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Open Minded: A Novel by Chloe Seager

Nov 12, 202410:12:00Tap to summarize

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/681588to listen full audiobooks. Title: Open Minded: A Novel Author: Chloe Seager Narrator: Cicely Whitehead, Victoria Morrison Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 12 minutes Release date: November 12, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Chloe Seager creates a fun yet thought-provoking novel about two very different women, Holly and Fliss, who are grappling with drastic changes in their relationships after Holly’s boyfriend wants to “open” their relationship and Fliss’s boyfriend wants to “close” theirs. After nine years of dating, Holly is sure her boyfriend Will is going to propose. But instead of popping the question, he shocks her by suggesting they open their relationship to date other people. For the last three years, Fliss and her boyfriend Ash have been in a happily open relationship. But now that they’re turning thirty, he wants to close it, throwing Fliss’s whole ethos of living life on her terms rather than society’s expectations into question. When Fliss overhears Holly crying in the toilets during her first date in nine years, they decide to ditch their dates and have dinner together. They strike up an instant friendship with Fliss agreeing to teach Holly everything she knows about being in an open relationship, while Holly, who’s been with one person for almost a decade, can help Fliss try monogamy. Fliss is willing to give up dating other people if it means staying with Ash, and Holly is willing to try anything if it means she gets her happy ending with Will. But perhaps both Fliss and Holly will learn that there’s no one size fits all when it comes to relationships . . .

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Once More From The Top by Emily Layden

Aug 27, 202411:31:00Tap to summarize

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/693831to listen full audiobooks. Title: Once More From The Top Author: Emily Layden Narrator: Sophie Amoss Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 31 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A propulsive novel about music, coming of age and the cost of fame, for fans of Megan Abbott and Daisy Jones and the Six. 'The secrets simmer in this atmospheric, powerful novel' KATIE BISHOP 'You won't be able to put it down' RUFI THORPE THIS IS MY STORY. NOT MY DEAD BEST FRIEND'S STORY. Dylan Read, the legendary country pop star, has spent fifteen years learning to craft the perfect good-girl image. But Dylan is privately haunted by the loss of her best friend Kelsey, who went missing the year before Dylan’s meteoric rise to fame. When Kelsey’s body is found at the bottom of a New England lake, Dylan is drawn back to her hometown where she must revisit their ill-fated teenage friendship and reckon with secrets that have stayed hidden for decades… ‘A beautifully written, nuanced thriller, and an unflinching look at a celebrity culture and a loneliness of superstardom’ RED MAGAZINE

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Slow Dance: A Novel by Rainbow Rowell

Jul 30, 202411:31:00Tap to summarize

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709899to listen full audiobooks. Title: Slow Dance: A Novel Author: Rainbow Rowell Narrator: Rebecca Lowman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 31 minutes Release date: July 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell comes Slow Dance – her smartest, funniest, most romantic novel yet. “If you, like me, think thirty-somethings methodically working through their issues is very hot, Slow Dance is the book for you. The people in it feel like people you know or maybe even people you’ve been. Slow Dance is sexy, sweet, wise, and nostalgic—Jane Austen’s Persuasion for our times.” — Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times bestselling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together . . . everybody but Shiloh and Cary. They were just friends. Best friends. They spent entire summers sitting on Shiloh’s porch steps, dreaming about the future. They promised each other that, no matter what, their friendship would never change. Well, Shiloh did go to college, and Cary did join the Navy. And yet, somehow, everything changed. Now Shiloh’s thirty-three, and it’s been fourteen years since she talked to Cary. She’s been married and divorced. She has two kids. And she’s back living in the same house she grew up in. Her life is nothing like she planned. When she’s invited to an old friend’s wedding, all Shiloh can think about is whether Cary will be there—and whether she hopes he will be. Would Cary even want to talk to her? After everything? The answer is yes. And yes. And yes. Slow Dance is the story of two kids who fell in love before they knew enough about love to recognize it. . . Two friends who lost everything. . . Two adults who just feel lost. It’s the story of Shiloh and Cary, who everyone thought would end up together, trying to find their way back to the start.

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Gold Rush by Olivia Petter

Jul 18, 202410:35:00Tap to summarize

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/684219to listen full audiobooks. Title: Gold Rush Author: Olivia Petter Narrator: Tom Babbage, Amy Scanlon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: July 18, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: ‘Addictive writing wrapped up in a compelling page turner that makes you deeply think and feel’ YOMI ADEGOKE 'An incisive new voice in fiction' COCO MELLORS We give celebrities a power they don’t deserve. Power they haven’t earned. What happens when they exploit it? Imagine you’ve just spent the night with the most famous man on the planet. Except you don’t quite remember it. That is what happens to Rose, a twenty-something woman who seemingly has everything going for her. Working for one of the most powerful news outlets in the country, Rose spends her days doing PR for glossy magazines. There are tedious spreadsheets, fashion divas, and many A-list parties. It’s at one of those parties where she meets Milo Jax, the world-famous, globally adored, British pop sensation. An unlikely flirtation turns into an even more unlikely evening and then Rose wakes up, unable to piece it all together. What happens next changes everything. Gold Rush is a story about consent, celebrity culture, and trying to figure out where women fit in a world that consistently devalues and disrespects their bodies. 'Powerful, nuanced, richly drawn and skilfully done, Gold rush will stay with me for a long time’ LAUREN BRAVO

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I Love You, I Love You, I Love You by Laura Dockrill

Jun 20, 202409:35:00Tap to summarize

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/680832to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Love You, I Love You, I Love You Author: Laura Dockrill Narrator: Laura Dockrill Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 20, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Take a trip back to Y2K with this nostalgic, messy and utterly beautiful love story… It's the year 2000. I'm fourteen. I'm trying really hard to be a grunger right now. There are rumours the world is going to end. It hasn't as of yet but I still have reasons to believe it's true. Readers LOVE I Love You, I Love You, I Love You 'The nostalgic book of my dreams' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I was crying along to their heartache and cheering along to their triumph' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Hilarious, heart-breaking and swoon-worthy' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ❤ ❤ ❤ Ella and Lowe are teenagers when they first meet in summer 2000. For her, it’s love at first sight. But it’s safest to love from afar, where the friendship zone is her safety net and she can’t get hurt. Certain that the most beautiful boy she's ever seen couldn't possibly feel the same, Ella counts herself lucky to have him as her best friend. Over the next fifteen years they share everything: bottles of cider and cigarettes in the rain, gossip and laughter, grief and fear. But every time Lowe kisses another girl, Ella feels her heart break just that little bit more. She'll have to choose whether it's enough to be just friends with the love of her life, or if she's prepared to let the terrifying, beautiful, all-consuming truth come to light. From a unique new voice in adult fiction, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You is a glorious nostalgia trip for anyone who has ever known the exquisite pain and pleasure of first love. ❤ ❤ ❤ Perfect for fans of: ❤️ Friends to lovers ❤️ Slow burn ❤️ Found family ❤️ Second chances ❤️ Celebrity romance Praise for I Love You, I Love You, I Love You ‘So visceral, nostalgic, mucky, heartbreaking and bittersweet. Just DELICIOUS.' Kirsty Capes 'A transporting, technicolour plunge into first, and enduring, love.' Sophie Dahl 'Glorious and tender, evocative and heart nourishing.' Salena Godden ‘A spectacular, funny portrayal of being young and in love.’ Woman & Home 'An ode to the bittersweet feeling of first love.' Woman's Own

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Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly by Joanna Glen

Jun 20, 202412:19:00Tap to summarize

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/678000to listen full audiobooks. Title: Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly Author: Joanna Glen Narrator: Anna Burnett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 19 minutes Release date: June 20, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: 'Fabulous, relaxing, page-turning, dream-inspiring' MIRANDA HART 'Exquisitely beautiful and so perceptive' JOANNA CANNON From the Costa-shortlisted author of THE OTHER HALF OF AUGUSTA HOPE and ALL MY MOTHERS Can two lost people find each other? The story of two people who have no idea how to fall in love… On two Northumbrian islands joined by a bridge at low tide, Addie and Sol draw comfort from the migrating birds and vast ocean around them. Every day they dream of escape. Introverts with turbulent pasts and wary hearts, they are both drawn to Nature far more than to people – until they catch sight of each other in the wild. Can they break free from their inhibitions and risk a better future together? 'A mini-holiday in itself, and an adorable ode to the romance of the awkward, the shy and the uncertain' LOUISA YOUNG 'Mesmerising… one of our favourite authors' WOMAN & HOME, Book of the Month GLOWING READER REVIEWS 'Absolutely stunning' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'Beautifully written, it needs to be read slowly and savoured' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'A deliciously awkward and incredibly beautiful meeting of two souls' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'This book stole my heart' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'A wonderful book about love, grief, hope, belonging and compromise' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Scripted by Fearne Cotton

Jun 6, 202409:45:00Tap to summarize

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/698215to listen full audiobooks. Title: Scripted Author: Fearne Cotton Narrator: Erin Doherty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: June 6, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. A HILARIOUSLY RELATABLE DEBUT ABOUT FINDING YOUR VOICE, FROM BELOVED SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FEARNE COTTON Jade Shaw has lost control of her life. Pushed around by her warring family, and taken for granted by a boyfriend who's more interested in his 'brand' than their relationship, she knows that somewhere along the path to being an adult she's lost her way. And she can't seem to find it again. The last place she expects to discover answers is on the floor outside her flat. But there it is: a script. Containing her name, and her boyfriend Adam's - and depicting another huge argument in which Jade fails to stand up for herself. The weird thing is: this argument hasn't happened yet. The row becomes reality. Jade tries and fails to find her voice. Then more scripts appear, predicting infuriating scenarios in which Jade's boss, mum, and bridezilla sister walk all over her. Whoever is leaving these scripts knows Jade inside-out. But who is writing them? How are they able to predict her future so accurately? And what can Jade do to re-write the script? ‘I TORE THROUGH SCRIPTED IN A COUPLE OF DAYS. A DELIGHT OF A READ - I DEFY YOU NOT TO RELATE TO THE CHARACTERS’ Jennie Godfrey ‘A GREAT NOVEL ABOUT TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR OWN LIFE' Matt Haig 'UPLIFTING AND HEARTFELT' Grazia ©2024 Fearne Cotton (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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Dear Dotty: A Novel by Jaclyn Westlake

Jun 4, 202410:35:00Tap to summarize

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/709895to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dear Dotty: A Novel Author: Jaclyn Westlake Narrator: Ariel Blake Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 35 minutes Release date: June 4, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: Rosie Benson does not have it all together. Like most twenty-somethings, she struggles to figure out life and soon finds herself following the advice of her late great-aunt through a series of revelatory emails about pursuing long-buried dreams rather than society’s idea of perfect in this fun, highly relatable debut. Perfect for fans of Beth O’Leary, Lizzie Damilola Blackburn, and Sophie Kinsella. “Compelling characters, a page-turning plot, and laugh-out-loud humor…A remarkable debut!” —Stacey Swann, author of GMA Book Club Pick Olympus, Texas What’s a twenty-something gal to do when her parents announce a divorce after thirty years of marriage, she finds out her best friend has cozied up to her archnemesis, and she accidentally sleeps with the Wrong Guy? Turn to her great-aunt for advice, of course. Rosie Benson has always struggled to fit in with her over-accomplished family, type-A roommate/best friend, and workaholic boss. But she’s nearly losing herself as she strives to become everyone else’s idea of perfect. When Rosie is abruptly fired from her job at a tech start-up where her boss was way too enthusiastic about synergy and company swag, the illusion that she has life figured out is shattered. Knowing she needs a push, her great-aunt Dotty—a globe-trotting, martini-swilling occasional nudist, and the only person Rosie has ever truly felt herself around—challenges her to pursue a long-buried dream, others’ expectations be damned. But then Dotty dies. And Rosie spirals. As new details of Dotty’s past emerge through revelatory emails from her many friends, Rosie realizes that maybe her aunt’s life wasn’t as charmed as she thought. With her career, friendships, and family unraveling, Rosie must drown out the noise of the world telling her what she should pursue—boyfriend, babies, boss-babe role at a corporate job—and finally focus on what she actually wants.

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My Alien Life: A Novelette by J. Martain

May 24, 202401:00:00Tap to summarize

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/654316to listen full audiobooks. Title: My Alien Life: A Novelette Series: #1 of Sometimes Stories Author: J. Martain Narrator: April Doty Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 0 minutes Release date: May 24, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A sassy and sweet coming-of-age story full of laughs, tears, and everyday strangeness. 'My mother was a no-nonsense woman. If it wasn’t in the Bible or on Jerry Springer, then it couldn’t happen. Of course, there’s a lot of freaky stuff in the Good Book, with ladders to heaven and angels with animal faces and such. And crazy, muckraking talk shows probably aren’t the best yardstick for anything short of how depraved humans can be. But the point is that when she was abducted by aliens and impregnated with me, she had some trouble processing.” — Lynette, aged 9 So begins this heartwarming, speculative tale of an unusual child who finds a home—and love—with her feisty Great-great-aunt Magnolia Rose McClellan. Set in rural North Carolina, this Southern fiction 'novelette' is short enough for a lunch break—though you may want to have some tissues handy!

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Breaststrokes: 'A study of womanhood, vulnerability, and the secrecy of the inner-life' – Rowan Hisayo Buchanan by Margaux Vialleron

May 9, 202408:17:00Tap to summarize

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/703642to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breaststrokes: 'A study of womanhood, vulnerability, and the secrecy of the inner-life' – Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Author: Margaux Vialleron Narrator: Beth Eyre Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 17 minutes Release date: May 9, 2024 Genres: Coming of Age Publisher's Summary: A novel on consent told in five acts over the course of one weekend. Cloe and Gertrude and the Jenkins-Bell sisters, Mathilde and Sarah, have never met. They are strangers who share a city. It is Sunday morning. Cloe has woken-up in someone else’s home; Gertrude starts her shift in the pub kitchen, while Mathilde and Sarah are on their way to lunch. Soon, these four women’s lives will overlap. Saturday felt like a normal day, but on Sunday the past will catch-up with them as they realise that there never is only one side to a story. Sharply observed and painfully relatable, Breaststrokes is a novel that seems to emerge from the haze of our current time. This story of unexpected encounters and intimacies is perfect for fans of Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Beautiful World, Where Are You. 'A study of womanhood, vulnerability, and the secrecy of the inner-life. Vialleron’s writing is laced with a love for these women who can barely love themselves. A novel for anyone interested in the way the body keeps score or in the complex intimacies between women' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan 'A tender, lyrical novel about the ripples caused when consent is taken away from women and the loneliness this causes, even when you're surrounded by people. It will tug at your heart strings’ Araminta Hall 'Reading Breaststrokes felt a little like watching ribbons unfurl – or intertwine. Margaux Vialleron writes tenderly and evocatively about female friendship, fear and desire' Chloë Ashby, author of Wet Paint and Second Self

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Open Minded: A Novel by Chloe Seager

Once More From The Top by Emily Layden

Slow Dance: A Novel by Rainbow Rowell

Gold Rush by Olivia Petter

I Love You, I Love You, I Love You by Laura Dockrill

Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly by Joanna Glen

Scripted by Fearne Cotton

Dear Dotty: A Novel by Jaclyn Westlake

My Alien Life: A Novelette by J. Martain

Breaststrokes: &#039;A study of womanhood, vulnerability, and the secrecy of the inner-life&#039; – Rowan Hisayo Buchanan by Margaux Vialleron

Breaststrokes: 'A study of womanhood, vulnerability, and the secrecy of the inner-life' – Rowan Hisayo Buchanan by Margaux Vialleron