Bridget Cordy
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What We Fear Most
- A Psychiatrist’s Journey to the Heart of Madness / BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
- By: Dr Ben Cave
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 280
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 262
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Story5 out of 5 stars 262
Meet Dr Ben Cave. For over thirty years he has worked in prisons and secure hospitals diagnosing and treating some of the most troubled men and women in society. A lifetime of care takes us from delusional disorders to schizophrenia, steroid abuse to drug dependency, personality disorders to paedophilia, and depression so severe a mother can kill her own baby. These are the human stories behind the headlines. The reality of a life spent working with patients with the severest mental health disorders. The tragic and often frightening truth about what happens behind closed doors.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It was the name Dr Ben Cave that appealed…
- By Sarah Rayner, author on 19-04-23
- What We Fear Most
- A Psychiatrist’s Journey to the Heart of Madness / BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
- By: Dr Ben Cave
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
Unusual insight with empathy and humour
Reviewed: 22-10-23
A brilliant performance about an extraordinary career - intrigue, empathy, horror and humour all wonderfully combined in a smooth storytelling. Beautifully written although it got a bit dark midway, then he brings you back to the light. We all have light and darkness. That, I guess, is life.
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The Handmaid's Tale
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Amy Landecker, Ann Dowd, Bradley Whitford, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,833
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,953
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,935
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of 21st-century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top 5 this year!
- By Anonymous User on 08-05-23
- The Handmaid's Tale
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Amy Landecker, Ann Dowd, Bradley Whitford, Elisabeth Moss
Excellent & thought-provoking book, beautifully read
Reviewed: 12-09-19
Beautifully read, this story was absorbing from the start and gradually more detail is revealed about life in Gilead. The main character of Offred was incredibly well drawn, as were all the main characters - a real blend of good and weak. Lots of political, religious and sexism threads to debate but overall a great story to keep you hooked to one of the best endings I’ve heard/read in a long time. Atwood shows how precarious our political culture and way of life is. Highly recommended and I’m looking forward to the sequel.
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Becoming
- By: Michelle Obama
- Narrated by: Michelle Obama
- Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 34,179
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 29,691
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Story5 out of 5 stars 29,581
In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites listeners into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her - from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it - in her own words and on her own terms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audio better than print
- By Fersh on 03-12-18
- Becoming
- By: Michelle Obama
- Narrated by: Michelle Obama
Inspirational
Reviewed: 17-02-19
I have to say the prospect of 19 hours in this audiobook was a bit off putting but once I succumbed to Michelle Obama’s mesmerising reading voice within the first couple of chapters I was captivated. She gives a lot of details about every stage of her life so that by the end, I felt she and I were friends having a chat. A brilliant autobiography from the woman of our times.
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All the Light We Cannot See
- By: Anthony Doerr
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,773
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,409
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,400
Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighbourhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorise it with her fingers and navigate the real streets with her feet and cane. When the Germans occupy Paris, father and daughter flee to Saint-Malo on the Brittany coast, where Marie-Laure's agoraphobic great uncle lives in a tall, narrow house by the sea wall.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Despite the narrator
- By JF7588 on 06-02-15
- All the Light We Cannot See
- By: Anthony Doerr
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
Faultless
Reviewed: 27-05-16
Completely mesmerising from start to finish, wonderful performance and outstanding story. Just listen, like Marie-Laure did.
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