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Wives Like Us: A Novel by Plum Sykes

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616332 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/616332] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wives Like Us: A Novel Author: Plum Sykes Narrator: Annabel Mullion Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 14, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: “Wives Like Us made me laugh so hard I actually knocked over my lamp. Can a book be so wickedly smart, so effortless, so chic and hilarious that you would stumble through the night to find a new lightbulb just so you can keep reading way past your bedtime? In a word, yes.'' —Kevin Kwan Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcee, three rich wives, two tycoons, a pair of miniature sausage dogs and one (bereaved) butler; put them all into the blender and out comes the impossibly funny Wives Like Us, the new novel from the best-selling author of Bergdorf Blondes and Party Girls Die In Pearls, Plum Sykes. If you think the English countryside is all green wellies, muddy Land Rovers and grey-haired ladies in tweed, then you’ve never visited ‘The Bottoms.’ Welcome to the rose-strewn county of Oxfordshire, and the tony Cotswold villages of Little Bottom, Middle Bottom, Great Bottom, and Monkton Bottom, recently annexed by a glittering new breed of female: the Country Princess.  Following a ghastly row about a missing suite of diamonds, Tata Hawkins has flounced out of Monkton Bottom Manor with her daughter, Minty, and Executive Butler Ian Palmer in tow, decamping to The Old Coach House to teach her husband Bryan a lesson. But things don’t go to plan: Bryan disappears to Venice with a bikini designer; Selby Fairfax, the glamorous American divorcée who has inherited the beautiful estate next door, is refusing Tata’s overtures at friendship; Tata’s best friends, Sophie Thompson and Fernanda Ovington-Williams, are distracted by their own heartache, and the posh Pennybacker-Hoare sisters are plotting to prevent Tata regaining her crown as Queen of the Bottoms. Worst of all, Ian has nowhere to store his collection of vintage Gucci loafers. Will Tata ever return to the comforts of the Manor? Will Selby find her Prince Charming? Will the Pennybacker-Hoares prevail? With the help of a pig farmer-ess moonlighting as a Personal Assistant, a male model moonlighting as a stable hand and a London barrister moonlighting as a gentleman farmer, can Ian restore harmony to The Bottoms?

The Mother Act by Heidi Reimer

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614649 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614649] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mother Act Author: Heidi Reimer Narrator: Beth Hicks, Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 18 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: 'Propulsive and affecting.... This is worthy of a standing ovation.' —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Set against the sparkling backdrop of the theater world, this propulsive debut follows the relationship between an actress who refuses to abandon her career and the daughter she chooses to abandon instead. Sadie Jones, a larger-than-life actress and controversial feminist, never wanted to be a mother. No one feels this more deeply than Jude, the daughter Sadie left behind. While Jude spent her childhood touring with her father’s Shakespearian theater company, desperate for validation from the mother she barely knew, Sadie catapulted to fame on the wings of The Mother Act—a scathing one-woman show about motherhood. Two decades later, Jude is a talented actress in her own right, and her fraught relationship with Sadie has come to a scandalous head. On a December evening in New York City, at the packed premiere of Sadie’s latest play, the two come face-to-face and the intertwined stories of their lives unfold—colorfully and dramatically. What emerges is a picture of two very different women navigating the complicated worlds of career, love, and family, all while grappling with the essential question: can they ever really understand each other? Compelling, insightful, and cleverly conveyed as a play in six acts, The Mother Act is a stylish page-turner that looks at what it means to be a devoted mother and a devoted artist—and whether it is possible to be both.

The House on Rye Lane by Susan Allott

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614313 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614313] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The House on Rye Lane Author: Susan Allott Narrator: Coral Sinclair, Tom Babbage, Tim Bruce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 57 minutes Release date: January 18, 2024 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ‘Beautifully written and entirely gripping’ CHRIS WHITAKER ‘An evocative, haunting literary thriller’ ERIN KELLY 'A terrific spine chiller’ TELEGRAPH 'A sinister tale, beautifully told' THE SUN They thought they’d found their dream home. They were wrong. Maxine has bought a huge Georgian townhouse on the edge of Peckham Rye – but already the doubts are creeping in. Why are the neighbours so evasive about the previous owner’s death? Is her partner Seb all he seems to be? And are there more secrets hiding in this house’s dark corners? The House on Rye Lane is a tense, taut, utterly unnerving novel about the many ways the crimes of the past can haunt the present.

A Midlife Holiday by Cary J. Hansson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614274 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/614274] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Midlife Holiday Series: #1 of The Midlife Series Author: Cary J. Hansson Narrator: Lisa Armytage Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 11 minutes Release date: September 19, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: A wonderfully witty and heart-warmingly honest story about female friendship. 'Heart-warming, heart-breaking and hilarious.' Reader review 'Shirley Valentine meets Bridget Jones.' Cup Full of Books Meet Helen She worries the walls are closing in. With her children grown and her selfish husband away again, she's full of regrets at not taking the exciting paths she dreamed about in her youth. So when the chance of a last-minute holiday to Cyprus with her two best friends is offered, she grabs it. Meet Caro A successful career woman, she's not in Cyprus for the glorious sunshine and crystal-blue waters. But her secret feels so shameful, she can't bring herself to share it. Meet Kay Sandwiched between the needs of a grown-up son with learning difficulties, and elderly parents, all she wants to do is sleep in the sun, preferably all week. As Caro's secret emerges, tensions between the women explode Friendship was easy when they were young, how can it be so hard now? A Midlife Holiday is the affirming first tale in The Midlife Trilogy Funny, emotional and compassionate, Cary J Hansson shows us why middle-aged women are only just getting started! Prepare to meet three new friends you'll feel you have known all your life.

The Details: A Novel by Ia Genberg

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620449 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/620449] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Details: A Novel Author: Ia Genberg Narrator: Julie Maisey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 8, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: Featured in The New Yorker's ''Best Books of 2023'' *Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize ''The literal fever that begins the book mirrors the feverish beginnings and endings of these relationships, as well as the fever of reading — how it forces the reader inward, then leaves an invisible imprint in its wake. Genberg’s marvelous prose is also a kind of fever, mesmerizing and hot to the touch.” -The New York Times Book Review An intoxicating novel in the vein of Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti, about a woman in the throes of a fever remembering the important people in her past, her memories laid bare in vivid detail as her body temperature rises. A woman lies bedridden from a high fever. Suddenly she is struck with an urge to revisit a novel from her past. Inside the book is an inscription: a get-well-soon message from Johanna, an ex-girlfriend who is now a famous television host. As she flips through the book, pages from the woman’s own past begin to come alive, scenes of events and people she cannot forget. There are moments with Johanna, and Niki, the friend who disappeared years ago without a phone number or an address and with no online footprint. There is Alejandro, who appears like a storm in precisely the right moment. And Brigitte, whose elusive qualities mask a painful secret. The Details is a novel built around four portraits; the small details that, pieced together, comprise a life. Can a loved one really disappear? Who is the real subject of the portrait, the person being painted or the one holding the brush? Do we fully become ourselves through our connections to others? This exhilarating, provocative tale raises profound questions about the nature of relationships, and how we tell our stories. The result is an intimate and illuminating study of what it means to be human.