Listen to the Best Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary Women

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Evil Eye: A Novel Author: Etaf Rum Narrator: Vaneh Assadourian, Gail Shalan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: September 5, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “A moving meditation on motherhood, inter-generational trauma and how surface appearances often obscure a deeper truth. . . . A stunning second novel from a writer who set the bar very high with her first!”—Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics and Community Board The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking exploration of the expectations of Palestinian-American women, the meaning of a fulfilling life, and the ways our unresolved pasts affect our presents. ''After Yara is placed on probation at work for fighting with a racist coworker, her Palestinian mother claims the provocation and all that’s come after were the result of a family curse. While Yara doesn’t believe in old superstitions, she finds herself unpacking her strict, often volatile childhood growing up in Brooklyn, looking for clues as to why she feels so unfulfilled in a life her mother could only dream of. Etaf Rum’s follow-up to her 2019 debut, A Woman Is No Man, is a complicated mother-daughter drama that looks at the lasting effects of intergenerational trauma and what it takes to break the cycle of abuse.'' —Time magazine, ''The Most Anticipated Books of the Year''

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551311 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Rose In Winter Author: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss Narrator: Rosalyn Landor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 52 minutes Release date: July 11, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: The fairest flower in Mawbry is Erienne Fleming, the enchanting, raven-haired daughter of the village mayor. Charming, spirited and exquisitely lovely, she is beset on all sides by suitors, any one of whom would pay a king's fortune for a place in her heart. But Erienne has eyes for only one: the dashing and witty young Yankee, Christopher Seton. But marriage for love is not to be, for her irresponsible and unscrupulous father, crippled by gambling debts, is intent on auctioning off his beautiful daughter to the highest bidder. And in the end, Erienne is devastated to find it is the strange and secretive Lord Saxton who has purchased her--a mysterious, tragic figure who wears a mask and a cloak at all times to hide disfiguring scars gained in a terrible fire some years back. But in the passing days, Saxton's true nature is revealed to her. A gentle and adoring soul, he treats his new bride with warmth and abiding tenderness, yet appears to her only by daylight. She, in turn, vows to be a good and loyal wife to him. And then Christopher Seton reenters Erienne's world. Conflicted by emotions she cannot suppress, Erienne valiantly attempts to remain honorable to her elusive, enigmatic husband but feels herself irresistibly drawn to Seton's passion, his fire, and his secrets. Entangled in intrigues she doesn't yet understand, Erienne Fleming will soon have to make a devastating choice: between love and honor...between her duty and her heart.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546791 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Looking Out for Love Author: Sophia Money-Coutts Narrator: Sophia Money-Coutts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 55 minutes Release date: February 2, 2023 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: But will she find it where she least expects it? Stella Shakespeare isn’t having a good day, or month come to think of it. She’s been unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend,cut off from the bank of dad and at thirty-two years old, she doesn’t know what she’s doing with her life. What Stella really wants is to find love. She wants all-consuming, can’t-think-about-anything-else, can’t-even-manage-to-eat kind of love. What she found beside her in bed that morning wasn’t love. But when a tall, handsome man in a well-fitting suit walks into a Notting Hill pub, she thinks she’s finally found The One. Everything seems to be falling into place now Stella has met the man of her dreams and has an actual job working with a private investigator nicknamed ‘The Affair Hunter’. Although sadly, life is never that straightforward and Stella starts to question whether she’s been looking for love in the wrong places all along… ––––––––––––––––––––––– Everyone LOVES the hilarious and heart-warming novels by Sophia Money-Coutts ‘Enjoyable and endearing’ Katie Fforde ‘If you’re craving something smoochy, Sophia Money-Coutts’s new romcom will hit the spot and is the perfect antidote for whatever might be ailing you’ Red ‘Hilariously relatable’ Sophie Cousens ‘For fans of Jilly Cooper…warm-hearted, hilarious and romantic’ Best ‘I laughed out loud throughout this’ Laura Jane Williams ‘A heart-warming, witty, feelgood romcom that will brighten the cold winter months’ Platinum ‘Super funny, super witty and so warm’ Lia Louis ‘Fabulous. I raced through this fresh, funny and feelgood latest’ Daily Mail ‘Funny, joyful, life-affirming’ Cressida McLaughlin

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547038 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights: A Novel Author: Kitty Zeldis Narrator: Karen Gundersen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: December 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 8 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “A haunting meditation on the bonds between mothers and daughters. Zeldis offers a fascinating look into historic New York City and New Orleans, and her skill as a storyteller is matched by her compassion for her characters. What a beautiful read.”—Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace “By turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, Kitty Zeldis’s The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights, set against the backdrop of the not-always-so-roaring Twenties, is an only-in-America story of reinvention, rising above tragedy, and finding family.”—Lauren Willig, New York Times bestselling author of Band of Sisters For fans of Fiona Davis, Beatriz Williams, and Joanna Goodman, a mesmerizing historical novel from Kitty Zeldis, the author of Not Our Kind, about three women in 1920s New York City and the secrets they hold. Brooklyn, 1924. As New York City enters the jazz age, the lives of three very different women are about to converge in unexpected ways. Recently arrived from New Orleans, Beatrice is working to establish a chic new dress shop with help from Alice, the orphaned teenage ward she brought north with her. Down the block, newlywed Catherine is restless in her elegant brownstone, longing for a baby she cannot conceive. When Bea befriends Catherine and the two start to become close, Alice feels abandoned and envious, and runs away to Manhattan. Her departure sets into motion a series of events that will force each woman to confront the painful secrets of her past in order to move into the happier future she seeks. Moving from the bustling streets of early twentieth century New York City to late nineteenth-century Russia and the lively quarters of New Orleans in the 1910s, The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights is a story of the families we are born into and the families we choose, and of the unbreakable bonds between women.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/550516 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Liverpool Boy Author: Helen Forrester Narrator: Lizzie Hopley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 51 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s heart-warming and gripping fiction set in Liverpool continues to move readers. Looking back on his life, eight-four year-old Manuel Echaniz will never forget his youth growing up poverty-stricken and in hardship on the streets of Liverpool. Now far away from the place that formed him, Manuel has a family who know nothing about the place he grew up. Concerned by their lack of interest in their heritage, he sets out to teach his granddaughter about his formative years and the matriarchal community that raised him through the toughest of times. Will she ever understand that other world he left behind in the teeming streets of the Mersey docklands? The Liverpool Boy was previously titled The Liverpool Basque.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548831 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stone Diaries Author: Carol Shields Narrator: Deborah Drakeford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 23, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own role in the unsettled decades of the twentieth century. At last, reflecting on her unobserved and unconventional life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography. In The Stone Diaries, one of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, Carol Shields weaves the strands of Daisy’s life together in a rich, sensuous, and poignant work that delivers lasting insights into the nature of life—and fiction.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/548360 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Family Remains: A Novel Author: Lisa Jewell Narrator: Eleanor Tomlinson, Josh Dylan, Bea Holland, Dominic Thorburn, Thomas Judd, Hugh Quarshie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 118 Ratings of Narrator: 4.78 of Total 37 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Other authors are at a ten out of ten, for me, and Lisa is a solid hundred.” —Gillian McAllister, The Sunday Times (London) bestselling author of Wrong Place Wrong Time The #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell weaves a “simply masterful” (Samantha Downing, internationally bestselling author) thriller about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions in this stand-alone sequel to The Family Upstairs. Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold case that left three people dead on the kitchen floor in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago. Rachel Rimmer has also received a shock—her husband, Michael, has been found dead in the cellar of his house in France. All signs point to an intruder, and the French police need her to come urgently to answer questions about Michael and his past that she very much doesn’t want to answer. After fleeing London thirty years ago in the wake of a horrific tragedy, Lucy Lamb is finally coming home. While she settles in with her children and is just about to purchase their first house, her brother takes off to find the boy from their shared past whose memory haunts their present. As they all race to discover answers to these convoluted mysteries, they will come to find that they’re connected in ways they could have never imagined. In this masterful standalone sequel to her haunting New York Times bestseller The Family Upstairs, “Lisa Jewell is a superb writer at the top of her game” (Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author) with another jaw-dropping, intricate, and affecting novel about the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love and uncover the truth.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551785 to listen full audiobooks. Title: After the Hurricane: A Novel Author: Leah Franqui Narrator: Frankie Corzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 55 minutes Release date: August 9, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Named by Etaf Rum as one of the Best Beach Reads of All Time for ''Read with Jenna!'' Reminiscent of Gabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt, Leah Franqui brings us an engrossing, deeply personal novel with a mystery at its heart as a daughter returns to Puerto Rico to search for her troubled father, who has gone missing after Hurricane Maria.  From the outside, Elena Vega’s life appears to be an easy one: the only child of two professional parents, private school, NYU. But her twenties are aimless and lacking in connection. Something has always been amiss in her life: her father, the brilliant but deeply troubled Santiago Vega.  Born in rural Puerto Rico, Santiago arrived in New York as a small child. His harsh, mercurial father returned to the island, leaving Santiago to be raised by his mentally ill mother and his formidable grandmother. An outstanding student, he followed scholarships to Stanford, then Yale Law, marrying Elena’s mother along the way. Santiago is the shining star of his migrant family—the one who made it out and struck it rich. But he is a haunted man, plagued by trauma, bipolar disorder, and alcoholism. He’s lost contact with Elena over the years and returned to San Juan to wrestle his demons alone. Then Hurricane Maria strikes, and Santiago vanishes. Desperate to know what happened to the father she once adored, Elena returns to Puerto Rico, a place she loved as a child but hasn’t seen in years. There she must unravel the truth about who her father is, crisscrossing the storm-swept island and reaching deep into his family tree to find relatives she’s never met, each of whom seems to possess a clue about Santiago’s fate. A compelling mystery unfolds, as Elena is reunited with family, and with a place she loved and lost—the island of Puerto Rico, which is itself a character in this book. It’s a story of connection, migration, striving, love, and loss, illuminated by humor and affection, written by a novelist at the height of her gifts.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/552623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strictly Between Us Author: Jane Fallon Narrator: Natasha Little Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 27 minutes Release date: August 4, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Rumours, secrets and lies. It's all in a day's work. Tamsin and her best friend Michelle have been inseparable since they were teenagers. Even now they spend all their time together, along with Patrick, Michelle's handsome husband. So when Tamsin hears a rumour that Patrick is having an affair, she is furious. Unwilling to ignore it, Tamsin plots a scheme to catch Patrick in the act, using her assistant Bea as live-bait. It should be fool proof. After all, Tamsin can trust Bea with anything. From her daily coffee order to fetching her dry-cleaning, writing reports and doing all the filing - Bea does everything with a smile on her face. Except Tamsin never considered Bea might have her own agenda. And if she does, then Tamsin really needs to watch her back . . . Praise for Strictly Between Us 'I raced through this beautifully written, thoughtful and exciting story, alternately cringing and cheering as things veer further off-piste after nail-biting moments I defy anyone to predict. I didn't like it, I loved it' Daily Mail 'A smart, edgy and cautionary tale of friendship and fidelity' Sunday Mirror 'A deliciously edgy read full of double-dealings and divided loyalties' Good Housekeeping 'A fast-moving, clever and genuinely funny story filled with twists and turns' Closer 'Sassy, sharply observed' Woman & Home 'Fallon's characterisation is always spot-on and this book is no different, with well-drawn out characters and a tight plot that barrels along towards a brilliant climax' Press Association 'Sparkling and unpredictable' Elle 'Chick lit with an edge' Guardian 'A hilarious read' Bella 'Absorbing, entertaining and spiky tale full of twists, turns and ruthless double crossing' Daily Express 'A clever book that makes you laugh, makes you angry - and makes you wonder whose side you would take if it happened to you . . .' Woman 'I love Fallon, she's in a category all of her own - her books are great fun and her characters are fabulous, believable women who take no nonsense. The plot is so juicy: it's about trapping a cheating man and it's told from the points of view of two women who were friends, but one of them has developed an agenda all of her own. It's fun, clever, warm and utterly un-putdownable' Marian Keyes, Daily Mail 'A fast-moving, clever and genuinely funny story filled with twists and turns' Closer 'Queen of chick lit Jane Fallon brings us another gripping novel of friendship, deceit and drama. She is at her edgy and entertaining best - definitely one to be passed around your girl squad!' OK Magazine © Jane Fallon 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551259 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Thank You For Listening: A Novel Author: Julia Whelan Narrator: Julia Whelan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 15 minutes Release date: August 2, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.94 of Total 235 Ratings of Narrator: 4.84 of Total 37 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the author of My Oxford Year, Julia Whelan’s uplifting novel tells the story of a former actress turned successful audiobook narrator—who has lost sight of her dreams after a tragic accident—and her journey of self-discovery, love, and acceptance when she agrees to narrate one last romance novel. For Sewanee Chester, being an audiobook narrator is a long way from her old dreams, but the days of being a star on film sets are long behind her. She’s found success and satisfaction from the inside of a sound booth and it allows her to care for her beloved, ailing grandmother. When she arrives in Las Vegas last-minute for a book convention, Sewanee unexpectedly spends a whirlwind night with a charming stranger.  On her return home, Sewanee discovers one of the world’s most beloved romance novelists wanted her to perform her last book—with Brock McNight, the industry’s hottest, most secretive voice. Sewanee doesn’t buy what romance novels are selling—not after her own dreams were tragically cut short—and she stopped narrating them years ago. But her admiration of the late author, and the opportunity to get her grandmother more help, makes her decision for her.  As Sewanee begins work on the book, resurrecting her old romance pseudonym, she and Brock forge a real connection, hidden behind the comfort of anonymity. Soon, she is dreaming again, but secrets are revealed, and the realities of life come crashing down around her once more. If she can learn to risk everything for desires she has long buried, she will discover a world of intimacy and acceptance she never believed would be hers.