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Title: Behind Closed Doors

Author: Susan Lewis

Narrator: Clare Corbett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-14

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The powerful new novel about how life can change course in a heartbeat. From the Sunday Times top-ten bestselling author of Never Say Goodbye.

When 14-year-old Sophie Monroe suddenly vanishes one night it looks at first as though shes run away from home.

Her computer and mobile phone have gone, and shes taken a bag full of clothes.

As the police investigation unfolds a wealth of secrets from the surrounding community start coming to light. And it seems everyone has something to hide.

For Detective Sergeant Andrea Lawrence, the case is a painful reminder of the tragedy that tore her family apart over 20 years ago. She is convinced there is more to Sophies disappearance than teenage rebellion.

But is the past clouding her judgment, preventing her from seeing a truth that neither she, nor Sophies family, would ever want to face?

Members Reviews:

A shocking web of deceit.

If you could sum up Behind Closed Doors in three words, what would they be?

enjoyable, sad, shocking

What did you like best about this story?

The twists and turns

Which character as performed by Clare Corbett was your favourite?

Sophie and her best friend.

If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Look closer

Any additional comments?

This is a harrowing tale of an unhappy girl told with sensitivity. The story features many characters with a secret to hide whichkeeps the reader in suspense. Keep your tissues close, but don't hesitate to read it as it is an enjoyable read.

Excellent

Another Excellent book the story was very well read, I enjoyed it very much. Thank you

Listened almost non stop

I enjoyed this story , made all the better by the narrator. I love Clare Corbetts voice and will hunt out more

books she has narrated.

Buy it

Very enjoyable

A follow up would be a good idea

I'd like to know what happens to Penny and both the parents at trial

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Title: The Meaning of Grace

Author: Deborah Forster

Narrator: Cat Gould

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

"Mum is the reference point. If you ever get confused about anything, there she is, waiting with all her knowledge of you."

Grace Fisher, mother of three, one day decides her husband is a sore disappointment and moves the family from Melbourne to a coastal village in Victoria. But Ian's slow dissolution on the couch masked a depression that will harrow him into an early grave, leaving the kids with a lifetime of questioning: What happened to their father? How did he get so sad? Between their father's demise and Grace's hardscrabble existence working at a local bakery, each child is left to find meaning on their own.

Edie, the eldest child, locks herself into a romantic ideal so lofty that it can't help but fail. The middle child, Juliet, struts and careens through life, filling it only with what she can seduce, steal, and manipulate. Sibling rivalry between sisters proves the slowest and fiercest of burns. Love comes easily for Ted, the youngest, but when his wife abandons him to raise two daughters on his own, the perils of fatherhood are laid bare. When Grace, the distant, imperfect hub of the family, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, the siblings are forced to confront each other as adults, and come to understand their mother.

Written with her hallmark warmth, humour, and deftness of observation, Deborah Forster's follow-up novel to the Miles Franklin shortlisted The Book of Emmett is a moving story of the loves and rivalries that burn at the heart of every family, and the meaning that comes from it.

Members Reviews:

Make some time for this one

I loved this book. The characters were beautifully drawn and became real as I traveled through the book, but Deborah never said too much. The perspectives were gentle and suggestive, moving the reader into a lovely dance of imagining events from different points of view. I could not put this book down. There were so many sentences and phrases that I re-read in order to set them in my mind. Deborah's writing is a joy to read. Her storytelling is moving. A thoroughly wonderful book.

Three Stars

Good storey, however ended a little abruptly.

Not enough story

The book is well written but there was not enough story to maintain my interest and so I didn't finish it.

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Title: Mrs Sinclair's Suitcase

Author: Louise Walters

Narrator: Anna Bentinck, Karen Cass

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-14

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Forgive me, Dorothea, for I cannot forgive you. What you do, to this child, to this child's mother, it is wrong...

Roberta likes to collect the letters and postcards she finds in second-hand books. When her father gives her some of her grandmother's belongings, she finds a baffling letter from the grandfather she never knew - dated after he supposedly died in the war.

Dorothy is unhappily married to Albert, who is away at war. When an aeroplane crashes in the field behind her house she meets Squadron Leader Jan Pietrykowski, and as their bond deepens she dares to hope she might find happiness. But fate has other plans for them both, and soon she is hiding a secret so momentous that its shockwaves will touch her granddaughter many years later...

Members Reviews:

Maudlin and more fitting for Mills and Boon

I bought this on the strength of the reviews but was sorely disappointed. It was a bit like sitting on a bus listening to someone chattering away with details of their life, really - I am not one for wanting to know the minutiae of other people's existence.

Once I got the gist of the plot (?) I just gave up listening. - I felt that I was intruding into someone's space.

Certainly not one for me, I kept waiting for some purpose to be shown, but there was none. A pointless tale!

No real surprises or revelations

I too read this on the basis of previous reviews and was disappointed. The plot is a standard WW2 story about love and loss and the impacts of decisions we make. I was expecting more insight or some form of revelation that would surprise me but the story was quite predictable. I just didn't find it very interesting and kept getting distracted. I spotted the one plot twist a mile away. I'm assuming we are meant to draw parallels between the narrator and her grandmother whose story she uncovers but it is not particularly enlightening.

good story

this was nice read a little weak at times,but would still recommend as a good travel read

Enjoyable read

Great narrators, main female characters very likable. Believe story... Would recommend it

A fascinating story

I found it difficult to get started on this book, but I'm glad I persisted because it gathers up fragments of the past to create a compelling story. The book deals sensitively with some difficult issues and I found it surprisingly thought provoking.

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Título: El blog de la Doctora Jomeini

Autor: Ana González Duque

Narrador: Bea Rebollo, Daniel Angel Montalvo

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 2 hrs and 24 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 08-12-14

Editor: Audible Studios

Categorías: Fiction, Contemporary

Resumen del editor:

Una novela divertida y original que nos enseñará el lado más humano de la medicina y las aventuras de una mujer que tiene que empezar de cero. El blog de la Doctora Jomeini arranca cuando la doctora se traslada a Madrid para hacer el MIR de Anestesiología, recién llegada a la capital, su novio, la razón por la cual ella se muda de las Islas Canarias a la capital, la abandona por otra. Ella comienza su vida de cero, con nuevas compañeras de piso y de trabajo y con una nueva relación amorosa. Es una novela llena de humor que nos enseñará la parte más oscura y dramática de la medicina, pero también a afrontar la vida con una sonrisa.

Ana González Duque tiene un blog en el que publica como Doctora Jomeini. Es una anestesióloga y de las Islas Canarias y hasta ahí las semejanzas con su protagonista. Usando un divertido alter ego, consigue relatarnos historias divertidas, tiernas y, a veces, dramáticas; pero, sobre todo, humanas. Su formación como poeta se hace patente en la riqueza verbal de la obra y en la variedad de recursos estilísticos que usa, con tino, para que entremos de lleno en esta historia y la disfrutemos desde el principio hasta el final.

El tema de la novela es original ya que pocas novelas de "chick-lit" tratan el mundo interno de los médicos, y mucho menos teniendo a una anestesista como protagonista. La estructura de la obra en forma de bitácora agiliza la narración y permite combinar el sentido del humor con las reflexiones más profundas e incluso con escenas dramáticas. El estilo de la autora es fresco y desenfadado, sus inicios como poeta se notan en la riqueza lingüística de la obra y en los numerosos recursos poéticos. El blog del cual surge la obra tiene una gran aceptación popular con más de 2,000 visitas por entradas desde su creación. Las aventuras de Jomeini, sus comentarios ácidos y divertidos, nos llevarán a conocer la parte más humana de los quirófanos y las relaciones especiales entre cirujano y anestesista.

Please Note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Opiniones de los miembros:

Muy interesante, buena presentación de las situaciones planteadas. ...

Muy interesante, buena presentación de las situaciones planteadas. De no ser por la aclaratoria de que son producto de la imaginación de la autora, se entendería como situaciones bien reales y vívidas.

Divertido

Me ha gustado mucho la narrativa, el nombre que le da a los personajes, muy originales. Como soy medico me he sentido identificada con el día a día de Jomeini. Buen libro.

Muy entretenido y divertido. Bien escrito, con humor ...

Muy entretenido y divertido. Bien escrito, con humor...Lo disfruté, de hecho lo lei en una mañana y me pareció corto.

muy muy bueno

me gustó mucho la manera tan simpática de escribir las peripecias de su internado

Four Stars

Muy divertido y ameno, espero que pronto tengan la segunda parte.

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Title: Two Face

Subtitle: Things Aren't Always What They Seem

Author: Trae Ferguson

Narrator: Jonathan Waters

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-14

Publisher: Ferguson Publishing Co

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Diane and Kristopher Michaels had been happily married for over five years when they were blessed with their first born son Kristopher Jr. They thought this day would never come after two devastating miscarriages. Kristopher Jr. was a dream come true for the proud father, but his dream would soon turn into a nightmare.

At the age of five, Kristopher Jr. is diagnosed with gender identity disorder which leaves him feeling trapped in the wrong body. Kristopher Jr. faces heartache and constant rejection from his family and friends as he transforms into the beautiful Krisette.

Krisette finally finds happiness and true love when she marries her high school sweetheart Derek McQueen, but what should be a happily-ever-after turns into a situation of deadly consequences once her secret is revealed.

Members Reviews:

Lessons In Self Love!

Where do I begin! The story of Diane and Kristopher Michaels seems to be too good to be true. That is, until they have a beautiful baby boy, and respectfully name him Kristopher Jr after his dad. The Michaels seem to be the perfect family amongst their family and friends, and what man wouldn't want a namesake to carry on the family name, right?

Well, as little Kristopher gets older, he starts exhibiting strange behaviors around the house that begin to worry his parents. Ultimately, their picture perfect family begins to unravel right before their eyes. Distraught with fear and uncertainty of what to do, the Michaels set out on a quest to fix their son. But at what cost? What would you sacrifice for your child's happiness? How far would you go?

Very well written, along with a phenomenal outline of detailed characters and their roller coaster of emotions expressed so vividly, Author Trae Furgeson, has penned a novel so raw when it comes to the effects of what can happen within one family, as the only born son has been diagnosed with gender identity disorder. A lesson that ultimately has irreversible consequencesâ

Eye-opening!

"Because I am a girl on the inside, but I look like a boy on the outside," K.J. explained.

Yes, this book went there!! Two Face is the story of a boy who at a very young age knew he was in the wrong body and was supposed to be a girl. It not only explores his journey but that of his parents and how they dealt with it.

"I thought God didn't make mistakes; well what in the hell do you call this? All I ever wanted was a son to carry on the Michaels name and now that I have one, he wants to be my daughter."

It was quite interesting to read K.J.'s transformation from being a little boy into a young woman. I haven't personally known anyone that has went through this so it was hard for me to have a connection with the main character. But, his parents were another story. One parent was accepting and the other couldn't handle it. The parent's reactions were mixed and I found that to be quite believable. I think the dad went to the extreme, but some folks do that and you will have to read the book to see what I am talking about. This book makes you ponder when you say you love someone unconditionally, do you really mean it or only when they fit into your image of them.

Two Face is a one of a kind book! It is unique in the subject matter and quite risky. This served as a wake up call to me because while I am friends with several homosexuals I have never met anyone that has surgically changed their gender.

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Title: What Are Girlfriends For?

Author: Sammie Ward

Narrator: Rebecca Roberts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-05-14

Publisher: Lady Leo Publishing

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In the confession, What Are Girlfriends For?, it's Layla Mill's birthday, but her boyfriend Jonathan Carr seems to have forgotten. But when her best friend/co-worker Shauna Summer offers to take her out to celebrate, it's a night Layla will remember for the rest of her life.

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Title: Only Say the Word

Author: Niall Williams

Narrator: Gerry O'Brien

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-31-14

Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Both a novel and a letter from a husband to his wife, Only Say the Word is a haunting, intimate testament to the enduring nature of love. Jim Foley loves his parents, his brother, his sister, Dickens, and God, although not necessarily in that order. Later, he loves Kate, enough to make her his wife; later still, he loves his children, Jack and Hannah.

This is Jim's story, from early days spent in County Clare to early adulthood in America, and back to Clare again. Tracing his journey from child to husband to father, from happy-ever-after to death-do-us-part, from beginnings to endings - and from there to starting afresh once more - it tells of the people and places in Jim's life, his hopes, fears, and fantasies, his ever-evolving relationships and the books that remain always constant.

Deeply-felt, beautifully-told, and written in Niall William's lyrical, lilting prose, Only Say the Word offers both acceptance of the past and hope for the future.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

ok

... waited and waited and read and read for something good to happen - never did

Quite a dark book - I waited and waited and read and read for something good to happen - never did. Would not recommend it - even though the writing was superb.

A Profoundly Touching Love Story...Life Story

Perhaps I'll read a thousand books in my life, hopefully more. Few will impact me as this one has, on so many levels. Easily the most beautifully written story I've ever read, this book is filled with wonderful imagery--vividly-descriptive poetic prose that stirred all my senses and tugged at the full range of my emotions. I smiled. I welled up and shed a tear or two. This is exactly how I aspire to write. On a personal level, I was blessed to begin reading this novel in Ireland at a time when love was very much on my mind and in my heart. Such confluence certainly lent magic to my reading experience. I will savor much more of Niall Williams' work in the very near future. Life is too short to put it off.

"Just this quiet movement, like a gentle current."

This book is wonderful. There's a line in the book that reads "just this quiet movement, like a gentle current." That's exactly how I would describe this book. This is the second book that I have read by this author (I also read The Fall of Light). His style of writing is so poetic and beautiful. The story is intimate, poignant and uplifting.

Premise:

A quiet Bibliophile named Jim Foley tries to reconcile the losses in his life through writing. The story skips from the present day (life with his two children) and back to Jim's childhood growing up in Ireland.

"In our family we are each like boats slipped from the moorings, out in deep waters, and utterly separate or tangled in our own nets of grief and loss." These words describe this man's family growing up and yet could also describe any family in similar circumstances.

Another moving book by Niall Williams

Every word Niall Williams selects for his work is exact--and what he writes is always moving and profound. Thank you.

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Title: Hitler's Girls

Author: Emma Tennant, Hilary Bailey

Narrator: Billie Fulford-Brown

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Adolf Hitler's secret mistress, an upstanding member of the British aristocracy, gives birth to a daughter. The child is whisked away at infancy and raised as an orphan. She is protected from the truth concerning her origins, but that doesn't prevent the remnants of Hitler's scattered empire from seeking her out as part of a plot to reignite their dream of conquering Europe. Enter into our drama the starchy, conservative Jean Hastie, an art historian and official for the Scottish National Trust. When her best friend Monica is murdered she is determined to avenge her death and to rescue Monica's granddaughter, Mel, who is missing and the prime suspect in the crime. She soon finds herself embroiled in the neo-Nazi's conspiracy. Jean sets off to find Mel, traversing crime-ridden London housing projects, the Paris apartment of a former Nazi lawyer, and a chateau in the South of France where a quaint village camouflages a sinister political conclave. In Hitler's Girls, Emma Tennant and Hilary Bailey's wry, atmospheric prose conjures a whirlwind adventure full of international intrigue, subtle humor, and terrifying, timely, political speculation.

Members Reviews:

A waste of a credit!!!

Would you try another book written by Emma Tennant and Hilary Bailey or narrated by Billie Fulford-Brown?

No, no and never.

What was most disappointing about Emma Tennant and Hilary Bailey s story?

From reading the synopsis I thought I was going to get something quite dark and interesting. Unfortunately the book was clichéd, boring and written like a GCSE piece of creative writing (it received a D). The lack of research is breathtaking and clunky syntax left me staggered. How was this book ever selected by Audible?

Would you be willing to try another one of Billie Fulford-Browns performances?

The book is read like robot doing voice-over for a Colgate advert. So, no.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Hitler's Girls?

Hitler's sex scene is just woeful. Why have it?

Any additional comments?

I think book is bad, clearly. However it is dragged to the depths of despair by the worst performance by a narrator I have ever heard. It's as though Billie Fulford-Brown is reading the book for the first time and doesn't know where to place an inflection! And why does the main character speak in a Scottish dialect but her thoughts are in an English dialect? I'm finding it very hard not to swear.

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Title: Upstairs at the Party

Author: Linda Grant

Narrator: Tricia Kelly

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-10-14

Publisher: Whole story Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In the early '70s a glamorous couple known as Evie/Stevie appear out of nowhere on the isolated concrete campus of a new university. To a group of teenagers experimenting with radical ideas they seem blown back from the future, unsettling everything and uncovering covert desires. But the flamboyant self-expression hides deep anxieties. For Adele, with the most to conceal, Evie/Stevie become a lifelong obsession.

Critic Reviews:

"'My only complaint? I fear I may not read a better book all year" (Evening Standard )

"Ambitious . . . Like the best novels, it makes you examine your own moral compass alongside that of its characters" (Observer)

Members Reviews:

spoilt by the narrator

What disappointed you about Upstairs at the Party?

The narrator seems to believe she is acting in a melodrama rather than reading a book. I had to stop listening after 10 minutes because the narrator was so irritating.

Flawed and uneven, but brilliant in parts

This is a novel about university life in the 1970s, seen from the perspective of today. For one of that era ( I went to a new university at the same time) it is richly evocative, capturing both time and place, but more importantly how the world appeared to us then. This makes the first third utterly brilliant. Adele, a tough Liverpudlian, who is caught up in the world without ever internalising its assumptions, makes a great narrator, particularly when she is describing the seventies as if she were in them. When she and the story graduates, it is never quite the same. That is the author's intention - both because something dramatic happened there ( as prefigured in the title) which changes the lives of Adele and her small circle, but also because, with the possible exception of Rose, life somehow could never live up the promise of world-changing freedom that the new universities held out. Both may be true, but after they leave the narrative flounders and the reflections from the present day become somewhat sour and occasionally cliched. She allows her characters to age more quickly, certainly than my contemporaries have. Her description of their return to the University in their late fifties, makes them all sound old and more than a little decrepit, and her view of the period is relentlessly bleak. I know it's a novel, and each of the characters is a singular individual, but the author is very clearly making a statement about an era. Her earlier novel, 'We had it so good', which starts earlier and maintains its narrative drive over several decades, is a more balanced and nuanced portrayal of both the joys and the follies of our baby-boomer generation. It certainly struck more of chord with me. Read them both and make up your own mind.

Powerfully conveys the heady youth of the 70s

Adele spent her university years watching and learning, reading and discussing, partying and experimenting, discovering herself, attempting to escape the traumatic experiences of her teens, wanting to change the world and having plenty of fun doing it. She's liberated, strong-minded and part of a new social order, brimming with confidence and verve. But she becomes haunted by an event that took place upstairs at a party, and the jarring shock of that night never quite leaves her as she moves through the decades of career, motherhood and on into late middle age. Her reflections are as compelling as the account of her student days.

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Title: Faithless

Author: Mink Choi

Narrator: Emily Zeller

Format: Unabridged

Length: 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-09-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Faithless is a work of experimental fiction weaving through various scenes and memories of being in love, out of love, and abused by love as told and experienced by Grace, a troubled 20-something-year-old struggling with her identity as a bisexual Korean-American. Everything is recounted as experienced - in fragments.

Members Reviews:

Don't Bother

Another bizarre story that seemed to have no point, no plot, no continuity. It does however have a protagonist that was impossible for me to relate to or care about. Add to that some scenes that are close to stomach turning and the writing skill of Mink Choi is wasted. This could have been a better effort with less of the flashes of scenes that constitute each chapter reminiscent of books or movies in the 1970's that attempted to be edgy and artsy. This is the type of daring story that the hippie professor in those books or movies would have have praised highly; then bedded the author. In my case it served only to make me wonder if the trend is making a comeback and if so; why?

Violence and the Desire for Gentle Love

What I got out of this experimental work is the life of a woman who desires a soft and warm love experience, but has violence conducted against her, has come from a violent background, and ultimately, can never find that type of love because she too attacks people. When you can't be, or don't feel as though you deserve to be, hugged, you'd rather punch and be punched than stand alone.

However, as much as I appreciated the theme, I enjoyed the personal nature of these stories. In a world where readers connect authors to their works, sharing polarizing events takes courage and confidence in the ultimately positive message the piece communicates.

The author accomplished their goal.