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Title: The Emergence of Judy Taylor

Author: Angela Jackson

Narrator: Nicola Bryant

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-08-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

An Amazon Rising Star: a dazzling debut novel about first loves and second chances.

Judy Taylor married the first man who asked her. She lives in the neighbourhood where she spent her uneventful childhood. She still has the same friends she first met in primary school. But everything she once knew is about to be turned upside down. Judy might be ready to start a new life in vibrant Edinburgh, if she's prepared to accept what it means to change. First she has to ask herself if it's ever too late to make up for lost time. The Emergence of Judy Taylor is a story about love and life and sex and starlings. It's about Judy and Oliver and Paul and Fabiana and Rob and Min and Lily and Harry and a French siren called Isabella.

Angela Jackson was recently named one of UNESCO City of Literature's emerging writers. By day, she is a coach and a lecturer in psychology and education. She has written features for various newspapers including The Guardian and The Independent. The Emergence of Judy Taylor is her first novel.

Members Reviews:

Enjoyable

This is an author I have not read before, but will certainly be looking for more books by her. An enjoyable read!

The Emergence of Judy Taylor

Iâm always interested in fiction about people turning their lives upside down and I found this entertaining reading. Judy is married to Oliver â a successful solicitor â and she has a job as a lecturer in music. They have many friends and it would seem Judy has an enviable life. But something is not right for Judy and she canât put her finger on exactly what it is she just knows her life has become boring and she needs a change otherwise she is going to do something everyone may live to regret.

I think many people will at some time have experienced the urge to disappear without leaving a forwarding address â to just start again and ditch all the baggage. Most of us probably donât do anything as drastic as Judy did but I know I could empathise with her. I liked the writing style and I loved the humour and the marvellous characters. I could understand how Oliver felt as well and I thought the author put his side of the story very well too.

I loved the background of Edinburgh and the Festival in the second half of the book and I thought the author really evoked the atmosphere of the city in August. There are some marvellous characters too â Judy herself, Lily and Harry â and Iâm still smiling over some of the scenes twenty four hours after I finished reading them. Anyone who finds the average womenâs fiction too sentimental and slushy may enjoy this book.

Warm, funny, and true

I couldn't put this book down. It was funny, witty, heartbreaking and wise, and never once cloying or sentimental. It is steely-eyed and sympathetic at the same time. Angela Jackson is a generous writer, and her warm and captivating prose engages and enfolds the reader.

The Emergence of Judy Taylor is true. Not as in, it's a true story, but true as in capturing the essence of a particular kind of awakening--and its aftermath. It describes, in a very real way, what it's like to discover one's true self after years of unquestioning complacence, of absence. It's not about finding true love, or perfect happiness. It's not even about second chances. It's about waking up one morning, realizing you've been sleepwalking through your life, and really, truly waking up.