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Narrated by:
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Suzi Dougherty
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By:
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Tim Winton
About this listen
Tim Winton's classic love song to land and place, full of unforgettable characters, is now a feature film starring Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Macdonald and David Wenham.
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At 40, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrimination. One morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she sees a shadow drifting up the beach below - a loner called Luther Fox, with danger in his wake.
2002, Miles Franklin Literary Award, Winner
2002, NSW Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, Winner
2002, The Man Booker Prize, Short-listed
2001, Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Winner
2001, Good Reading Award, Winner
2002, Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize Fiction, Short-listed
2002, BookPeople (formerly ABA) Book of the Year Award, Winner
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"Mr Winton's prose is irresistible." (The New York Times Book Review)
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By: Tim Winton
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Blueback
- By: Tim Winton
- Narrated by: Stig Wemyss
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Abel Jackson lives with his mother, Dora, at Longboat Bay, an isolated stretch of coast whose waters teem with fish. Theirs is a simple life. It’s tough. And at times it’s lonely. But Abel has friends in the sea, particularly the magnificent old groper he meets one day while diving for abalone. Abel learns that the sea and its treasures are precious. And as Longboat Bay is threatened by greedy developers and overfishing, Abel and his mum wonder how they can keep their homeplace safe.
By: Tim Winton
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The Shepherd's Hut
- By: Tim Winton
- Narrated by: Kate Mulvany
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 60
Jaxie dreads going home. His mum’s dead. The old man bashes him without mercy, and he wishes he was an orphan. And then, in one terrible moment, his life is stripped to little more than what he can carry and how he can keep himself alive. There’s just one person left in the world who understands him and what he still dares to hope for. But to reach her he’ll have to cross the vast saltlands on a trek that only a dreamer or a fugitive would attempt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love
- By Melanie on 03-16-18
By: Tim Winton
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The Turning
- By: Tim Winton
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower, Caroline Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4 out of 5 stars 64
Here are turnings of all kinds - changes of heart, nasty surprises, slow awakenings, sudden detours - where people struggle against the terrible weight of the past and challenge the lives they have made for themselves. Beautifully crafted, and as tender as they are confronting, these elegiac stories examine the darkness and frailty of ordinary people and celebrate the moments when the light shines through.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Audible should have mentioned that...
- By dutchkids on 08-30-20
By: Tim Winton
lacking authenticity
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