A good story spoiled

What made the experience of listening to This Must Be the Place the most enjoyable?

Maggie Farrell's skilful building of a story and its changes of time and place.

What was one of the most memorable moments of This Must Be the Place?

Bitter-sweet moments when the protagonists were stopped in their tracks by a memory.

What didn’t you like about Graham Rowat and Saskia Maarleveld ’s performance?

I find it intensely irritating when narrators can't pronounce quite simple foreign words properly. SK is clearly neither British nor American and I think one of either of those nationalities would have been better. 'Maman' and so many other instances of mispoken words.This really spoiled my enjoyment of a good story, my attention often being taken by irritating narration.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It made me sad for all the chararcters who seemed so lost most of the time.

Any additional comments?

I wish that Maggie Farrell would lose her maddening habit of making long lists of words, sometimes describing the same thing. Perhaps this is her signature?

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Wonderful book

I truly enjoyed this - and loved the female narrator. Something about the male narrator's reading voice very much annoyed me, though, which is why I can only award three stars for performance.

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Some narration problems but Maggie O’Farrell is worth it

Wandering story, and I almost stopped listening because of too fast-paced SM narration (wch I hot used to, she’s great) and wholly miscast GR voice for Daniel (inflection and cavalier tone drove me crazy). SM did a far better job speaking as Daniel and it would have been a better listening experience with just her as narrator. .

Ugh!

Definitely not one of my favorites. Apparently this was a comedy. There were far too many useless characters and the back and forth of time lines was a bit much. I was bored to tears.
It just wasn't for me. Don't let my opinion deter you away giving this book a listen or a read. Its just not my style, I suppose.

this must be the place

very good. but its 400 pages long so its 30 chapters and 14 hours of listening. even though like a book I did not want to stop listening and stayed up late to finish it. which of course I didn't. but if not paying attention closely you can get confused because the author jumps from past history of the characters to the present hence why 400 hundred pages. still a good book

A broad expanse of everyday, every man

So many well developed characters in so many storylines! I’m amazed how well it all fit together as a book, being easy to follow the diverse and interesting life adventures.

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I couldn't get through even half of the book. I struggled with it the entire time. very confusing and nothing gelled together.

Excellent story!

I loved this book and the readers. What’s not to love with all these related characters?

Pretty good

After hearing Maggie O'Farrell's books recommended by several people I decided to go with this as my first read. It was ok but but I just couldn't really get into it. I have since read other works by the author and enjoyed them more than this one. The book was ok but just not particularly memorable.

No hero, no one to root for, sad unlikeable people

I had just joined a book club with gals from all walks of life and with different beliefs - there were two running things we All agreed on, 1. the book was well written, and 2. No One liked this book - the book club comments all had the same theme - the characters were mostly vain - the book was one we had all agreed to read, yet was torturous getting through - and while well written, the story line and people left me feeling dirty and wishing I hadn’t read the book.