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How Strange a Season: Fiction by Megan Mayhew Bergman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/360998 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/360998] to listen full audiobooks. Title: How Strange a Season: Fiction Author: Megan Mayhew Bergman Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 45 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Dazzling.” —The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice “Richly satisfying.” —The Wall Street Journal “These are stories you want to live in…a collection perfectly suited for our moment.” —Booklist (starred review) A collection of stories “so beautifully crafted they feel like tiny worlds unto themselves” (Los Angeles Times) about women experiencing all life’s beauty and challenges, from award-winning writer Megan Mayhew Bergman. A recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with rare flowers to establish control over a small world and attempt to heal her broken heart. A competitive swimmer negotiates over which days she will fulfill her wifely duties, and which days she will keep for herself. A peach farmer wonders if her orchard will survive a drought. And generations of a family in South Carolina struggle with fidelity and their cruel past, some clinging to old ways and others painfully carving new paths. In this “closely observed” (The New Yorker) collection, Megan Mayhew Bergman portrays women who wrestle with problematic inheritances: a modern glass house on a treacherous California cliff, a water-starved ranch, and an abandoned plantation on a river near Charleston. “Bergman’s stories are so emotionally rich that they serve as portals into distinct interior worlds...this collection is distinct and vivid...As singular as it is atmospheric” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

The Summer We Ran Away by Jenny Oliver

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359731 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/359731] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Summer We Ran Away Author: Jenny Oliver Narrator: Rosie Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: June 11, 2020 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A moment of madness. A summer of a lifetime. ‘Pure escapism’ Bella ‘Hilarious and relatable’ Woman ‘A story of friendship and laughter’ My Weekly It was meant to be the party of the summer… In Cedar Road, everyone is preparing for Lexi’s ‘White Hot’ summer party. For one night, parking squabbles and petitions are put aside as neighbours sip Prosecco under the fairy lights and gather by the hot tub to marvel at Lexi’s effortlessly glamorous life with Hot Hamish. For Julia, it’s a chance to coax husband Charlie out of his potting shed and into a shirt so they can have a welcome break from the hellish house renovation they’ve been wrestling with. And it’s a chance for Julia to pretend – just for a night – that her life is as perfect as Lexi’s. But when, during the party, one of Julia’s WhatsApp messages falls into the wrong hands and reveals her most intimate thoughts, things reach boiling point… And when all the neighbours know exactly what you’re thinking, there’s only one thing to do. Run away. It’s going to be a summer Julia will never forget… Warm, funny, and feel-good, The Summer We Ran Away is the ideal uplifting read for fans of Veronica Henry, Milly Johnson, and Carole Matthews. Praise for The Summer We Ran Away: ‘Pure escapism’ Bella ‘Hilarious and relatable’ Woman ‘A story of friendship and laughter’ My Weekly Praise for Jenny Oliver: ‘You know you’re in for a treat when you open a Jenny Oliver book’ Debbie Johnson, award-winning and bestselling author ‘Made me want to fly to Spain and dance on the beach with a glass of sangria in my hand. The perfect summer read’ Sarah Morgan, Sunday Times bestelling author ‘Brilliantly written … packed full of humour and there is a wonderful thread of love’ The Sun ‘Heart-warming, funny and wonderfully observed’ Fiona Harper, bestselling author ‘Dramatic and fun!’ My Weekly ‘Jenny Oliver does a brilliant job’ Woman

Three Wishes: A Novel by Liane Moriarty

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/365782 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/365782] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Wishes: A Novel Author: Liane Moriarty Narrator: Heather Wilds Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 32 minutes Release date: February 4, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 28 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 6 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Moriarty’s first novel, written with wisdom, humor, and sincerity, is an honest look at sisters who have a bond stronger than anything life throws their way.” — Booklist The funny, heartwarming, and completely charming first novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Nine Perfect Strangers and Big Little Lies.     Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle, beautiful thirty-three-year-old triplets, seem to attract attention everywhere they go. Together, laughter, drama, and mayhem follow them, but apart, each is dealing with her own share of ups and downs.   Lyn has organized her life into one big checklist, Cat has just learned a startling secret about her marriage, and Gemma, who bolts every time a relationship hits the six-month mark, holds out hope for lasting love.  In this wise, witty, and hilarious novel, we follow the Kettle sisters through their tumultuous thirty-third year as they deal with sibling rivalry and secrets, revelations and relationships, unfaithful husbands and unthinkable decisions, and the fabulous, frustrating life of forever being part of a trio.

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird: A gorgeously romantic love story for anyone who has ever thought ‘What If?’ by Josie Silver

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/364885 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/364885] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Two Lives of Lydia Bird: A gorgeously romantic love story for anyone who has ever thought ‘What If?’ Author: Josie Silver Narrator: Olivia Vinall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 51 minutes Release date: January 30, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. THE NEXT CAPTIVATING NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ONE DAY IN DECEMBER Two Lives. Two Loves. One Impossible Choice. Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They've been together for almost a decade, and Lydia thinks their love is indestructible. But she's wrong. Because on her 27th birthday, Freddie dies in a tragic accident. So now it's just Lydia, and all she wants to do is hide indoors and sob 'til her eyes fall out. But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to live her life well. So, enlisting the help of his best friend and her sister Elle, she takes her first tentative steps into the world and starts to live - perhaps even to love - again. Then something unbelievable happens, and Lydia gets another chance at her old life with Freddie. But what if there's someone in her new life who wants her to stay? A heart-breaking, uplifting story for fans of PS I Love You and Jojo Moyes, this gorgeously romantic novel will make you laugh, cry and remind you of what a wonderful gift it is to love and to be loved. © Josie Silver 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Mirror, Mirror by Paula Byrne

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/365855 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/365855] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Mirror, Mirror Author: Paula Byrne Narrator: Joyce Springer, Christopher Oxford Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 25 minutes Release date: January 23, 2020 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ‘Hollywood, we’re reminded, is after all a through-the-looking glass world, and Byrne writes authoritatively about its illusions and obscene, glittering excess … Compelling’ Daily Mail ‘Both eye-poppingly fun and thought-provoking’ The Times Madou is the most beautiful woman in the world. Discovered in a Berlin cabaret in the roaring twenties, she is brought to the glamour of Los Angeles. She becomes a superstar of the silver screen and Hollywood’s darling, but nothing perfect lasts forever. The cost of beauty is always high, for those who have it and those who live in its shadow. The weight falls on her daughter to untangle the complicated truths of being ordinary beside an extraordinary mother, a woman who has bent and broken and skewed her perception of reality, a woman adored by the world, but from whom her daughter longs to escape. Evocative and deeply moving, Mirror, Mirror is based on Marlene Dietrich’s glittering life, a dramatic novel set in Hollywood’s golden age, that tells the story of mothers and daughters and of time’s war against beauty – and the unbearable pain of a woman when beauty is the only game in town.