AuthorJojo Moyes
NarratorVarious
Duration16h 45m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Romance
PublisherClipper
VersionUnabridged
Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.
Ellindale Saga Book 4: One Perfect Family
Author: Anna Jacobs
Author Anna Jacobs
Narrator Anne Dover
SeriesEllindale Saga, Book 4
Duration 10h 46m
Lancashire, 1934. When Tam Crawford is unexpectedly bequeathed some money, he can finally realise his dream of settling down in the beautiful village of Ellindale. Tam knows he can be impulsive - his nickname isn't Crazy Tam for nothing! - but this time he is determined not to be ruled by his big heart and hot head. Yet somehow, within just one day...
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Author: Debbie Johnson
Author Debbie Johnson
Narrator Madeleine Hyland
Duration 9h 8m
Moving to the little village of Budbury, Zoe hopes the crisp Dorset sea breeze and gentle pace of life will be a fresh start for her and her goddaughter, Martha. Luckily for them both, the friendly community at the caf‚ provide listening ears, sage advice, shoulders to cry on and some truly excellent carrot cake. And when Martha's enigmatic,...
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If We're Not Married By Thirty
Author: Anna Bell
Author Anna Bell
Narrator Rebecca Courtney
Duration 12h 5m
A brilliantly funny, romantic and effervescent read, If We're Not Married by Thirty is the irresistible new novel from the bestselling author of The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart and It Started With a Tweet. Lydia's not exactly Living Her Best Life. She never imagined she'd be here at thirty - newly single, a job that's going nowhere and her f...
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Author: Abbey Clancy
Author Abbey Clancy
Narrator Elaine Fellows
Duration 8h 3m
Popstar Jessika Malone can't believe her luck! Not only has she signed a major record deal and is topping the charts with her latest single, she's just been offered the chance of a lifetime: a tour with gorgeous megastar Cooper Black... It's everything she's ever dreamed of - except that it means travelling thousands of miles from her boyfriend, Da...
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Author: Jojo Moyes
Author Jojo Moyes
Narrator Anna Acton
Duration 13h 37m
Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life. She is thrown into the world of the super-rich Gopniks: Leonard and his much younger second wife, Agnes. Before she knows what's happening, Lou is mixing in New York high society, where she meets Joshua Ryan, a man who brings with him a whisper of her past. Lou finds herself carrying secre...
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Author: Jojo Moyes
Author Jojo Moyes
Narrator Clare Corbett
Duration 12h 1m
The Spanish House is a mixture of designs, Georgian, Gothic and Moorish, as if whoever started it had simply got bored. It has long been known as an architectural folly to locals, and is now nearly derelict to boot. When its reclusive owner dies intestate, the Spanish House is left to his city-dwelling niece. For Isabel, recently widowed, the house...
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Author: Trisha Ashley
Author Trisha Ashley
Narrator Julia Barrie
Duration 12h 30m
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Author: Jojo Moyes
Author Jojo Moyes
Narrator Various
Duration 13h 10m
Number one bestseller The One Plus One is the beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling new novel by the internationally bestselling author Jojo Moyes. One eternal optimist... Jess Thomas, with two jobs and two kids and never enough money, wears flip flops in the hope of spring. And when life knocks her down she does her best to bounce right back....
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Author: Jojo Moyes
Author Jojo Moyes
Narrator Julia Franklin
Duration 17h 34m
Sarah's grandfather was a horseman of rare talent-only the exceptional are allowed into France's elite riding academy, Le Cadre Noir. But life took an unexpected turn, and now from a council estate in east London, the Captain hopes to train his granddaughter towards a better life. Natasha is a lawyer whose job is to represent the best interests of...
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Author: Jojo Moyes
Author Jojo Moyes
Narrator Julia Whelan
Duration 13h 52m
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James Louis 9 Aug 2021
Sad that this book is so popular
Unfortunately like a minority of other bestselling books, this is one of little merit, and is full of ableist saviourism. I would recommend against reading this, especially if one is disabled themselves.
The book’s protagonist Lou spends the book trying to ‘save’ Will, a quadriplegic man.
Will had an accident, leaving him with limited movement of one arm from a c5 spinal injury.
He is suicidal as he feels he is unable to live the life he wants to, and his family’s solution is to have him live in their annex and hire a carer (Lou) to watch over him every minute of the day.
After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, the family agrees that he can go to dignitas if he agrees to wait 6 months.
Lou secretly finds out about this from Will’s mum, and plans a series of ‘adventures’ to try to get Will out of the house and engaged with life again. One of the big resources she uses for ideas and advice is a forum for quadriplegics. However instead of putting Will in touch with others in similar positions, or telling him about the forum, Lou (as his mum also does) takes agency from him by deciding what would be best for him.
Inevitably, Lou (his paid carer) and Will fall in love.
But he still doesn’t want to live, and though at the end he asserts that the last six months were the best of his life, he still wants to die as he wants to be how he used to.
It’s littered with really disrespectful ableist language to describe Will- ‘cripple’, ‘useless arms’, questioning if someone like Will could fall in love or have a relationship. At least 5 different characters said specifically that no one would want to live like that (disabled/wheelchair user).
The grandad character seems to be a prop to give Lou’s family more financial burden. He is disabled, but it isn’t said how. He only has one line in the whole book ‘birthday cake’, though it seems he can also talk enough to offer his bedroom for use (although apparently no one liked how he made his room smell, so his offer was rejected).
The whole book is just based around non disabled saviourism, and is a really crappy book to be promoting on a service such as this.