The Funeral Cryer: A Novel by Wenyan Lu

Into the Storm by Cecelia Ahern

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692685 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692685] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Into the Storm Author: Cecelia Ahern Narrator: Angeline Ball Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 49 minutes Release date: October 10, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A storm lies ahead of her. Freedom lies beyond it … ‘Such a brilliant writer and this was another 5 star book for me’ Reader Review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Hugely immersive and emotional’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘An emotional mystery that will grip you so tight that you can't breathe’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘She is the master of creating real, flawed, magnetic characters’ Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ONE NIGHT It is a wild night in the middle of December, and GP Enya is crouched over a teenage boy, performing CPR in the rain. ONE MOMENT The boy survives, but Enya’s life splinters in two. Trapped in a loveless marriage, the storm propels her to break free. ONE CHANCE TO BE FREE But even in the remote country town that becomes her sanctuary, Enya is haunted by the night in the rain. Beneath the boughs of an ancient tree that tells a thousand stories, can she find the courage to face her own? 'A terrific story! It had me completely gripped from the very first page' KARIN SLAUGHTER ‘Outstanding… I simply couldn’t stop reading. One of the two or three best novels I’ve read this year and without question the best book I’ve ever read by Cecelia' JOHN BOYNE

Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good by Eley Williams

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684221 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684221] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good Author: Eley Williams Narrator: Kit Griffiths Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 6 minutes Release date: July 18, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: A Granta Best Young British Novelist 'A thrilling love for the stuff of language … Magical' JON McGREGOR ‘Poignant and playful’ DAILY MAIL ‘A writer with few real rivals’ IRISH TIMES 'A visionary writer' JAN CARSON The stunning new collection of stories from the award-winning author of The Liar’s Dictionary and Attrib. and Other Stories. Granta Best Young British novelist and acclaimed author of Attrib. and other stories, Eley Williams returns with a thrilling collection of short stories exploring the nature of relationships both intimate and transient – from the easy gamesmanship of contagious yawns to the horror of a smile fixed for just a second too long. A courtroom sketch artist delights in committing portraits of their lover to paper but their need to capture likenesses forever is revealed to have darker, more complex intentions. A child’s schoolyard crush on a saint marks a confrontation with the reality of a teenage body in flux. Elsewhere, an editor of canned laughter loses their confidence and seeks divine intervention, and an essayist annotates their thoughts on Keats by way of internet-gleaned sex tips. Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good hums with fossicking language and ingenious experiments in form and considers notions of playfulness, authenticity and care as it holds relationships to account: their sweet misunderstandings, soured reflections, queer wish fulfilments and shared, held breaths. ‘Undeniably a skilful book’ TELEGRAPH ‘Stories that work from the inside out… glancing, intriguing’ GUARDIAN 'Erudite and audacious' KEIRAN GODDARD ‘Frequently brilliant and deeply pleasurable’ CAOILINN HUGHES ‘I don’t know anyone else who can write like this … What a joy!' BEN PESTER ‘A joy for the head and the heart' RUBY COWLING

Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691758 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/691758] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Clean Author: Alia Trabucco Zerán Narrator: Silvana Kane Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 16 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A masterclass in suspense' PAULA HAWKINS ‘A spellbinding nightmare’ FERNANDA MELCHOR ‘A book of intense power’ PHILIPPE SANDS 'A compelling book, with a tightly coiled power' PANDORA SYKES The shockingly compulsive new literary thriller from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Remainder. Clean begins with an inescapable fact: a girl has died. Told by Estela, a maid to a wealthy, middle class family who speaks to us from a locked room, we hear of her plight and the circumstances that led to this moment. As we enter into her account of her daily existence, we see how her apparently simple life begins to sour, but would that drive her to the unthinkable? Disturbing and profound, Clean explores domestic work, class and violence, against the backdrop of Chile’s changing political landscape. This is one of the most daring and compelling thrillers in international literature. 'Uncomfortable and provocative … a chilling account' FINANCIAL TIMES 'I hardly paused for breath' ALICE SLATER, author of Death of a Bookseller 'Remarkable, gripping' SARAH BERNSTEIN, author of Study for Obedience 'Terrifying, explosive and exhilarating' KATIE KITAMURA, author of Intimacies ‘Beautifully written and profound’ LUCIE WHITEHOUSE, author of Last Witness

Evenings and Weekends by Oisín Mckenna

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/688286 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/688286] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Evenings and Weekends Author: Oisín Mckenna Narrator: Isabel Adomakoh Young Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 16 minutes Release date: May 9, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: 'I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN' SHON FAYE 'A MASTERPIECE. THIS SEARING TALE OF LOVE, SEX AND CLASS WILL RESONATE FOR GENERATIONS TO COME' OWEN JONES 'Electric and intimate' Guardian 'Impossibly, ineffably beautiful’ Russell T Davies 'Intoxicating' Irish Times This city stops for no-one. Not the half-naked boozers, stoners, and cruisers, the hen parties glugging from bejewelled bottles, the drag queens puffing on hurried fags. It’s June 2019 in London and everyone has converged on the parks, beer gardens and street corners to revel in the collective joys of being alive. Everyone but Maggie. She’s 30, pregnant and broke. Faced with moving back to the town she fought to escape, she’s wondering if having a baby with boyfriend Ed will be the last spontaneous act of her life. Ed, meanwhile, is trying to run from his past with Maggie’s best friend Phil and harbouring secret dreams of his own. Phil hates his office job and is living for the weekend, while falling for his housemate, Keith. But there’s a problem: Keith has a boyfriend and there might not be room for three people in the relationship. Then there’s Rosaleen, Phil’s mother, who’s tired of feeling like a side character in her own life. She’s just been diagnosed with cancer and is travelling to London to tell Phil, if she can ever get hold of him. As Saturday night approaches, all their lives are set to change forever. It’s the hottest summer on record and the weekend is about to begin… What readers are saying… 'I’ve had a week long book hangover. Read it!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A book I will carry with me in my heart' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The best book I've read in recent years' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'My life got just a bit richer from having read this book' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I absolutely loved it, every word' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Funeral Cryer: A Novel by Wenyan Lu

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685030 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/685030] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Funeral Cryer: A Novel Author: Wenyan Lu Narrator: Helen Crevel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman’s midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China, for fans of Yiyun Li and Julie Otsuka. The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't be bleaker, she takes a leap of faith—and in so doing, things start to take a surprising turn for the better. Dark, moving and wry, The Funeral Cryer is both an illuminating depiction of a “left behind” society—and proof that it's never too late to change your life.