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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525014 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unbound Justice: The Australian Sandstone Series -Book1 Author: Michael Beashel Narrator: Michael Beashel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 27, 2024 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Romance, revenge, reckoning in this mid 19c Australian Historical fiction novel. John Leary boards ship in Ireland in 1850, a young carpenter ambitious for a new life in Australia. He sails with revenge in his heart—his beloved sister has been raped by her landlord, William Baxterhouse, who escapes on another ship with even grander plans for success in New South Wales. In Sydney, hard workers like Leary and ruthless newcomers like Baxterhouse find a city fired by the Gold Rush and dedicated to creating the finest buildings in the colony. Leary has a double motive to make his construction company succeed: he has fallen in love with the beautiful Clarissa McGuire, whose family despise him, and Baxterhouse continues to rise in wealth and influence, seemingly untouchable. Meanwhile another woman, Beth O’Hare, is in love with John Leary, and he makes some hard choices—including a climactic showdown with Baxterhouse. This is the first novel in The Australian Sandstone Series: an international best seller and a new, magnificent view of nineteenth-century Sydney from the ground up.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526872 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Falcon Queen Series: #2 of Norsewomen Author: Johanna Wittenberg Narrator: Amy Landon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 25 minutes Release date: January 17, 2023 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Ninth-century Norway, the island of Tromøy. Åsa has won back her father's kingdom, but can she hold it? The evil shapeshifter Hrolf lurks in the hinterlands, plotting revenge. The powerful Danes threaten from across the Skagerrak Sea, demanding marriage in exchange for peace, while her only ally, Olaf, presses his own suit. Though she loves Olaf, Åsa refuses to sacrifice her position and her people's welfare to become any man's property. Then, across the snow-clad mountains comes Ragnhild, a runaway shield-maiden, seeking glory and gold. She seems to be the answer to Åsa's prayers, but Ragnhild's past catches up with her, bringing treachery and war. Contains mature themes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530744 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Latchkey Kid Author: Helen Forrester Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s gripping fiction continues to move readers. Olga Stych has focused all of her efforts on climbing to the top of the social pyramid, letting her son Hank fall by the wayside as she rose. As she works to retain her position, her strained relationship with Hank will prove a threat. When he writes a sensational book that causes a stir in his mother’s circles, it’s only a matter of time before Olga’s secrets are revealed. Is status all that matters to Olga? Or will she finally realise what it has cost her?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530745 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Liverpool Daisy Author: Helen Forrester Narrator: Lizzie Hopley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 9 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s hard-hitting and gripping fiction, set in Liverpool during the Depression, continues to move readers. After the death of her mother, Daisy Gallagher supports her struggling family while her best friend Nellie O’Brian is dying for lack of medical attention. Desperate for money, Daisy turns to the darkened streets of pre-war Liverpool, filled with drunken sailors, and makes a terrible sacrifice. Through strength and suffering, she earns enough to support those who need her help. Daisy’s friends and family know nothing of her new occupation. But, as her husband returns from the sea, can it remain hidden much longer?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530746 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Three Women of Liverpool Author: Helen Forrester Narrator: Lizzie Hopley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 10, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Timeless family drama from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s hard-hitting and gripping fiction, set in Liverpool during the Blitz, continues to move readers. Three brave women, their lives closely entwined, deal with the destruction brought on by the Blitz in the Second World War. Whilst Gwen attempts to keep up with the constant demands of family life amidst the horrors of war, her sister-in-law Emmie is consumed by fear for the safety of her fiancé. Meanwhile next-door, Ellen’s house is destroyed by bombs, leaving her family homeless with the threat of poverty looming. Faced with devastating challenges, can ordinary people fight to carry on with life in a city torn apart by war?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518050 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Schoolmistress Series: #2 of Our Street at War Author: Maggie Sullivan Narrator: Chloe Massey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 55 minutes Release date: October 21, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Heartwarming and nostalgic new Saga series from the author of Mother’s Day on Coronation Street. It’s 1940 and for the Lancashire town of Greenhill, everything is about to change… Local schoolteacher Violet Pegg is surprised to get a letter out of the blue. Her Canadian pen-friend, Daniel, will soon be joining the RAF and be stationed close by. Violet hopes their long-distant friendship is about to become something more. Vicky Buckley, the town postmistress, has recently married the local doctor, but she is shocked when an unexpected visitor turns up on her doorstep. Claire Gold works with her aunt, Sylvia, in the haberdashery shop. When Violet asks her for a favour, it sets off a chain of events that will threaten their friendship. With the dark clouds of conflict looming, will it be love, and not war, that Greenhill must contend with? Praise for Maggie Sullivan: ‘A lovely, nostalgic choice read’ Choice Magazine ‘Perfect’ Woman

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/518024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Waiting for Sunshine: The emotional and thought-provoking new novel from the bestselling author of Mix Tape Author: Jane Sanderson Narrator: Sofia Zervudachi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 58 minutes Release date: July 21, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Who would name a child Sunshine, then give her away?' Chrissie has always wanted to be a mother. After months of trying to adopt, she and her husband Stuart finally get the news that a little girl named Sunshine is waiting for them. The child comes to them without a history, and it feels like a fresh start for all of them. But when fragments from Sunshine's previous life start to intrude on her new one, the little girl's mysterious past quickly becomes Chrissie's greatest fear ... Beautiful and compelling, this is a story of hope and love, about finding the perfect family and fighting to keep it, perfect for fans of Dawn French and Ruth Jones Praise for Jane Sanderson: 'Fantastic, moving, beautiful' Daily Mail 'Nostalgic and poignant' Fabulous 'This tender tale of second chances . . . is a nostalgic delight' Sunday Mirror 'Beautifully written and a joy to read' Daily Express 'Gorgeous . . . guaranteed to make you think' Prima © Jane Sanderson 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526711 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lucie Yi Is Not A Romantic Author: Lauren Ho Narrator: Cindy Kay Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 58 minutes Release date: June 23, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ‘If Jane Austen and Kevin Kwan had a love child, it might well be Lucie Yi Is Not A Romantic’ JODI PICOULT ‘Funny as heck but also real and relatable, Lucie Yi Is Not A Romantic redefines the romcom’ RED Lucie Yi has tried love – it didn’t work. She’s decided that finding Mr Right is a myth, and that finding Mr Right-enough-to-have-children-with is the next best option. So when she meets easy-going Collin Read on a platonic co-parenting website, it finally feels like she has found her version of happily ever after. But things take a turn for the worse when they move back home to Singapore where her very traditional family and remorseful ex-fiancé await. With pressure mounting on all sides and her perfect plan unravelling, Lucie has to decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice for a chance at happiness – and maybe, just maybe, love. LOVE for Last Tang Standing: ‘I absolutely adored it. It is the funniest rom-com I've read in a very long time’Beth O’Leary ‘A fun, funny, addictive adventure … A perfect summer page-turner … I loved it’ Lindsey Kelk ‘Andrea Tang is wise, witty, flawed and perfectly written. you'll gobble this up!’ Laura Jane Williams ‘Both joyfully entertaining and socially perceptive … I loved it’ Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times ‘An absolute delight. Andrea Tang is the protagonist that we all need to remind us of the complications of navigating our thirties’ Balli Kaur Jaswal, author of Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521967 to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Streets Author: Luan Goldie Narrator: Sara Novak, James Hillier Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 2 minutes Release date: June 23, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the author of Nightingale Point, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, comes a new thought-provoking and timely novel. ‘A sharp, funny, wonderful writer’ Diana Evans, Ordinary People ‘These Streets turns a spotlight on the strength and resilience required to overcome physical and emotional adversity that never should have been yours in the first place. Important and remarkable’ Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry ‘A brilliant book written with warmth and sensitivity that I recommend most highly. I loved it unreservedly’ My Weekly * * * Amidst the hustle and bustle of life in east London, these people are trying to hold onto hope in an ever-changing world . . . Jess is a single mother to two teenagers. All her energy goes into keeping them safe and happy. Being faced with eviction is a setback she wasn’t prepared for, but Jess never lets circumstances dent her optimism. Hazel is Oxbridge-bound and ready to fly the nest, but she’s tired of being treated like a child. It's no wonder she can't tell her mum, Jess the truth about what she’s been up to lately . . . Ben has recently moved back to east London with just his faithful dog Harold for company. When he meets Jess, he realises they've crossed paths before. But can he keep this connection hidden from the woman he's starting to fall for? As the world continues to turn, these ordinary people will soon realise that, even with everything around them changing, the whisper of hope remains. Set in east London, These Streets is a powerful and essential story about family, community and living in Britain today, told with compassion and heart. * * * Readers are giving These Streets five stars! ‘Powerful and rewarding . . . Goldie tells a very good story with real care and craft. There will be much praise for this book, and deservedly so’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘A beautiful book about a normal family – I absolutely loved it!’ Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Wild Fires Author: Sophie Jai Narrator: Sophie Jai Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 12, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: *WINNER OF THE 2023 FRED KERNER BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS* *FINALIST FOR THE 2023 RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE* Grief is like an inside joke: you have to have been there to really get it. Everything Cassandra Rampersad knows about her family history has been overheard: whispered behind a closed door or written in a notebook stowed away. Cassandra has always been curious, and when a death in the family means she has to return home to Toronto, it seems like the perfect opportunity to finally discover what it is that no one else will talk about. But uncovering the past will never be easy when it has stayed hidden for so long. And with every new revelation, Cassandra realises that there is a reason that her family has never been good at grieving… A powerful meditation on memory and loss, Wild Fires is a beautifully crafted novel from a stunning new literary voice.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521973 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Who’s Lying Now? Author: Susan Lewis Narrator: Sofia Zervudachi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 57 minutes Release date: April 14, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Don’t miss the captivating new page-turner from Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Lewis You think you’re safe. You think you know your neighbours. But can you ever really know who’s telling the truth? Jeannie Symonds is a force to be reckoned with – an eccentric, award-winning publisher, spending lockdown with her husband in a house near Kesterly-on-Sea. She seems to have it all: a high-flying career, a happy marriage, a niece she adores. And then one day, she vanishes. Cara Jakes is a new trainee investigator – young, intelligent and eager to prove herself. When she teams up with detective Andee Lawrence to look into the disappearance, she is determined to find out what has really happened to Jeannie. Cara begins to question the residents of this close-knit community, sure that someone has a secret to hide. But how can she separate the truth from the lies?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531160 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Secrets of the Chocolate Girls Series: #4 of Chocolate Girls Author: Annie Murray Narrator: Annie Aldington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 14, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From Annie Murray, the bestselling author of The Bells of Bournville Green, comes Secrets of the Chocolate Girls, another gritty family saga about love, war and chocolate . . . September 1940, Birmingham. While her husband and daughter work at the Cadbury's Bournville factory, Ann Gilby has her hands full at home with her other daughter, Sheila, newly returned home with baby Elaine. With Sheila's husband away doing his bit in the RAF, Ann knows she should be grateful to have all her children safe under one roof. But she can't help but fear for their uncertain future as bombs fall ever closer to her Birmingham home. Part of her yearns for the carefree days of her youth when she also worked the line at Cadburys, filling trays of chocolate shells. But mostly Ann tries not to think of the past at all since that would mean she would have to confront her oldest secret, one she's kept since the last war and the one that could easily rip her family apart . . .

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525492 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Sing Her Name Author: Rosalyn Story Narrator: Tamika Katon-Donegal Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Sing Her Name follows two musically gifted women whose lives overlap across the boundaries of time. This third novel by Rosalyn Story, whose critically acclaimed books treat the central role of Black people in American music, is her best and most rewarding yet.Beautiful and brilliantly talented Celia DeMille is a nineteenth-century concert artist who has garnered fame, sung all over the world, and amassed a fortune. But prejudice bars her from achieving her place in history as one of the world’s greatest singers, and she dies in poverty and obscurity.In twenty-first-century New Orleans, Eden Malveaux, a thirty-something waitress with a beautiful but untutored voice, is the sole guardian of her 17-year-old brother. Motherless for most of their lives, she has struggled for years to make ends meet as she fights to keep the promise she made to their dying father: to protect her wayward brother and raise him as if he were her own child. After a hurricane displaces them to New York City, Eden seeks safe refuge—not only from the ensuing flood, but also to hide her brother from the law, while she works to divert him from a path of crime, prison, or worse.Months into their New York stay, Eden’s estranged Great Aunt Julia summons her back to New Orleans for a brief visit, and the older woman gives Eden something that alters the course of her life: a box she found in the midst of flooded rubble containing a hundred-year-old scrapbook and a mysterious and valuable gold pendant necklace belonging to one of the greatest singers in history—Celia DeMille.Eden returns to New York, but as she explores the artifacts of Celia DeMille’s extraordinary life, curiosity grows into obsession, then into an inspiration that propels Eden into a world she never dreamed. With the help of new friends, and buoyed by the diva’s story, Eden’s new life in New York takes a dramatic turn toward unimagined success.But just as she is poised to make her mark on the world stage, her brother’s dangerous choices catch up with them, and Eden must confront buried secrets from her complicated childhood. To face the promise of her future, Eden must first reconcile years of regrets and leave behind the guilt of the past—and perhaps even the brother she loves.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525815 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unlikely Animals: A Novel Author: Annie Hartnett Narrator: Kirby Heyborne, Mark Bramhall Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 42 minutes Release date: April 12, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “This tragicomic novel is heartfelt, touching, and delightfully quirky. You’ll fall in love with the offbeat cast of characters (both living and dead) and find yourself rooting for them right through the last page.”—Good Housekeeping (Book Club pick) A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Book Riot • Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize It was a source of entertainment at Maple Street Cemetery. Both funny and sad, the kind of story we like best.  Natural-born healer Emma Starling once had big plans for her life, but she’s lost her way. A medical school dropout, she’s come back to small-town Everton, New Hampshire, to care for her father, who is dying from a mysterious brain disease. Clive Starling has been hallucinating small animals, as well as having visions of the ghost of a long-dead naturalist, Ernest Harold Baynes, once known for letting wild animals live in his house. This ghost has been giving Clive some ideas on how to spend his final days. Emma arrives home knowing she must face her dad’s illness, her mom’s judgment, and her younger brother’s recent stint in rehab, but she’s unprepared to find that her former best friend from high school is missing, with no one bothering to look for her. The police say they don’t spend much time looking for drug addicts. Emma’s dad is the only one convinced the young woman might still be alive, and Emma is hopeful he could be right. Someone should look for her, at least. Emma isn’t really trying to be a hero, but somehow she and her father bring about just the kind of miracle the town needs. Set against the backdrop of a small town in the throes of a very real opioid crisis, Unlikely Animals is a tragicomic novel about familial expectations, imperfect friendships, and the possibility of resurrecting that which had been thought irrevocably lost.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517904 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Let's Not Do That Again: A Novel Author: Grant Ginder Narrator: Susannah Jones Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 30 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'Hilarious, suspenseful, and whip smart.' —Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney '...Jones does an outstanding job of matching the tonal changes in this audiobook.'- AudioFile on Let's Not Do That Again From Grant Ginder, the author of The People We Hate at the Wedding, comes Let's Not Do That Again a poignant, funny, and slyly beguiling novel which proves that, like democracy, family is a messy and fragile thing —perfect for fans of Veep’s biting humor, the family drama of Succession, and the joys of Kevin Wilson’s Nothing to See Here. Nancy Harrison is running for Senate, and she’s going to win, goddamnit. Not that that’s her slogan, although it could be. She’s said all the right things. Passed all the right legislation. Chapped her lips kissing babies. There’s just one problem: her grown children. Greta and Nick Harrison are adrift. Nick is floundering in his attempts to write a musical about the life of Joan Didion (called Hello to All That!). And then there’s his little sister Greta. Smart, pretty, and completely unmotivated, allowing her life to pass her by like the shoppers at the Apple store where she works. One morning the world wakes up not to Nancy making headlines, but her daughter, Greta. She’s in Paris. With extremist protestors. Throwing a bottle of champagne through a beloved bistro’s front window. In order to save her campaign, not to mention her daughter, Nancy and Nick must find Greta before it’s too late.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533032 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lifeguards: A Novel Author: Amanda Eyre Ward Narrator: Karissa Vacker, Marin Ireland, Kirby Heyborne, Hillary Huber Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 41 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “A book that is at once riveting and relevant as it unpeels the various meanings of motherhood, family, and loyalty. I tore through it.”—Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace   The bonds between three picture-perfect—but viciously protective—mothers and their close-knit sons are tested during one unforgettable summer in a gripping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters. Austin’s Zilker Park neighborhood is a wonderland of greenbelt trails, live music, and moms who drink a few too many margaritas. Whitney, Annette, and Liza have grown thick as thieves as they have raised their children together for fifteen years, believing that they can shelter them their children from an increasingly dangerous world. Their friendship is unbreakable—as safe as the neighborhood where they've raised their sweet little boys. Or so they think.  One night, the three women have been enjoying happy hour when their boys, lifeguards for the summer, come back on bicycles from a late-night dip in their favorite swimming hole. The boys share a secret—news that will shatter the perfect world their mothers have so painstakingly created.     Combining three mothers’ points of view in a powerful narrative tale with commentary from entertaining neighborhood listservs, secret text messages, and police reports, The Lifeguards is both a story about the secrets we tell to protect the ones we love and a riveting novel of suspense filled with half-truths and betrayals, fierce love and complicated friendships, and the loss of innocence on one hot summer night.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Return of Faraz Ali: A Novel Author: Aamina Ahmad Narrator: Homer Todiwala, Nina Wadia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 11 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AND NPR WINNER OF THE 2023 L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE, ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION “Stunning not only on account of the author’s talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in its humanity.” —New York Times Book Review (cover) Sent back to his birthplace—Lahore’s notorious red-light district—to hush up the murder of a girl, a man finds himself in an unexpected reckoning with his past. Not since childhood has Faraz returned to the Mohalla, in Lahore’s walled inner city, where women continue to pass down the art of courtesan from mother to daughter. But he still remembers the day he was abducted from the home he shared with his mother and sister there, at the direction of his powerful father, who wanted to give him a chance at a respectable life. Now Wajid, once more dictating his fate from afar, has sent Faraz back to Lahore, installing him as head of the Mohalla police station and charging him with a mission: to cover up the violent death of a young girl. It should be a simple assignment to carry out in a marginalized community, but for the first time in his career, Faraz finds himself unable to follow orders. As the city assails him with a jumble of memories, he cannot stop asking questions or winding through the walled city’s labyrinthine alleyways chasing the secrets—his family’s and his own—that risk shattering his precariously constructed existence. Profoundly intimate and propulsive, The Return of Faraz Ali is a spellbindingly assured first novel that poses a timeless question: Whom do we choose to protect, and at what price?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/533024 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Delphine Jones Takes a Chance Author: Beth Morrey Narrator: Pearl Mackie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 48 minutes Release date: April 5, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A heartening and life-affirming novel about a single mother learning to make a bigger life, and the power of human connection to grow our worlds. Delphine Jones’s world is about to get much bigger...if only she’d let it. Devoted single mother Delphine Jones is an expert at putting her head down and moving through life one day at a time. Since getting pregnant at sixteen, her circle has only ever included her now eleven-year-old daughter and best friend, Em, and her complicated father whom they live with. But when an opportunity for her to finish school presents itself, Delphine finally does something she hasn’t done in years: she takes a chance on herself. Sometimes all it takes is one chance.   As Delphine rediscovers her passions and her belief in herself, her circle expands to include an Oscar-winning actress turned teacher, an Eritrean couple running a local café-cum-jazz club, an elderly French widow looking to converse, and a handsome musician who awakens something in Delphine that she thought had been long buried. But as Delphine’s eyes and heart start to open, she must also face questions she’s stonewalled for more than a decade, questions about Em’s father. Is she brave enough?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526707 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Book Share Author: Phaedra Patrick Narrator: Katy Sobey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 51 minutes Release date: March 31, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: ‘Charming and compelling… a beautiful book, wise, heartfelt and full of hope’ Hazel Prior, Away with the Penguins ‘Witty and delightful, this story is a salve to the soul’ Colleen Oakley, The Invisible Husband of Frick Island It’s never too late to start a new chapter… Liv Green loves losing herself in a good book. But her everyday reality is less romantic, cleaning houses for people who barely give her the time of day. So when she lands a job housekeeping for her personal hero and mega-bestselling author Essie Starling, she can't believe her luck. When Essie dies unexpectedly, Liv is left with a life-changing last wish: to complete Essie’s final novel. To do so, change-averse Liv will have to step away from the fictitious worlds in her head, and into Essie’s shoes. As she begins to write, she uncovers a surprising connection between the two women – and a secret that will change Liv’s life forever… Brimming with joy and packed with a sparkling cast of characters, The Book Share is a moving reminder that it’s never too late to re-write your own story – perfect for fans of The Lost Bookshop and The Authenticity Project. Readers love The Book Share: ‘What a fantastic read. I absolutely loved it.’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Heartbreakingly endearing but with so much light and love – this is a feel-good hit you should definitely be sharing!’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Really enjoyed this book . . . The surprises keep on coming right to the end.’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Plenty of twists and turns with interesting characters . . . Uplifting and feel good.’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I was so involved with the story it only took me a day to read it.’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Such a fresh story and I really didn’t predict what was going to happen.’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘I’ve never read a book like it. I found myself completely drawn in from the very beginning . . . A truly brilliant, feel good read.’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530522 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Home or Away Author: Kathleen West Narrator: Cassandra Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'A gloriously entertaining plunge into the ultra-competitive world of youth sports and the lengths we go to for the kids and game we love.'--New York Times bestselling author KJ Dell'Antonia Two friends, one Olympic dream, and the choice that stood in the way. Once Leigh and Susy were close friends and teammates bound for Olympic hockey gold, but when Leigh’s sure-fire plan to make the final roster backfired, she left everything behind to start over, including the one person who knew her secret.   Two decades later, Leigh’s a successful investment banker, happily married, and the mom of a hockey prodigy, so when a career opportunity lands the family back in Minnesota, Leigh takes the shot for her kid. Back in the ultra-competitive world she left behind, the move puts her in Susy’s orbit, a daily reminder of how Leigh watched from the sidelines as her former teammate went on to Olympic glory.   Despite the coldness between them, Susy can’t help but hope that Leigh might lace up her skates and join her in the coaches’ box—after all Leigh knows better than anyone how hard it is to be a woman in this world.  Susy knows soon her daughter, Georgie, will be seen as a “girl athlete,” relegated to the B team, with less support and opportunity to advance.   But Leigh believes keeping Susy at arms’ length is the only way to hide her history with her former coach Jeff Carlson. When he hints of new favors in exchange for her son’s ice time, Leigh is caught in the ultimate bind: come clean about what happened when she was an Olympic hopeful and risk her marriage or play Jeff’s game. In a moment of desperation, Leigh realizes the one person she thought was her biggest competitor—her former teammate—might turn out to be her biggest ally.   Told with Kathleen West’s trademark wit and compassion, Home or Away is a story about overcoming our pasts, confronting our futures, and the sustaining bonds of female friendship.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531782 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A House Between Earth and the Moon: A Novel Author: Rebecca Scherm Narrator: Xe Sands Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 39 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.33 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “Compulsively readable.” —The New York Times Book Review   “Inventive and thrilling. . . . I couldn’t put it down.” —Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half “It’s a thrill to read this novel.” —Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror The gripping story of one scientist in outer space, another who watches over him, the family left behind, and the lengths people will go to protect the people and planet they love For twenty years, Alex has believed that his gene-edited super-algae will slow and even reverse the effects of climate change. His obsession with his research has jeopardized his marriage, his relationships with his kids, and his own professional future. When the Son sisters, founders of the colossal tech company Sensus, offer him a chance to complete his research, he seizes the opportunity. The catch? His lab will be in outer space on Parallaxis, the first-ever luxury residential space station built for billionaires. Alex and six other scientists leave Earth and their loved ones to become Pioneers, the beta tenants of Parallaxis.   But Parallaxis is not the space palace they were sold. Day and night, the embittered crew builds the facility under pressure from Sensus, motivated by the promise that their families will join them. At home on Earth, much of the country is ablaze in wildfires and battered by storms. In Michigan, Alex’s teenage daughter, Mary Agnes, struggles through high school with the help of the ubiquitous Sensus phones implanted in everyone’s ears, archiving each humiliation, and wishing she could go to Parallaxis with her father—but her mother will never allow it.   The Pioneers are the beta testers of another program, too: Sensus is designing an algorithm that will predict human behavior. Katherine Son hires Tess, a young social psychologist, to watch the experiment’s subjects through their phones—including not only the Pioneers, but Katherine’s sister, Rachel. Tess begins to develop an intimate, obsessive relationship with her subjects. When Tess and Rachel travel to Parallaxis, the controlled experiment begins to unravel.   Prescient and insightful, A House Between Earth and the Moon is at once a captivating epic about the machinations of big tech and a profoundly intimate meditation on the unmistakably human bonds that hold us together.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523997 to listen full audiobooks. Title: With Love From Rose Bend Series: #3 of Rose Bend Author: Naima Simone Narrator: Mari Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 29, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: With major Gilmore Girls vibes…but added spice! In escaping his past can he find his future? Leontyne Dennison is off men! She is perfectly happy focusing on running her family’s small town inn and volunteering for Rose Bend’s annual spring festival. Until a blast from her past sweeps into town… A retired professional football player, Owen came to Rose Bend to hide after a car accident ended his career. But when he bumps into Leo, the woman he has never forgotten, things start to look up. When Owen’s low profile in town is threatened, Leo comes to his aid and, soon, what started as a temporary hideaway looks like it could become so much more permanent for Owen…

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/529535 to listen full audiobooks. Title: French Braid: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Redhead by the Side of the Road Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 24, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author -- a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to the changed world of today When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice. Over at her studio, she wants space and silence. She won't allow any family clutter. Not even their cat, Desmond. Yet it is a clutter of untidy moments that forms the Garretts' family life over the decades, from giving a child a ride to a painstaking Easter lunch, a fateful train journey to an unexpected homecoming. And it all begins in 1959, with a family holiday to a cabin by a lake. It's the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations. 'If Anne Tyler isn't the best writer in the world, who is?' BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR © Anne Tyler 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530523 to listen full audiobooks. Title: French Braid: A novel Author: Anne Tyler Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 4 minutes Release date: March 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.84 of Total 25 Ratings of Narrator: 3.75 of Total 4 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread—a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey deep into one Baltimore family’s foibles, from a boyfriend with a red Chevy in the 1950s up to a longed-for reunion with a grandchild. “A quietly subversive novel, tackling fundamental assumptions about womanhood, motherhood and female aging.” —The New York Times Book Review The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever leave home, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understand. Yet, as these lives advance across decades, the Garretts' influences on one another ripple ineffably but unmistakably through each generation. Full of heartbreak and hilarity, French Braid is classic Anne Tyler: a stirring, uncannily insightful novel of tremendous warmth and humor that illuminates the kindnesses and cruelties of our daily lives, the impossibility of breaking free from those who love us, and how close—yet how unknowable—every family is to itself.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/523038 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Road Ends Author: Mary Lawson Narrator: Jess Salgueiro, Ishan Davé, John Fleming Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 12 minutes Release date: March 17, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Literary Fiction Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Discover this powerful novel about a family falling apart, from the Booker Longlisted author of A TOWN CALLED SOLACE Twenty-one-year-old Megan Cartwright has never been outside the small town she was born in but one winter's day in 1966 she leaves everything behind and sets out for London. Ahead of her is a glittering new life, just waiting for her to claim it. But left behind, her family begins to unravel. Disturbing letters from home begin to arrive and torn between her independence and family ties, Megan must make an impossible choice. 'Tender and surprising... A vivid and evocative tale' New York Times 'Every bit as good as I expected. A heart-aching and beautifully written story of a family falling apart' Woman and Home © Mary Lawson 2014 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/521955 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Time to Remember Author: Josephine Cox Narrator: Carole Boyd Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 17 minutes Release date: March 17, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Don’t miss the gripping new drama from the nation’s favourite storyteller! Are some memories best forgotten? Maureen Bancroft has never learned the art of putting herself first. As a widow with a gentle temperament and humble ways, she’s been easy to take advantage of. All that changes when an unexpected windfall comes her way. Determined to make up for lost time, she decides to take a holiday and, needing a companion, looks up her friend, Barbara Hayle. Glamorous, and with a successful career on the stage, Barbara seems to be everything that Maureen is not. But things aren’t as they seem, and what starts out as a nostalgic trip between friends, becomes something different altogether. Much has changed in the years since they first met ̶ now Maureen has something that her friend desperately needs, and Barbara is used to getting exactly what she wants. As their journey takes them down some dark byways, will this be the one friendship that Maureen should have left firmly in the past? Praise for Josephine Cox: ‘Cox’s talent as a storyteller never lets you escape the spell’ Daily Mail ‘A surefire winner’ Woman’s Weekly

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530549 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Secret Life of an Uncool Mum Series: #1 of Mammy Banter Author: Serena Terry Narrator: Serena Terry Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Release date: March 3, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Includes exclusive audiobook-only bonus content with @MammyBanter herself. From the creator of viral Tiktok sensation, @MammyBanter, comes a hilarious warts-and-all novel about modern motherhood – and how having it all sometimes isn’t what you think it might be. She used to want it all. Now she just wants a nap. Tara Gallagher is knackered. She used to dream of being Beyoncé but suddenly she’s thirty-six and instead of headlining Glastonbury, she’s in her pyjamas on a Friday night, watching Gogglebox. It’s time for a mammy makeover. She’s going to show her teenage daughter she’s still cool. Show her husband she’s still an absolute ride. And show her colleagues she’s still a Boss Bish. But most of all, she’s going to prove to herself that she can still be a mum, still work full time, and still be Beyoncé… *Previously published as Mammy Banter: The Secret Life of an Uncool Mum Mammy Banter was a Sunday Times No.5 bestseller for w/c 08/03/2022

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525051 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Until We Meet Author: Camille Di Maio Narrator: Steve Quinn, Stephanie Willing Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A poignant and page-turning story of three women whose lives are forever changed by war.… New York City, 1943 Can one small act change the course of a life?Margaret’s job at the Navy Yard brings her freedoms she never dared imagine, but she wants to do something more personal to help the war effort. Knitting socks for soldiers is a way to occupy her quiet nights and provide comfort to the boys abroad. But when a note she tucks inside one of her socks sparks a relationship with a long-distance pen pal, she finds herself drawn to a man she’s never even met. Can a woman hold on to her independence if she gives away her heart? Gladys has been waiting her whole life for the kinds of opportunities available to her now that so many men are fighting overseas. She’s not going to waste a single one. And she’s not going to let her two best friends waste them either. Then she meets someone who values her opinions as much as she likes giving them, and suddenly she is questioning everything she once held dear. Can an unwed mother survive on her own?Dottie is in a dire situation—she’s pregnant, her fiancé is off fighting the war, and if her parents find out about the baby, they’ll send her away and make her give up her child. Knitting helps take her mind off her uncertain future—until the worst happens and she must lean on her friends like never before. With their worlds changing in unimaginable ways, Margaret, Gladys, and Dottie will learn that the unbreakable bond of friendship between them is what matters most of all.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525636 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Unsinkable Greta James: A Novel Author: Jennifer E. Smith Narrator: Mae Whitman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 15 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An indie musician reeling from tragedy and a public breakdown reconnects with her father on a weeklong cruise in “a pitch-perfect story about the ways we recover love in the strangest places” (Rebecca Serle, bestselling author of In Five Years) “The characters are drawn with a generosity that allows them to be wrong but also right, loving but also prone to missteps, and ultimately deserving of a resolution that’s full of hope.”—Linda Holmes, New York Times bestselling author of Flying Solo ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: She Reads Just after the death of her mother—her first and most devoted fan—and weeks before the launch of her high-stakes sophomore album, Greta James falls apart on stage. The footage quickly goes viral and she stops playing, her career suddenly in jeopardy—the kind of jeopardy her father, Conrad, has always predicted. Months later, Greta—still heartbroken and very much adrift—reluctantly agrees to accompany Conrad on the Alaskan cruise her parents had booked to celebrate their fortieth anniversary. It could be their last chance to heal old wounds in the wake of shared loss. But the trip will also prove to be a voyage of discovery for them both, and for Ben Wilder, a charming historian struggling with a major upheaval in his own life. As Greta works to build back her confidence and Ben confronts an uncertain future, they find themselves drawn to and relying on each other. It’s here in the unlikeliest of places—at sea, far from the packed city venues where she usually plays and surrounded by the stunning Alaskan wilderness—that Greta will have to decide what her path forward might look like—and how to find her voice again.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/530735 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Swimmers Author: Julie Otsuka Narrator: Traci Kato-Kiriyama Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 6 minutes Release date: February 24, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From the internationally bestselling author of The Buddha in the Attic Up above there are wildfires, smog alerts, epic droughts, paper jams, teachers' strikes, insurrections, revolutions, record-breaking summers of unendurable heat, but down below, at the pool, it is always a comfortable eighty-one degrees ... Alice is one of a group of obsessed recreational swimmers for whom their local swimming pool has become the centre of their lives - a place of unexpected kinship, freedom, and ritual. Until one day a crack appears beneath its surface ... As cracks also begin to appear in Alice's memory, her husband and daughter are faced with the dilemma of how best to care for her. As Alice clings to the tethers of her past in a Home she feels certain is not her home, her daughter must navigate the newly fractured landscape of their relationship. A novel about mothers and daughters, grief and memory, love and implacable loss, The Swimmers is spellbinding, incantatory and unforgettable. The finest work yet from a true modern master. PRAISE FOR JULIE OTSUKA: 'Otsuka's keenly observed prose manages to capture whole histories in a sweep of gorgeous incantatory sentences' Marie Claire 'Powerfully moving . . . intensely lyrical . . . verges on the edge of poetry' Independent 'A tender, nuanced, empathetic exploration of the sorrows and consolations of a whole generation of women' Telegraph © Julie Otsuka 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525620 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Think of Me Author: Frances Liardet Narrator: Renata Friedman, Nicholas Guy Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 22, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the New York Times bestselling author of We Must Be Brave comes a new sweeping historical novel about one couple’s journey through war, love, and loss, and how the people we love never really leave us. An epic love. A second chance. During the perils of World War II in Alexandria, Egypt, two people from different worlds will find their way back to each other time and time again, their love a beacon for their survival. After the war, James and Yvette establish roots in England hoping for a new beginning, until a tragic event drives a wedge between them and the path back to each other is one they both must be brave enough to face.   Decades later, and ten years after his wife’s death, James moves to the English village of Upton seeking change. When he discovers a scarf that might have been Yvette’s, James begins to unlock revelations about his past that just might return his lost faith to him—faith in God, in humanity, in himself, and perhaps most important of all, his faith in love.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525053 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Would I Lie to You? Author: Aliya Ali-Afzal Narrator: Aysha Kala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 34 minutes Release date: February 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: In this “total page-turner,” wife and mother Faiza is about to find what happens when you have your dream life and are about to lose it... but only if you're caught (Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium). At the school gates, Faiza fits in. It took a few years, but now the snobbish white mothers who mistook her for the nanny treat her as one of their own. She's learned to crack their subtle codes, speak their language of fashion and vacations and haircuts. You'd never guess, seeing her at the trendy kids' parties and the leisurely coffee mornings, that her childhood was spent being bullied and being ashamed of her poor Pakistani immigrant parents. When her husband Tom loses his job in finance, he stays calm. Something will come along, and in the meantime, they can live off their savings. But Faiza starts to unravel. Creating the perfect life and raising the perfect family comes at a cost – and the money Tom put aside has gone. Faiza will have to tell him she spent it all.   Unless she doesn't... It only takes a second to lie to Tom. Now Faiza has mere weeks to find $100,000. If anyone can do it, Faiza can.  She's had to fight for what she has, and she'll fight to keep it. But as the clock ticks down and Faiza desperately tries to put things right, she has to ask herself: how much more should she sacrifice to live someone else's idea of the dream life?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525621 to listen full audiobooks. Title: This Might Hurt Author: Stephanie Wrobel Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 42 minutes Release date: February 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “You’ll be gripped in this clever exploration of fear and vulnerability right until the flawless ending—one you’ll most certainly want to talk about.”—ASHLEY AUDRAIN, New York Times bestselling author of The Push NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY Newsweek ∙ E! ∙ Parade ∙ Katie Couric Media ∙ Betches ∙ Criminal Element ∙ Shondaland ∙ Bustle ∙ and more! From the USA Today bestselling and Edgar-nominated author of Darling Rose Gold comes a dark, thrilling novel about two sisters—one trapped in the clutches of a cult, the other in a web of her own lies.   Welcome to Wisewood. We’ll keep your secrets if you keep ours. Natalie Collins hasn’t heard from her sister in more than half a year. The last time they spoke, Kit was slogging from mundane workdays to obligatory happy hours to crying in the shower about their dead mother. She told Natalie she was sure there was something more out there.  And then she found Wisewood. On a private island off the coast of Maine, Wisewood’s guests commit to six-month stays. During this time, they’re prohibited from contact with the rest of the world—no Internet, no phones, no exceptions. But the rules are for a good reason: to keep guests focused on achieving true fearlessness so they can become their Maximized Selves. Natalie thinks it’s a bad idea, but Kit has had enough of her sister’s cynicism and voluntarily disappears off the grid.   Six months later Natalie receives a menacing e-mail from a Wisewood account threatening to reveal the secret she’s been keeping from Kit. Panicked, Natalie hurries north to come clean to her sister and bring her home. But she’s about to learn that Wisewood won’t let either of them go without a fight.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Swimmers: A novel (CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER) Author: Julie Otsuka Narrator: Traci Kato-Kiriyama Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 6 minutes Release date: February 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER • From the award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that 'starts as a catalogue of spoken and unspoken rules for swimmers at an aquatic center but unfolds into a powerful story of a mother’s dementia and her daughter’s love' (The Washington Post). The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium lane, fast lane) and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief.   One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against the darkness of her encroaching dementia. Without the fellowship of other swimmers and the routine of her daily laps she is plunged into dislocation and chaos, swept into memories of her childhood and the Japanese American incarceration camp in which she spent the war. Alice's estranged daughter, reentering her mother's life too late, witnesses her stark and devastating decline.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531777 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Life Without Children: Stories Author: Roddy Doyle Narrator: Roddy Doyle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 53 minutes Release date: February 22, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: “[Doyle] imparts a sense of poignancy and glimpses of happiness, of grief and loss and small moments of connection . . . you’re left feeling close to dazzled.” —Daphne Merkin, New York Times Book Review A brilliantly warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone.   In these ten beautifully moving short stories written mostly over the last year, Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle paints a collective portrait of our strange times. A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother’s funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret.   Told with Doyle’s signature warmth, wit, and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness, and the shifting of history underneath our feet.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Say You'll Be My Lady Author: Kate Pembrooke Narrator: Jeanette Illidge, Joe Knezevich Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: February 22, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Opposites attract in this irresistible Regency romance, where a proper gentleman who lives by the ton's rules and a lady who lives to break them try to resist one another—perfect for fans of Netflix’s Bridgerton series. Lady Serena Wynter doesn’t mind flirting with a bit of scandal—she’s determined to ignore society’s strictures and live life on her own fiercely independent terms. These days, she chooses to pour her passions into charitable causes with the vibrant group of ladies in her Wednesday Afternoon Social Club. But there is one man who stirs Serena’s deepest emotions, one who’s irresistibly handsome, infuriatingly circumspect, and too honorable for his own good... Charles Townshend, former boxer and consummate gentleman, worries Serena’s reckless nature will earn her the ton’s scorn…or put her in serious danger. Though Charles isn’t immune to the attraction between them, a shocking family secret prevents him from ever acting on his desires. But it seems Lady Serena doesn’t intend to let his penchant for propriety stand in the way of a mutually satisfying dalliance.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525602 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Find Your Way Home Author: Katy Regan Narrator: Hannah Curtis Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 5 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: What if the person you thought you’d lost forever walked back into your life? A warm, uplifting novel about the unshakable bond between siblings, and what happens when a sister discovers her long-missing brother in the most unexpected place, from the author of Little Big Love. Emily has been looking for the same face in every crowd for more than a decade: her brother’s. She’ll do anything to find him, she just never expects that one day he will walk through the door of the London housing office where she works, homeless and in need of help.   Emily’s overjoyed to see Stephen—her older brother, her hero, the one who taught her to look for the flash of a bird’s wings and instilled in her a love and respect for nature’s wonders—and invites him to live with her. But the baggage of the day that tore them apart, more than fifteen years before, is heavy. As they attempt to rebuild their relationship, they embark on the birding adventure they’d always promised to take when they were just children running wild in the wetlands of Canvey Island. And so, amid the soft, familiar calls of the marsh birds, they must finally confront what happened that June day—and in all the days since—if they are to finally find their way home.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Don't Say We Didn't Warn You: A Novel Author: Ariel Delgado Dixon Narrator: Alex Mckenna Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 52 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Two sisters unite to survive a traumatic upbringing—from absentee parents to a wilderness camp for troubled teens—in this “relentless and spooky” (Joy Williams) debut novel from an essential new voice. “A story that’s so weird, it has to be true. . . . Keeps our attention in a chokehold.”—The New York Times ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Good Housekeeping “When the Juvenile Transportation Services come for you in the night in a preordained kidnapping, complete with an unmarked van and husky guardsmen you can’t outmatch, you have been sold for a promise.” A young woman thinks she has escaped her past only to discover that she’s been hovering on its edges all along: She and her younger sister bide their time in a dilapidated warehouse in a desolate town north of New York City; their parents settled there with dreams of starting an art commune. But after the girls’ father vanishes, all traces of stability disappear for the family, and the girls retreat into strange worlds of their own mythmaking and isolation. As the sisters both try to survive their increasingly dark and dangerous adolescences, they break apart and reunite repeatedly, orbiting each other like planets. Both endure stints at the Veld Center, a wilderness camp where troubled teenage girls are sent as a last resort, and both emerge more deeply warped by the harsh outdoor survival experiences they must endure and the attempts by staff to break them down psychologically. With a mesmerizing voice and uncanny storytelling style, this is a remarkable debut about two women who must struggle to understand the bonds that link them and how their traumatic history will shape who they choose to become as adults.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531783 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Chilean Poet: A Novel Author: Alejandro Zambra Narrator: Gisela Chípe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 15, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A WALL STREET JOURNAL TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE” “A tender and funny story about love, family and the peculiar position of being a stepparent…[Chilean Poet] broadens the author’s scope and quite likely his international reputation.” —Los Angeles Times “Zambra [is] one of the most brilliant Latin American writers of his generation.” —The New York Review of Books  “Zambra's books have long shown him to be a writer who, at the sentence level, is in a world all his own.” —Juan Vidal, NPR.org A writer of “startling talent” (The New York Times Book Review), Alejandro Zambra returns with his most substantial work yet: a story of fathers and sons, ambition and failure, and what it means to make a family After a chance encounter at a Santiago nightclub, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his first love, Carla. Though their desire for each other is still intact, much has changed: among other things, Carla now has a six-year-old son, Vicente. Soon the three form a happy sort-of family—a stepfamily, though no such word exists in their language.   Eventually, their ambitions pull the lovers in different directions—in Gonzalo’s case, all the way to New York. Though Gonzalo takes his books when he goes, still, Vicente inherits his ex-stepfather’s love of poetry. When, at eighteen, Vicente meets Pru, an American journalist literally and figuratively lost in Santiago, he encourages her to write about Chilean poets—not the famous, dead kind, your Nerudas or Mistrals or Bolaños, but rather the living, striving, everyday ones. Pru’s research leads her into this eccentric community—another kind of family, dysfunctional but ultimately loving. Will it also lead Vicente and Gonzalo back to each other?   In Chilean Poet, Alejandro Zambra chronicles with enormous tenderness and insight the small moments—sexy, absurd, painful, sweet, profound—that make up our personal histories. Exploring how we choose our families and how we betray them, and what it means to be a man in relationships—a partner, father, stepfather, teacher, lover, writer, and friend—it is a bold and brilliant new work by one of the most important writers of our time.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/525595 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Very Cold People: A Novel Author: Sarah Manguso Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 8, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • The masterly debut novel from “an exquisitely astute writer” (The Boston Globe), about growing up in—and out of—the suffocating constraints of small-town America. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD • “Compact and beautiful . . . This novel bordering on a novella punches above its weight.”—The New York Times “Very Cold People reminded me of My Brilliant Friend.”—The New Yorker ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Good Housekeeping “My parents didn’t belong in Waitsfield, but they moved there anyway.” For Ruthie, the frozen town of Waitsfield, Massachusetts, is all she has ever known. Once home to the country’s oldest and most illustrious families—the Cabots, the Lowells: the “first, best people”—by the tail end of the twentieth century, it is an unforgiving place awash with secrets.   Forged in this frigid landscape Ruthie has been dogged by feelings of inadequacy her whole life. Hers is no picturesque New England childhood but one of swap meets and factory seconds and powdered milk. Shame blankets her like the thick snow that regularly buries nearly everything in Waitsfield.   As she grows older, Ruthie slowly learns how the town’s prim facade conceals a deeper, darker history, and how silence often masks a legacy of harm—from the violence that runs down the family line to the horrors endured by her high school friends, each suffering a fate worse than the last. For Ruthie, Waitsfield is a place to be survived, and a girl like her would be lucky to get out alive. In her eagerly anticipated debut novel, Sarah Manguso has written, with characteristic precision, a masterwork on growing up in—and out of—the suffocating constraints of a very old, and very cold, small town. At once an ungilded portrait of girlhood at the crossroads of history and social class as well as a vital confrontation with an all-American whiteness where the ice of emotional restraint meets the embers of smoldering rage, Very Cold People is a haunted jewel of a novel from one of our most virtuosic literary writers.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531116 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Vladimir: A Novel Author: Julia May Jonas Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 40 minutes Release date: February 1, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: An NPR, Washington Post, Time, People, Vulture, Guardian, Vox, Kirkus Reviews, Newsweek, LitHub, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year * “Delightful…cathartic, devious, and terrifically entertaining.” —The New York Times * “Timely, whip-smart, and darkly funny.” —People (Book of the Week) * One of Shondaland’s 13 Best College-Set Novels of All Time A provocative, razor-sharp, and timely debut novel about a beloved English professor facing a slew of accusations against her professor husband by former students—a situation that becomes more complicated when she herself develops an obsession of her own... “When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me.” And so we are introduced to our narrator who’s “a work of art in herself” (The Washington Post): a popular English professor whose charismatic husband at the same small liberal arts college is under investigation for his inappropriate relationships with his former students. The couple have long had a mutual understanding when it comes to their extra-marital pursuits, but with these new allegations, life has become far less comfortable for them both. And when our narrator becomes increasingly infatuated with Vladimir—a celebrated, married young novelist who’s just arrived on campus—their tinder box world comes dangerously close to exploding. “Timely, whip-smart, and darkly funny” (People), Vladimir takes us into charged territory, where the boundaries of morality bump up against the impulses of the human heart. This edgy, uncommonly assured debut perfectly captures the personal and political minefield of our current moment, exposing the nuances and the grey area between power and desire.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/519870 to listen full audiobooks. Title: How to Deceive a Duke Author: Samara Parish Narrator: Christy Woods Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 26 minutes Release date: January 25, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Fiona McTavish is an engineer, a chemist, a rebel—and no one’s idea of a proper lady. She prefers breeches to ballrooms, but her new invention—matches—will surely turn as many heads. There’s just a little matter of her being arrested for a crime she didn’t commit. And the only person she can turn to for help is the man who broke her heart years ago. Edward Stirling, Duke of Wildeforde, will do anything to restore his family’s name and put his father’s scandalous death behind them. But when Fiona needs his help getting released from prison, he can’t deny her—even though it means she must live with him as a condition of her freedom. With the desire between them rekindling as fast as the gossip about their arrangement is spreading among the ton, Edward will have to choose what matters most to him—his reputation or his heart.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/532075 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Strangers I Know: A Novel Author: Claudia Durastanti Narrator: Lisa Flanagan Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: January 25, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: 'Durastanti casts the universal drama of the family as the sieve through which the self—woman, artist, daughter—is filtered and known.' —Ocean Vuong   A work of fiction about being a stranger in your own family and life. Every family has its own mythology, but in this family none of the myths match up. Claudia’s mother says she met her husband when she stopped him from jumping off a bridge. Her father says it happened when he saved her from an attempted robbery. Both parents are deaf but couldn’t be more different; they can’t even agree on how they met, much less who needed saving.   Into this unlikely yet somehow inevitable union, our narrator is born. She comes of age with her brother in this strange, and increasingly estranged, household split between a small village in southern Italy and New York City. Without even sign language in common – their parents have not bothered to teach them – family communications are chaotic and rife with misinterpretations, by turns hilarious and devastating. An outsider in every way, she longs for a freedom she’s not even sure exists. Only books and punk rock—and a tumultuous relationship—begin to show her the way to create her own mythology, to construct her own version of the story of her life.   Kinetic, formally dazzling, and spectacularly original, this book is a funny and profound portrait of an unconventional family that makes us look anew at how language shapes our understanding of ourselves.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/526383 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Free Love: The exhilarating new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Late in the Day Author: Tessa Hadley Narrator: Abigail Thaw Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release date: January 20, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. From Tessa Hadley, bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past, comes a compulsive new novel about one woman's sexual and intellectual awakening in 1960s London 1967. While London comes alive with the new youth revolution, the suburban Fischer family seems to belong to an older world of conventional stability: pretty, dutiful homemaker Phyllis is married to Roger, a devoted father with a career in the Foreign Office. Their children are Colette, a bookish teenager, and Hugh, the golden boy. But when the twenty-something son of an old friend pays the Fischers a visit one hot summer evening, and kisses Phyllis in the dark garden after dinner, something in her catches fire. Newly awake to the world, Phyllis makes a choice that defies all expectations of her as a wife and a mother. Nothing in these ordinary lives is so ordinary after all, it turns out, as the family's upheaval mirrors the dramatic transformation of the society around them. With scalpel-sharp insight, Tessa Hadley explores her characters' inner worlds, laying bare their fears and longings. Daring and sensual, Free Love is a compulsive, irresistible exploration of romantic love, sexual freedom and living out the truest and most meaningful version of our lives. 'She has such great psychological insights into human beings, which is rare. She is one of the best fiction writers writing today.' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 'Tessa Hadley recruits admirers with each book. She writes with authority, and with delicacy: she explores nuance, but speaks plainly; she is one of those writers a reader trusts.' Hilary Mantel © Tessa Hadley 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517831 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Final Case: A novel Author: David Guterson Narrator: George Newbern Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 27 minutes Release date: January 11, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars—a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. 'Ultimately, the mystery at the center of The Final Case is not about innocence or guilt, but about how one family’s profound attachments can stand alongside breathtaking cruelty in another.” —Scott Turow, The New York Times Book Review A girl dies one late, rainy night a few feet from the back door of her home. The girl, Abeba, was born in Ethiopia. Her adoptive parents, Delvin and Betsy Harvey—conservative, white fundamentalist Christians—are charged with her murder. Royal, a Seattle criminal attorney in the last days of his long career, takes Betsy Harvey’s case. An octogenarian without a driver’s license, he leans on his son—the novel’s narrator—as he prepares for trial. So begins The Final Case, a bracing, astute, and deeply affecting examination of justice and injustice—and familial love. David Guterson’s first courtroom drama since Snow Falling on Cedars, it is his most compelling and heartfelt novel to date.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/527310 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Little Shop of Hidden Treasures: a delightful, hilarious and uplifting novel that you'll fall in love with Author: Holly Hepburn Narrator: Karen Cass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 35 minutes Release date: January 6, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 4.56 of Total 9 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Originally published in four parts this is the full story in one package.  When Hope loses her husband, she fears her happiest days are behind her. With her only connection to London broken, she moves home to York to be near her family and to begin to build a new life.     Taking a job at the antique shop she has always admired, she finds herself crossing paths with two very different men. Will, who has recently become the guardian to his niece after the tragic death of her parents. And Ciaran, who she enlists to help solve the mystery of an Egyptian antique. Two men who represent two different happy endings.   But can she trust herself to choose the right man? And will that bring her everything she really needs? The brand new novel from Holly Hepburn, author of Coming Home to Brightwater Bay.  ~*~Praise for Holly Hepburn~*~ ‘…treat yourself to a feel-good hit of warm fuzziness from Holly Hepburn. This enchanting novel tells the story of a grieving widow who finds herself ready for love again.’ – S Magazine, Daily Express ‘This book has everything from a beautiful setting to romance…and even a fascinating Egyptian mystery!’ – My Weekly ‘Uplifting’ – Bella Magazine 'A fresh new voice, brings wit and warmth to this charming tale of two sisters' Rowan Coleman 'Warm, witty and laced with intriguing secrets! I want to pull up a bar stool, order a large G&T and soak up all the gossip at the Star and Sixpence!' Cathy Bramley 'The Star and Sixpence sparkles with fun, romance, mystery, and a hunky blacksmith. It's a real delight' Julie Cohen 'Like the dream pub landlady who always knows exactly what you want, Holly Hepburn has created the most delightful welcome to what promises to be a brilliant series, in the first Star and Sixpence. The sisters are warm and intriguing, the neighbours are (mostly!) friendly and the gossip is utterly addictive. I was very sad when it was time for last orders, and am already looking forward to the next round. Especially if a certain blacksmith happens to be at the bar...' Kate Harrison 'Warm, witty and utterly charming, Snowdrops at the Star and Sixpence is the perfect book to curl up with on a cold winter's day. It left me with the most wonderful happy glow' Cally Taylor 'A super sparkling star of a story and I can’t wait for part two’ Alexandra Brown

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531631 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cornish Captive Author: Nicola Pryce Narrator: Penelope Freeman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 47 minutes Release date: January 6, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: The sixth novel in a stunning series set in eighteenth-century Cornwall, perfect for fans of Bridgerton Cornwall, 1800. Imprisoned on false pretences, Madeleine Pelligrew, former mistress of Pendenning Hall, has spent the last 14 years shuttled between increasingly destitute and decrepit mad houses. When a strange man appears out of the blue to release her, she can't quite believe that her freedom comes without a price. Hiding her identity, Madeleine determines to discover the truth about what happened all those years ago. Unsure who to trust and alone in the world, Madeleine strikes a tentative friendship with a French prisoner on parole, Captain Pierre de la Croix. But as she learns more about the reasons behind her imprisonment, and about those who schemed to hide her away for so long, she starts to wonder if Pierre is in fact the man he says he is. As Madeleine's past collides with her present, can she find the strength to follow her heart, no matter the personal cost? “A most enjoyable read set in the wild and majestic landscape of Cornwall. It will delight Poldark fans.” ELLIE DEAN, author of the Cliffhaven series, on Pengelly's Daughter

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/517218 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the Sweet Side Series: #3 of The Wish Series Author: Audrey Carlan Narrator: Carolina Hoyos Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 55 minutes Release date: January 4, 2022 Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Audrey Carlan comes a story of sisters, self-discovery and a little something sweet. Baking is Isabeau Collins’s life. Back from studying under the finest chefs in France and Italy, and with a newly minted culinary degree in hand, Izzy is ready to pursue her dream: whipping up creative confections in her own custom cake shop. But her perfect plans are waylaid when two women claiming to be her half sisters show up with a stack of letters addressed to Izzy from their late mother. Torn between launching her career and the need to learn more about her family history, Izzy makes the decision to go to Colorado to connect with the sisters she’s never known. Then Izzy stumbles across a run-down storefront in Pueblo’s funky downtown and instantly knows that with a bit of work it’s the perfect location for her dream bakery…which means her detour to Colorado will be a permanent reroute. And with an unexpected relationship growing between Izzy and her contractor, Kyson, she has yet another reason to stick around—even if there are secrets in Kyson’s past Izzy can’t quite figure out. Fighting homesickness and self-doubt, Izzy worries that she’s making a mistake. But with her sisters close and her dreams within reach, she can’t help but wonder if her riskiest move could be the most rewarding decision she’s ever made. The Wish Series Book 1: What the Heart Wants Book 2: To Catch a Dream Book 3: On the Sweet Side

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531200 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Men Don't Cry Author: Faiza Guene Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 19 minutes Release date: January 4, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: Is it possible to make your own path in the world while upholding your family legacy? That's the question at the heart of this tender and poignant coming-of-age story from the widely-acclaimed author of Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow.Born in Nice to Algerian parents, Mourad is fuelled by the desire to forge his own destiny. His retired father spends his days fixing up things in the backyard; his mother, bemoaning the loss of her natal village in North Africa. Mourad lives in fear of becoming an overweight bachelor with salt and pepper hair, living off his mother's cooking. When Mourad’s father has a stroke, he makes his son promise to reconcile things with his estranged sister Dounia, a staunch feminist and aspiring politician, who had always felt constrained living at home. Now living in the Paris suburbs himself, Mourad tracks down Dounia and battles to span the gulf separating her and the rest of the family.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/531076 to listen full audiobooks. Title: No Land to Light On: A Novel Author: Yara Zgheib Narrator: Ali Andre Ali, Suehyla El-Attar, Fajer Al-Kaisi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 10 minutes Release date: January 4, 2022 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: From the author of The Girls at 17 Swann Street comes a “masterful story of tragedy and redemption” (Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses) “written in soul-searing prose” (BookPage, starred review) about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love on the cusp of their bright future when a travel ban rips them apart on the eve of their son’s premature birth. Sama and Hadi are a young Syrian couple in love, dreaming of their future in the country that brought them together. Sama came to Boston years before on a prestigious Harvard scholarship; Hadi landed there as a sponsored refugee from a bloody civil war. Now, they are giddily awaiting the birth of their son, a boy whose native language will be freedom and belonging. When Sama is five months pregnant, Hadi’s father dies suddenly, and Hadi decides to fly back to Jordan for the funeral. He leaves America, promising his wife he’ll be gone only for a few days. On the date of his return, Sama waits for him at the arrivals gate, but he doesn’t appear. As the minutes and then hours pass, she becomes increasingly alarmed, unaware that Hadi has been stopped by US Customs and Border Protection, detained for questioning, and deported. Achingly intimate yet poignantly universal, No Land to Light On is “a tense, moving novel about the meaning of home, the risks of exile, the power of nations, and the power of love” (Kirkus Reviews).