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The Midnight Library
- De : Matt Haig
- Lu par : Carey Mulligan
- Durée : 8 h et 49 min
- Version intégrale
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Global5 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 51
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Histoire4.5 out of 5 stars 51
Thirty-four-year-old Nora's life could be better. She's lonely, single and has just lost her job. Her cat dying feels like the last straw. What else is there to live for? Then she finds a library between life and death where she gets to try all the other lives she could have lived. The Midnight Library is a gloriously relatable novel about life, death and the in-between. It is about finding hope, playing chess, dumping regrets and picking the right people around you.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a life-changing read !
- Écrit par : maggy57 le 19/01/2021
- The Midnight Library
- De : Matt Haig
- Lu par : Carey Mulligan
The Midnight Library
Rédigé le : 19/11/2020
I loved every second of this story. The performance was superb and the concept of the library one I think I will remember for always. I lost my brother to depression and it is comforting to think that maybe he too ended up inside the midnight library in one life. Mrs Elm is a superb character. We all need a Mrs Elm in our lives. This book should be prescribed to anyone suffering from Depression or Anxiety. It is - in itself - the gift of life, and one can’t but hope that if listened to by someone at the right time, it might save a life one day.
Karen Webb
(Author of “A Stranger in Paris”)
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
- De : Kate Atkinson
- Lu par : Susan Jameson
- Durée : 12 h et 18 min
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Global5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars 2
Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster, telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marry George, but there she was, stuck in a flat above the pet shop in an ancient street beneath York Minster, with sensible and sardonic Patrica, aged five; greedy, cross-patch Gillian, who refused to be ignored; and Ruby...
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5 out of 5 stars
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Poignant masterpiece I will never forget
- Écrit par : Amazon Customer le 22/09/2019
- Behind the Scenes at the Museum
- De : Kate Atkinson
- Lu par : Susan Jameson
Poignant masterpiece I will never forget
Rédigé le : 22/09/2019
I first read Behind the Scenes aged 40 when it quickly shot into my top five of all time favourites. Ten years on it is even more poignant. I cannot read this book - or listen to it- without a physical reaction of guts wrenching. Bunty and her “autistic” mothering - how perfect a portrayal of the northern mother you so much hope will love you as a child. Her withering resentment. Her inadequacy. The perfect portrayal of my own northern mother. So much so - I wondered if we could be related. As this novel shows, you can be related to the most unexpected of people without knowing it! This book inspired me ten years ago to write - and I was published. My own portrayal of what it means to grow up and be a “just” Ruby was inspired by this novel. Thank you Kate Atkinson. I know I will come back to this book again and again. It can’t all be taken in one one reading.
Karen Webb (author of “A Stranger in Paris”)