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A Dry Spell
- Narrated by: Emma Noakes
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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A Dry Spell
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
From the highly acclaimed author of Small Pleasures - longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
In 1976, four students took a trip to the desert. Now the repercussions of that fateful summer are coming back to haunt them....
And repercussions are just what Guy doesn't need: his wife, Jane, is moving swiftly from slightly eccentric to downright peculiar, their three-year-old daughter seems set on destroying Jane's sanity, and now even God's gone quiet on him.
As for Nina, she's having enough trouble with her son, James. He's got exams looming, a new girlfriend with pneumatic breasts, and now, it seems, he's on drugs. Nina certainly won't welcome any ghosts from the past.
Life isn't going smoothly for anyone. But when Hugo, long-forgotten agent of misfortune, threatens to pay them all a visit, disaster seems unavoidable.
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- dl obrien
- 11-08-24
Superb
Just brilliant an amazing story- poignant and witty with it- and very well narrated. Unmissable
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- Anonymous User
- 06-12-22
Running on empty by the end
After a promising start in which the author’s skill with character writing fleshes out a story with multiple strands very well, further developments begin to lose energy.
As the central characters go through a pivotal interlude in a desert region in Africa some twenty years before the main narrative is set, a sort of lassitude seems to afflict them and also the book. By the perfunctory end even the author seems to have lost some interest in her people.
Chambers writes with her usual amused humanism but, although superbly performed by a cast of one, this is not the author’s best work.
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- Sam N
- 05-11-22
Great
A bit slow to start but really glad I stuck with it. Brilliant characters. Gentle pace. Really enjoyed it.
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- Jodie Warrington
- 04-01-23
not her best
Not as engaging as her other books. Narrator was fine except for her South African accent qhoch annoyed me.
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- Victoria T
- 25-11-21
Waste of a credit
Really dull disappointing book. Cringey accents by narrator too. I don't understand why so many narrators on audible are so bad.
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