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When Janet Frame died in 2004 at the age of 79, the world lost an underappreciated novelist but gained Towards Another Summer, presented here as an audiobook performed by Heather Bolton in a no-frills New Zealand accent befitting the prose.
Written in 1963, the novel was not released during Frame’s lifetime most likely because she considered it too personal. The simple story follows one female writer to a country house to spend a weekend with a journalist and his wife. Frame spares the listener a country farce and treats the listener to a meditation on interiority, longing, and relation. This audiobook is recommended listening for a long, reflective journey.
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Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whirlwind tour of the 20th century as seen through the eyes of an English girl determined to learn about her family and its secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another Kate Atkinson multi-generational story
- De Satisfied Customer en 11-08-18
De: Kate Atkinson
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A Change of Climate
- A Novel
- De: Hilary Mantel
- Narrado por: Sandra Duncan
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. 30 years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and 30 years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their faith, and everything they thought they were.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written
- De Patricia S. en 10-11-15
De: Hilary Mantel
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Enemy Brothers (Living History Library)
- De: Constance Savery
- Narrado por: Paul L. Coffey
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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British airman Dym Ingleford is convinced that the young German prisoner, Max Eckermann, is his brother Anthony, who was kidnapped years before. Raised in the Nazi ideology, Tony has by chance tumbled into British hands. Dym has brought him back, at least temporarily, to the family he neither remembers nor will acknowledge as his own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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More people should read this wonderful story!!!
- De E.F.B. en 08-02-18
De: Constance Savery
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Light Years
- De: James Salter
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a marriage by a contemporary American master. It is the story of Nedra and Viri, whose favored life is centered around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable friends, and near-perfect days passed skating on a frozen river or sunning on the beach.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Unfathomable Font of Blue: Life's Serial Goodbyes
- De W Perry Hall en 04-18-19
De: James Salter
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A House for Mr. Biswas
- De: V. S. Naipaul
- Narrado por: Sam Dastor
- Duración: 21 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 338
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A House for Mr. Biswas, by Nobel and Booker Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul, is a powerful novel about one man's struggle for identity and belonging. Born into poverty, then trapped in the shackles of charity and gratitude, Mr. Biswas longs for a house he can call his own. He loathes his wife and her wealthy family, upon whom he is dependent. Finding himself a mere accessory on their estate, his constant rebellion is motivated by the one thing that can symbolize his independence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Performance makes a fatal mistake. No Trini accent
- De Christopher en 01-04-19
De: V. S. Naipaul
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The Story of Lucy Gault
- De: William Trevor
- Narrado por: Katherine Borowitz
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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The Story of Lucy Gault traces the repercussions of a child’s attempt to remain in her beloved home.Threatened with a move from Ireland to England, 9-year-old Lucy runs away, setting off a series of misunderstandings that will eventually touch each inhabitant of her village.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Style
- De Wendy B Dwyer en 02-01-25
De: William Trevor
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Owls Do Cry
- De: Janet Frame
- Narrado por: Heather Bolton
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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Owls Do Cry is Janet Frame's first novel. She describes her idea behind it in the second volume of her autobiography: 'Pictures of great treasure in the midst of sadness and waste haunted me and I began to think, in fiction, of a childhood, home life, hospital life, using people known to me as a base for main characters, and inventing minor characters.'
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4 out of 5 stars
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well told but a wee bit depressing.
- De Muzza en 11-03-19
De: Janet Frame
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South Riding
- De: Winifred Holtby
- Narrado por: Carole Boyd
- Duración: 19 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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In this rich and memorable evocation of the fictional South Riding of Yorkshire are the lives, loves and sorrows of the central characters. There is Sarah Burton, fiery young headmistress; Robert Carne of Maythorpe Hall, a councillor tormented by his own disastrous marriage; Jo Astell, a socialist fighting poverty and his own illness; and Mrs Beddows, the first woman Alderman of the district (like Winifred's own mother).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Worth Revisiting
- De Ilana en 11-04-12
De: Winifred Holtby
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East of the Sun
- De: Julia Gregson
- Narrado por: Tania Rodrigues
- Duración: 19 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 161
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Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naive bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband. And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood, ghosts from the past and freedom.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Indian history takes a back seat to 3 young women
- De Richard en 05-24-16
De: Julia Gregson
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The Flight of Gemma Hardy
- A Novel
- De: Margot Livesey
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 320
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Fate has not been kind to Gemma Hardy. Orphaned then neglected, young Gemma seemed destined for a life of hardship and loneliness. Yet her bright spirit burns strong. Fiercely intelligent, singularly determined, Gemma overcomes each challenge and setback, growing stronger and more certain of her path. Now an independent young woman, she accepts a position as an au pair on the remote and beautiful Orkney Islands. But Gemma’s biggest trial is about to begin....
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4 out of 5 stars
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f you loved Jane Eyre, you will like this novel.
- De Cecilia en 02-09-12
De: Margot Livesey
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The Muse
- A Novel
- De: Jessie Burton
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin, Maria Elena Infantino
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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England, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London. When she starts working at the prestigious Skelton Institute of Art, she discovers a painting rumored to be the work of Isaac Robles, a young artist of immense talent and vision whose mysterious death has confounded the art world for decades. The excitement over the painting is matched by the intrigue around the conflicting stories of its discovery.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed narration
- De Amy Fleury en 08-05-16
De: Jessie Burton
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Mr. Fox
- A Novel
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Carol Boyd
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently....
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Great Novel, just Poor for Audio
- De James A. Dittes en 08-13-16
De: Helen Oyeyemi
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Silver Wattle
- De: Belinda Alexandra
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 16 h y 15 m
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In fear for their lives after the sudden death of their mother, Adéla and Klára must flee Prague to find refuge with their uncle in Australia. Later, Adéla becomes a film director at a time when the local industry is starting to feel the competition from Hollywood. But even while success is imminent, the issues of family and an impossible love are never far away.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a really terrific read
- De Paddington en 06-21-11
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Putney
- A Novel
- De: Sofka Zinovieff
- Narrado por: Michelle Ford
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
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In the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man 20 years her senior. Masterfully told from three diverse viewpoints - victim, perpetrator, and witness - Putney is a subtle and enormously powerful novel about consent, agency, and what we tell ourselves to justify what we do, and what others do to us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the greatest stories of all time!
- De Valarie en 06-17-20
De: Sofka Zinovieff
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The Women in the Castle
- De: Jessica Shattuck
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined - an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times notable book The Hazards of Good Breeding.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Skating On The Thin Ice Of Life
- De Sara en 04-29-17
De: Jessica Shattuck
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- 11-04-20
Beautiful Book
I loved its poetic imagery and vivid evocation of an author who suffers from social anxiety. My favorite of the 3 Frame novels I've read.
Amazon reviewer D. Lagare wrote the perfect 4-star description and review if this book. I can't do better. Use the translation button below the review to see it in English. I agree with their idea that you need to be a little familiar with Frame's history (Wiki is good) to understand this novel.
I also appreciated the performance done I believe by a New Zealand actor. Perfect!
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