step. Cayenne is trapped in a loveless marriage, the distance between her and her husband growing further and further each day. Longing for a child, she has visions promising her a baby.
De: Polly Hall
-
The Family Lies
- De: Angela Henry
- Narrado por: Rachel Handshaw
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 9
-
Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 8
Sabrina Adams thought her luck had finally turned around when she was hired as a librarian for the wealthy Dorsey family. But as soon as she arrives at their elegant estate, she senses something is off. They have cameras everywhere. She’s banned from the third floor, and she spotted someone watching the house from the nearby woods. And why does the housekeeper, Mrs Manning, insist on so many rules?
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
The twists have twists!
- De AJ Holmes en 02-28-25
De: Angela Henry
-
Dear Dickhead
- A Novel
- De: Virginie Despentes, Frank Wynne - translator
- Narrado por: Gina Rogers, Patrick Zeller
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
-
General4.5 out of 5 stars 3
-
Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 2
Oscar is a B-list novelist in his forties. He used to be an alcoholic and a cokehead, but now he keeps himself busy by ranting on social media. When Rebecca, an actress whose looks he insulted, sends him an angry email, they strike up a combative correspondence—at the very moment that Oscar is accused of sexual harassment by his former publicist. What ensues is a no-holds-barred conversation about life under the patriarchy, and above all about addiction—to drugs, to alcohol, to the internet, to rage.
-
3 out of 5 stars
-
Great reads
- De MKAT en 03-04-25
De: Virginie Despentes, y otros
-
The Couple at the Lake House
- De: James Caine
- Narrado por: Hope Shangle
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
-
General4 out of 5 stars 10
-
Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 10
-
Historia4 out of 5 stars 10
When newly engaged Sidney is out on a date with her fiance, she runs into an old flame, Cole, and his girlfriend. Initially, Sidney resists when Cole invites them to join his table, but when the couples hit it off, she sets aside her reservations.
De: James Caine