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The Café on Manor Lane by Amelia Kyazze

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629246 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/629246] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Café on Manor Lane Author: Amelia Kyazze Narrator: Jane Ajia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 5 minutes Release date: August 9, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A stranger can change your life in a moment of kindness 1952: Bella is a young French Jew in post-war London, having lost everything in WWII. When she meets Adebayo, a doctor from Nigeria, Archibald's Café is the only place they feel like they belong. 1977: With London tense with anger, Amara decides to take action. 2010: Gina is a daydreaming artist whose efforts crumble into disaster. Her hopes for a career are over as she finds herself making lattes at the café where her grandparents went on their first date. Across the lives of three generations of women, London can be a harsh and beautiful place. Yet, chance friendships hold people together, when the world feels like it is falling apart. Fans of Clare Pooley and Freya Sampson will love The Café on Manor Lane ‘A powerful story of hope, community and friendship… a real love letter to London’ Katie Lumsdon, author of The Secrets of Hartwood Hall ‘A beautiful story about the power of community and friendships’ Eleanor Goymer, author of The Fallback ‘A heartwarming and necessary story to make you fall in love with London’ Eve Edwards, author of The Summer of Wishful Thinking ‘Amidst all the ugliness in the world…friendship, kindness, chosen family and community can heal’ Tina Baker, author of What We Did in the Storm ‘THIS BOOK GIVES ME HOPE! It was so beautiful and so powerful! The impact of community in this book is amazing!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The story and situation is very unique… all elements of this book are done extremely well. I adored it!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A fun sweet read! Highly recommend’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The setting was beautifully done… I found the characters interesting and engaging and could only ask for more’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘The author found the beautiful in the everyday and created a rich narrative firmly rooted in Lewisham’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A heartwarming tale of community, love, and new beginnings. Charming characters and a cozy setting make it an enchanting, feel-good read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Year of Return by Ivana Akotowaa Ofori

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630326 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/630326] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Year of Return Author: Ivana Akotowaa Ofori Narrator: Anniwaa Buachie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 21, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A Ghanaian journalist based in the US returns to Ghana with a few friends for the holidays in December 2019. That month is meant to be the climax of the Ghanaian government’s year-long 'Year of Return' initiative, commemorating 400 years since the first slaves from West Africa arrived in Virginia.'The Year of Return' takes on a whole new meaning when large numbers of ghosts—formerly enslaved Africans who drowned during the Middle Passage—emerge from the Atlantic Ocean, leading to months of global pandemonium, and a chilling conclusion.

How to Read a Book: A Novel by Monica Wood

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622321 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622321] to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Read a Book: A Novel Author: Monica Wood Narrator: Eileen Stevens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: May 7, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.83 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ''The perfect pick to really light a fire under my book club, and yours....A reminder that goodness, and books, can still win in this world.'' —New York Times Book Review ''A beautiful, big-hearted treasure of a novel.'' —Lily King National Bestseller * From the award-winning author of The One-in-a-Million Boy comes a heartfelt, uplifting novel about a chance encounter at a bookstore, exploring redemption, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing power of sharing stories. Our Reasons meet us in the morning and whisper to us at night. Mine is an innocent, unsuspecting, eternally sixty-one-year-old woman named Lorraine Daigle… Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn’t yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed. When the three encounter each other one morning in a bookstore in Portland—Violet to buy the novel she was reading in the prison book club before her release, Harriet to choose the next title for the women who remain, and Frank to dispatch his duties as the store handyman—their lives begin to intersect in transformative ways. How to Read a Book is an unsparingly honest and profoundly hopeful story about letting go of guilt, seizing second chances, and the power of books to change our lives. With the heart, wit, grace, and depth of understanding that has characterized her work, Monica Wood illuminates the decisions that define a life and the kindnesses that make life worth living.  ''A deeply humane and touching novel; highly recommended for book clubs and fans of Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures.'' — Booklist

Relative Strangers by A.H. Kim

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622046 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622046] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Relative Strangers Author: A.H. Kim Narrator: Joy Osmanski Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 10 minutes Release date: April 2, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: From the acclaimed author of A Good Family comes a timely spin on Sense and Sensibility, a twenty-first-century family drama featuring two half-Korean sisters, their ex-hippie mother, multiple messy love affairs and one explosive secret that could ruin everything. Amelia Bae-Wood’s life is falling apart. Unemployed, newly single and completely broke—for reasons she hasn’t told anyone yet—she finds herself hitchhiking across California to deal with the fallout of her mother’s eviction from the family estate. Amelia needs somewhere to live and time to figure out what to do with the rest of her life, so moving with her mother and sister to Arcadia, the cancer retreat center where her sister volunteers, seems like as good an idea as any. Amelia’s sister, Eleanor, has too much on her plate, including being caught up in a court battle with a man who claims to be their half brother from Seoul and their late father’s only son—a secret love child from his Korean youth—who’s fighting for a piece of everything that belongs to the Bae-Wood women. And when Amelia adds herself to Eleanor’s list of problems, Eleanor must figure out what to hold on to—and when to let go—before things starts to unravel. A witty, wry and enormously entertaining retelling, the sisters’ journey of self-discovery as they reshape their lives gives this classic tale a modern, feminist twist, as it touches on themes of blended families, race, class and wealth.

Nuclear Family by Kate Davies

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622307 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/622307] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nuclear Family Author: Kate Davies Narrator: Olivia Darnley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 15, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ‘Funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real’ SARAH WATERS ‘Rambunctiously funny’ THE TIMES, Book of the Month 'I can’t think of another author who can make me ricochet so quickly from painful empathy to helpless laughter' ERIN KELLY FROM THE POLARI PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF IN AT THE DEEP END Who do you choose when the cracks begin to show? When Lena buys DNA testing kits for her father Tom and twin sister Alison, she has no idea the gift will blow her family apart. Tom, forced to admit that he isn’t his daughters’ biological father, is terrified they will reject him. Alison, trying to start a family with her wife, doesn’t think DNA should make a difference. But Lena is obsessed with tracking down their biological father – and soon discovers they have a famous half-brother. Then she becomes obsessed with him, too… From the Polari Prize-winning author of In at the Deep End, this is a hilarious and deeply moving novel about what it means to be a family. READERS ARE LOVING NUCLEAR FAMILY 'I raced through it over a 24-hour period' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I loved the mix of humour, warmth and empathy. It's such an insightful book that really got me thinking' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Davies writes fearlessly and movingly – I felt as though I was reading about family friends. A brilliant read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I chuckled, laughed, and cried… People are alive and breathing on the pages of this book. Please read it and enjoy' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Laugh-out-loud funny… A delight!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐