#AudiobookReview – Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate #LoveAudio

Goodreads Blurb "Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shanty-boat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge, until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into …

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#AudioBookReview – The Hourglass by Tracy Rees #20BooksofSummer #BookBumBookClub #FavouriteReads #PerfectSummerRead #LoveAudio

Goodreads blurb: "2014. Sensible Nora has always taken success for granted, until suddenly her life begins to fall apart. Troubled by anxiety and nightmares, she finds herself drawn to the sweeping beaches of Tenby, a place she's only been once before. Together with a local girl she rents a beautiful townhouse and slowly begins to …

#AudiobookReview – A Very English Scandal by John Preston narrated by Daniel Weyman #LoveAudio

Goodreads blurb: In 1979, Jeremy Thorpe, the rising star of the Liberal Party, stood trial for conspiracy to murder. It was the first time that a leading British politician had stood trial on a murder charge. It was the first time that a murder plot had been hatched in the House of Commons. And it …

#AudiobookReview – If Only They Didn’t Speak English by Jon Sopel #LoveAudio #AudiobookMonth

Goodreads blurb: As the BBC's North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. In the 18 months it's taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock to leader of the free world, Jon has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, experiencing it from a perspective …

#AudiobookReview – A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens narrated by Martin Jarvis

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; so the recording begins and ends with some of Dickens's best-known words, and between those lines is every Briton's view of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the audiobook tells the …

#AudiobookReview – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel #BookBumBookClub

What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the same again. Twenty …

#AudiobookReview – Another Woman’s Husband by Gill Paul

Two women, divided by time, bound by a secret... 1911. Aged just fifteen, Mary Kirk and Wallis Warfield meet at summer camp. Their friendship will survive heartbreaks, continents, and the demands of the English crown, until it is shattered by one unforgivable betrayal... 1997. Rachel's romantic break in Paris with her fiancé is interrupted when …