Catherine Clarke
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If I Should Lose You
- By: Natasha Lester
- Narrated by: Casey Withoos
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
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Camille is a nurse specialising in supporting families through the difficult decision to donate the organs of their dying loved ones. Camille's mother is a gifted but uncompromising transplant surgeon determined to make it in a man's world until her own life falls apart. And Camille herself is a mother to Addie–five years old, critically ill and in desperate need of the very organs her mother and grandmother work with.
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Relatable, gripping
- By Catherine Clarke on 13-04-2024
- If I Should Lose You
- By: Natasha Lester
- Narrated by: Casey Withoos
Relatable, gripping
Reviewed: 13-04-2024
I couldn’t stop listening to this story, it spoke to the mother in me. The narrator is beautiful to listen to.
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Supporting Autistic Girls and Gender Diverse Youth
- By: Yellow Ladybugs
- Narrated by: Katie Koullas, Emmanuelle Mattana
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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This book masterfully blends what you must know, what you need to know, and what you should know, all the while gently walking you down the path towards a more neuro-affirming and inclusive approach to home and school life. You will finish listening with a better understanding of autistic identity, culture and how you can help shape a better future for the ladybug in your life.
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Realistic
- By Anonymous User on 02-08-2024
I felt seen!
Reviewed: 24-01-2024
It’s so hard to know if you’re doing the right thing as a parent of two amazing little ladybugs. This book is empowering and understanding and supportive and just awesome. Thank you!
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The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
- By: Holly Ringland
- Narrated by: Emmanuelle Mattana
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
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The last time Esther Wilding's beloved older sister Aura was seen, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Aura's disappearance, Esther's family struggles to live with their loss. To seek the truth about her sister's death, Esther reluctantly travels from Lutruwita, Tasmania to Copenhagen, and then to the Faroe Islands, following the trail of the stories Aura left behind: seven fairy tales about selkies, swans and women, alongside cryptic verses Aura wrote and had secretly tattooed on her body.
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Lovely story of Love, loss and Grief
- By Anonymous User on 02-03-2024
- The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding
- By: Holly Ringland
- Narrated by: Emmanuelle Mattana
Captivating
Reviewed: 27-09-2023
This story is truly beautiful but at the same time dark in places. It covers the most difficult topics with compassion and empathy and I was with Esther every step of the way. Just mesmerising.
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The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
- By: Holly Ringland
- Narrated by: Louise Crawford
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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A young girl loses both her parents in a tragic event and is taken to live with her grandmother on a flower farm. Growing up, Alice learns the language of Australian native flowers as a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. But she also learns that there are secrets within secrets about her past. An unexpected betrayal leaves her reeling, and she escapes to try to make her own—sometimes painful—way through the world and to find her story.
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Disappointing
- By Simone on 06-08-2018
- The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
- By: Holly Ringland
- Narrated by: Louise Crawford
The beauty of heartache told through flowerS
Reviewed: 25-08-2023
I loved every minute of this book, the flowers spoke to me and the characters were so real I could almost touch them. I admire the fact that the author invented a fictions place in order to honour the First Nations people by not telling a story it a real place that was not hers to tell. Just beautiful.
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The Last Restaurant in Paris
- By: Lily Graham
- Narrated by: Polly Edsell
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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In enemy-occupied Paris, as the locals go to bed starving and defeated by the war, music and laughter spills through the door of a little restaurant, crowded with German soldiers. The owner, Marianne, moves on weary feet between its packed tables, carrying plates of steaming, wholesome food for the enemy officers. Her smile is bright and sparkling, her welcome cordial. Nobody would guess the hatred she hides in her heart. That night, the restaurant closes its doors for the final time.
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Food for thought
- By Catherine Clarke on 14-02-2023
- The Last Restaurant in Paris
- By: Lily Graham
- Narrated by: Polly Edsell
Food for thought
Reviewed: 14-02-2023
Captivating story, wonderful characters and clever plot twists in historically accurate scenes with proper respect to the people of the time.
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Spare
- By: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
- Narrated by: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
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It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the princes must be thinking and feeling - and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last.
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Harry’s story, Harry’s voice. Listen, and form your own opinion.
- By Josabrim on 10-01-2023
- Spare
- By: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
- Narrated by: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
Honest and heartfelt
Reviewed: 21-01-2023
Harry has been through so much, it was eye opening to hear just how much of what the media has presented over the years is wrong
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The Riviera House
- By: Natasha Lester
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
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Paris, 1939. While working at the Louvre, Éliane Dufort falls for talented painter Xavier. But when the Nazis occupy the city, Xavier leaves for England and Éliane must send her sisters to the country. Broken-hearted, she finds herself working with the mysterious Rose Valland on a dangerous secret mission for the French Resistance. Present Day. Desperate to escape her grief, Remy Lang arrives at a stunning private estate on the French Riviera. While working on her vintage fashion business, she discovers a catalogue of artworks stolen during World War II.
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Enjoyable listening
- By Lee on 03-11-2021
- The Riviera House
- By: Natasha Lester
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Brilliant
Reviewed: 23-12-2022
I loved this love story and the careful and accurate details about Nazi involvement in France. The characters drew me in and the ending gave me goosebumps.
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Her Mother's Secret
- By: Natasha Lester
- Narrated by: Edwina Wren
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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England, 1918. Armistice Day should bring peace into Leonora's life. Rather than secretly making cosmetics in her father's chemist shop to sell to army nurses such as Joan, her adventurous Australian friend, Leo hopes to now display her wares openly. Instead, Spanish flu arrives in the village, claiming her father's life. Determined to start over, she boards a ship to New York City. On the way she meets debonair department store heir Everett Forsyth....
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Stunning
- By davkat on 02-06-2017
- Her Mother's Secret
- By: Natasha Lester
- Narrated by: Edwina Wren
Captivating
Reviewed: 14-11-2022
Totally hooked me in with great twists and believable characters. Another great Natasha Lester novel.
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Where the Crawdads Sing
- By: Delia Owens
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved.
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Wonderful core story, but ultimately disappointing
- By Melle on 06-02-2020
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- By: Delia Owens
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Captivating
Reviewed: 27-07-2022
This book was truly captivating, it took me into a world I had never known full of people whom I got to know dearly. A wonderful story by an interesting author whose own life adventure has taken a few interesting turns if it’s own. A must read.
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Gallant
- By: V. E. Schwab
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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Sixteen-year-old Olivia Prior is missing three things: a mother, a father and a voice. Her mother vanished all at once, her father by degrees and her voice was a thing she never had to start with. She grew up at Merilance School for Girls. Now, nearing the end of her time there, Olivia receives a letter from an uncle she’s never met, her father’s older brother, summoning her to his estate, a place called Gallant. But when she arrives, she discovers that the letter she received was several years old. Her uncle is dead. The estate is empty save for the servants.
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So tedious!
- By Saraswati on 30-03-2022
- Gallant
- By: V. E. Schwab
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
Spellbinding
Reviewed: 03-04-2022
I was just hooked with this book. Captivated, I felt each emotion the characters felt and I drifted deeper and deeper into the concentric circles of this book.
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