-
The Children Act
- Narrado por: Lindsay Duncan
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
No se pudo agregar al carrito
Add to Cart failed.
Error al Agregar a Lista de Deseos.
Error al eliminar de la lista de deseos.
Error al añadir a tu biblioteca
Error al seguir el podcast
Error al dejar de seguir el podcast
Compra ahora por $17.19
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
-
Lessons
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Simon McBurney
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.
-
-
Narrator Simon McBurney gets my 100% rating
- De Peggy M en 09-26-22
De: Ian McEwan
-
Machines Like Me
- A Novel
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality.
-
-
Very disappointed.
- De Tom en 05-25-19
De: Ian McEwan
-
Amsterdam
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prize-winning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was slowly destroyed by an illness, the two make a pact to save each other from enduring such a fate.
-
-
Make something, and die.
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-17
De: Ian McEwan
-
Atonement
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Jill Tanner
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In Atonement, three children lose their innocence, as the sweltering summer heat bears down on the hottest day in 1935, and their lives are changed forever. Cecilia Tallis is of England's priviledged class; Robbie Turner is the housekeeper's son. In their moment of intimate surrender, they are interrupted by Cecilia's hyperimaginative and scheming 13-year-old sister, Briony. And as chaos consumes the family, Briony commits a crime, the guilt of which she shall carry throughout her life.
-
-
An amazing book about complex human perception
- De Amazon Customer en 08-17-04
De: Ian McEwan
-
On Chesil Beach
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Ian McEwan
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come.
-
-
One of the best new novels in recent years
- De George en 06-13-07
De: Ian McEwan
-
The Innocent
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: John Franklyn-Robbins
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
War-weary Berlin has much to offer Leonard Markham, a young, naive postal engineer: first the arts of sophisticated intrigue, then the delights of sexual pleasure. But Leonard's new knowledge carries a heavy price, dragging him and the listener into a new type of story that is exhaustively suspenseful and utterly irresistible.
-
-
A little gem
- De Geoffrey en 08-19-04
De: Ian McEwan
-
Lessons
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Simon McBurney
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.
-
-
Narrator Simon McBurney gets my 100% rating
- De Peggy M en 09-26-22
De: Ian McEwan
-
Machines Like Me
- A Novel
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality.
-
-
Very disappointed.
- De Tom en 05-25-19
De: Ian McEwan
-
Amsterdam
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prize-winning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was slowly destroyed by an illness, the two make a pact to save each other from enduring such a fate.
-
-
Make something, and die.
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-17
De: Ian McEwan
-
Atonement
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Jill Tanner
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In Atonement, three children lose their innocence, as the sweltering summer heat bears down on the hottest day in 1935, and their lives are changed forever. Cecilia Tallis is of England's priviledged class; Robbie Turner is the housekeeper's son. In their moment of intimate surrender, they are interrupted by Cecilia's hyperimaginative and scheming 13-year-old sister, Briony. And as chaos consumes the family, Briony commits a crime, the guilt of which she shall carry throughout her life.
-
-
An amazing book about complex human perception
- De Amazon Customer en 08-17-04
De: Ian McEwan
-
On Chesil Beach
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Ian McEwan
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come.
-
-
One of the best new novels in recent years
- De George en 06-13-07
De: Ian McEwan
-
The Innocent
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: John Franklyn-Robbins
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
War-weary Berlin has much to offer Leonard Markham, a young, naive postal engineer: first the arts of sophisticated intrigue, then the delights of sexual pleasure. But Leonard's new knowledge carries a heavy price, dragging him and the listener into a new type of story that is exhaustively suspenseful and utterly irresistible.
-
-
A little gem
- De Geoffrey en 08-19-04
De: Ian McEwan
-
Nutshell
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Rory Kinnear
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
From the best-selling author of Atonement, Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour is just a speck in the universe of possible things?
-
-
The Long Version, and the Short.
- De Ilana en 09-19-16
De: Ian McEwan
-
Tom Lake
- A Novel
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Meryl Streep
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
-
-
So incredibly boring
- De Rhonda Morrison en 08-05-23
De: Ann Patchett
-
Saturday
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan's novels have inspired sweeping critical acclaim and won such prestigious awards as the Booker Prize for Amsterdam and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his modern masterpiece, Atonement. With Saturday, McEwan has crafted perhaps his most unique achievement to date.
-
-
Extraordinary
- De Madrid en 04-25-05
De: Ian McEwan
-
The Covenant of Water
- De: Abraham Verghese
- Narrado por: Abraham Verghese
- Duración: 31 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala’s long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time.
-
-
Story Telling At Its Best
- De Regina en 05-06-23
De: Abraham Verghese
-
Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- De: Hernan Diaz
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.
-
-
Before Purchasing
- De JLDLOfficial en 08-13-22
De: Hernan Diaz
-
The Cockroach
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Bill Nighy
- Duración: 2 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain - and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way; not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy. In this bitingly funny Kafkaesque satire, Ian McEwan engages with scabrous humor a very recognizable political world and turns it on its head.
-
-
An excellent parody on life during Brexit
- De Kate Juliff en 11-28-19
De: Ian McEwan
-
Lucy by the Sea
- A Novel
- De: Elizabeth Strout
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it’s just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea. Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy by the Sea vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation, as well as the hope, peace, and possibilities that those long, quiet days can inspire.
-
-
Narrator
- De J. O'Connor en 09-22-22
De: Elizabeth Strout
-
Commonwealth
- De: Ann Patchett
- Narrado por: Hope Davis
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly - thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining of two families.
-
-
Patchett and Me--In-sympatico
- De Mel en 09-18-16
De: Ann Patchett
-
Flight Behavior
- De: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver
- Duración: 16 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at 17. Now, after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm, she encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with what looks like a lake of fire. She can only understand it as a cautionary miracle, but it sparks a raft of other explanations from scientists, religious leaders, and the media.
-
-
A poignant literary work of art.
- De criswithcurls en 02-08-13
-
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- A Novel
- De: Milan Kundera, Michael Henry Heim - translator
- Narrado por: Richmond Hoxie
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals—while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel “the unbearable lightness of being."
-
-
Love, Politics, and Strange Bedfellows
- De Mel en 07-01-12
De: Milan Kundera, y otros
-
The Pact
- De: Jodi Picoult
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 16 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The Hartes and the Golds have been neighbors for 18 years and are very close. So when Chris and Emily's friendship reaches the next level, nobody is surprised. Then one night, the hospital calls. Seventeen-year-old Emily is dead - shot in the head by a gun Chris took from his father's cabinet. One bullet remains in the chamber, and Chris tells of his suicide pact with Emily. But the police have questions, and soon Chris is on trial for murder.
-
-
A little less drama, a lot more substance, please
- De Karen en 02-02-08
De: Jodi Picoult
-
The Cider House Rules
- De: John Irving
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 24 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
From one of America's most beloved and respected writers comes the classic story of Homer Wells, an orphan, and Wilbur Larch, a doctor without children of his own, who develop an extraordinary bond with one another.
-
-
Wonderful
- De Patricia B Tripoli en 07-02-07
De: John Irving
Resumen del Editor
A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam.
Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the course of action to ensure a child's welfare obvious. But the law requires more rigor than mere pragmatism, and Fiona is expert in considering the sensitivities of culture and religion when handing down her verdicts. But Fiona's professional success belies domestic strife. Her husband, Jack, asks her to consider an open marriage and, after an argument, moves out of their house. His departure leaves her adrift, wondering whether it was not love she had lost so much as a modern form of respectability; whether it was not contempt and ostracism she really fears.
She decides to throw herself into her work, especially a complex case involving a 17-year-old boy whose parents will not permit a lifesaving blood transfusion because it conflicts with their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses. But Jack doesn't leave her thoughts, and the pressure to resolve the case - as well as her crumbling marriage - tests Fiona in ways that will keep listeners thoroughly enthralled until the last stunning page.
Relacionado con este tema
-
Amsterdam
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prize-winning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was slowly destroyed by an illness, the two make a pact to save each other from enduring such a fate.
-
-
Make something, and die.
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-17
De: Ian McEwan
-
Philomena
- A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search
- De: Martin Sixsmith
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 15 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Now a major motion picture directed by Stephen Frears ( The Queen, High Fidelity) and starring Judi Dench ( Skyfall, Notes on a Scandal) and Steve Coogan ( The Trip, Hamlet 2): the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years. When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman". Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him.
-
-
Very Moving Story
- De Cariola en 02-09-14
De: Martin Sixsmith
-
Three Daughters of Eve
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Alix Dunmore
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor.
-
-
Review 3 daughters of Eve
- De CA en 04-28-18
De: Elif Shafak
-
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
- Stories
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon, Piter Marek, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In "Books and Roses", one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers' fates. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?", an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppeteering school. "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks", where doors can be closed only with a key - with surprising unobservable developments. And in "If a Book Is Locked There's Probably a Good Reason for That Don't You Think", a key keeps a mystical diary locked (for good reason).
-
-
clever
- De jared rogerson en 03-15-18
De: Helen Oyeyemi
-
Death at La Fenice
- Commissario Brunetti Mysteries, Book 1
- De: Donna Leon
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, a notoriously difficult and widely disliked German conductor is poisoned—and suspects abound. Guido Brunetti, a native Venetian, sets out to unravel the mystery behind the high-profile murder. To do so, he calls on his knowledge of Venice, its culture, and its dirty politics. Along the way, he finds the crime may have roots going back decades—and that revenge, corruption, and even Italian cuisine may play a role.
-
-
Hercule Poirot in Venice...!!!
- De Emil Grancagnolo en 10-09-22
De: Donna Leon
-
A Happy Marriage
- A Novel
- De: Rafael Yglesias
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
A Happy Marriage is both intimate and expansive: It is the story of Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, a novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret’s life as she says good-bye to her family, friends, children, and Enrique.
-
-
A Difficult Review -- A Difficult Read
- De Lulu en 06-04-12
De: Rafael Yglesias
-
Amsterdam
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prize-winning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was slowly destroyed by an illness, the two make a pact to save each other from enduring such a fate.
-
-
Make something, and die.
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-17
De: Ian McEwan
-
Philomena
- A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search
- De: Martin Sixsmith
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 15 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Now a major motion picture directed by Stephen Frears ( The Queen, High Fidelity) and starring Judi Dench ( Skyfall, Notes on a Scandal) and Steve Coogan ( The Trip, Hamlet 2): the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years. When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman". Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him.
-
-
Very Moving Story
- De Cariola en 02-09-14
De: Martin Sixsmith
-
Three Daughters of Eve
- De: Elif Shafak
- Narrado por: Alix Dunmore
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal. Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor.
-
-
Review 3 daughters of Eve
- De CA en 04-28-18
De: Elif Shafak
-
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
- Stories
- De: Helen Oyeyemi
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon, Piter Marek, Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In "Books and Roses", one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers' fates. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?", an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppeteering school. "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks", where doors can be closed only with a key - with surprising unobservable developments. And in "If a Book Is Locked There's Probably a Good Reason for That Don't You Think", a key keeps a mystical diary locked (for good reason).
-
-
clever
- De jared rogerson en 03-15-18
De: Helen Oyeyemi
-
Death at La Fenice
- Commissario Brunetti Mysteries, Book 1
- De: Donna Leon
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
During intermission at the famed La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy, a notoriously difficult and widely disliked German conductor is poisoned—and suspects abound. Guido Brunetti, a native Venetian, sets out to unravel the mystery behind the high-profile murder. To do so, he calls on his knowledge of Venice, its culture, and its dirty politics. Along the way, he finds the crime may have roots going back decades—and that revenge, corruption, and even Italian cuisine may play a role.
-
-
Hercule Poirot in Venice...!!!
- De Emil Grancagnolo en 10-09-22
De: Donna Leon
-
A Happy Marriage
- A Novel
- De: Rafael Yglesias
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
A Happy Marriage is both intimate and expansive: It is the story of Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, a novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret’s life as she says good-bye to her family, friends, children, and Enrique.
-
-
A Difficult Review -- A Difficult Read
- De Lulu en 06-04-12
De: Rafael Yglesias
-
The Good Liar
- A Novel
- De: Nicholas Searle
- Narrado por: Matthew Brenher
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Veteran con artist Roy spots an obvious easy mark when he meets Betty, a wealthy widow, online. In no time at all, he's moved into Betty's lovely cottage and is preparing to accompany her on a romantic trip to Europe. Betty's grandson disapproves of their blossoming relationship, but Roy is sure this scheme will be a success. He knows what he's doing. As this remarkable feat of storytelling weaves together Roy's and Betty's futures, it also unwinds their pasts.
-
-
Hope the movie is better than the book?
- De S. Smith en 10-17-19
De: Nicholas Searle
-
The Sunday Philosophy Club
- An Isabel Dalhousie Mystery
- De: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrado por: Davina Porter
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
New York Times best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith, winner of the first-ever Saga Award for Wit, has entertained millions with his beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency mysteries. Now this phenomenally popular author introduces a fresh series, brimming with the charm and humor his stable of dedicated fans can't get enough of.
-
-
Advice For Prospective Listeners
- De DCinMI en 02-18-13
-
The Submission
- A Novel
- De: Amy Waldman
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Claire Harwell hasn't settled into grief; events haven't let her. Cool, eloquent, raising two fatherless children, Claire has emerged as the most visible of the 9/11 widows who became a potent political force in the aftermath of the catastrophe. She longs for her husband, but she has found her mission: she sits on a jury charged with selecting a fitting memorial for the victims of the attack.
-
-
Some books were meant to be read...
- De Barbara en 02-24-12
De: Amy Waldman
-
Now, Voyager
- Femmes Fatales
- De: Olive Higgins Prouty
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Boston blueblood Charlotte Vale has led an unhappy, sheltered life. Lonely, dowdy, repressed, and pushing 40, Charlotte finds salvation at a sanitarium, where she undergoes an emotional and physical transformation. After her extreme makeover, the new Charlotte tests her mettle by embarking on a cruise and finds herself in a torrid love affair with a married man which ends at the conclusion of the voyage. But only then can the real journey begin, as Charlotte is forced to navigate a new life for herself.
-
-
The Inspiration for The Movie Classic
- De Susie en 12-17-12
-
A Great Deliverance
- Inspector Lynley, Book 1
- De: Elizabeth George
- Narrado por: Donada Peters
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes Scotland Yard Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton. Along with the redoubtable Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, Lynley has been sent to solve a savage murder that has stunned the peaceful countryside. For fat, unlovely Roberta Teys has been found in her best dress, an ax in her lap, seated in the old stone barn beside her father's headless corpse. Her first and last words were "I did it. And I'm not sorry".
-
-
good debut novel
- De Stevon en 11-11-19
De: Elizabeth George
-
Rumpole of the Bailey [Recorded Books]
- De: John Mortimer
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In the first of six witty short stories, 60s-something English barrister, Horace Rumpole, takes on the younger generation both at home and in the hallowed courtroom—while offending his esteemed colleagues and his draconian wife, Hilda.
-
-
great fun
- De Amazon Customer en 09-28-16
De: John Mortimer
-
The Coroner
- De: M. R. Hall
- Narrado por: Sian Thomas
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When lawyer Jenny Cooper is appointed Severn Vale District Coroner, she's hoping for a quiet life and space to recover from a traumatic divorce, but the office she inherits from the recently deceased Harry Marshall contains neglected files hiding dark secrets and a trail of buried evidence. Could the tragic death in custody of a young boy be linked to the apparent suicide of a teenage prostitute and the fate of Marshall himself?
-
-
Best book of the year, so far.
- De karen en 05-11-13
De: M. R. Hall
-
Millard Salter's Last Day
- De: Jacob M. Appel
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In an effort to delay the frailty and isolation that comes with old age, psychiatrist Millard Salter decides to kill himself by the end of the day - but first he has to tie up some loose ends. These include a tête-à-tête with his youngest son, Lysander, who at 43 has yet to hold down a paying job; an unscheduled rendezvous with his first wife, Carol, whom he hasn't seen in 27 years; and a brief visit to the grave of his second wife, Isabelle. Complicating this plan, though, is Delilah, the widow with whom he has fallen in love in the past few months.
-
-
great storytelling....
- De Anna Marie Bair en 01-18-20
De: Jacob M. Appel
-
The Patriots
- A Novel
- De: Sana Krasikov
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren, George Guidall
- Duración: 22 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Florence Fein grows up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, in a family that is gaining a foothold in the middle class. At City College she becomes engaged politically with the left-leaning student groups, and eventually, in the midst of the Depression, she takes a job with a trade organization that has a position for her in Moscow. There, she falls in love with another expatriate American and has a son. Soon after, Florence is sent to a work camp and her son to an orphanage.
-
-
Point of View of characters, past and present collide
- De Angela Adams en 01-29-19
De: Sana Krasikov
-
The Schooldays of Jesus
- De: J. M. Coetzee
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog, Bolivar, to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon, and he should be at school. And so, with the guidance of the three sisters who own the farm where Simon and Ines work, David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky.
-
-
SEXUAL PERVERSION PRESENTED AS BRILLIANT
- De Amazon Customer en 09-29-18
De: J. M. Coetzee
-
Asylum
- De: Patrick McGrath
- Narrado por: Sir Ian McKellen
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting - a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Stella soon falls under the spell of Edgar Stark, a brilliant sculptor who has been confined to the hospital for murdering his wife in a psychotic rage. But Stella's knowledge of Edgar's crime is no hindrance to the volcanic attraction that ensues -a passion that will consume Stella's sanity and destroy her and the lives of those around her.
-
-
So enjoyed this book!
- De Mebythesea en 10-07-08
De: Patrick McGrath
-
Accident of Birth
- De: Heather Neff
- Narrado por: Myra Lucretia Taylor
- Duración: 13 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Reba Freeman has loved two men in her life. Her current husband, Carl, has supported her through their 20-year marriage and given her all the material wealth a suburban wife could hope for. Reba is comfortable, if not necessarily content, in her life with Carl and their blossoming teenage daughter, Marisa, until she learns that her first love and first husband, Joseph Thomas, has been detained by the World Court of Human Rights.
-
-
Good Listen
- De Tricia en 02-24-08
De: Heather Neff
Las personas que vieron esto también vieron...
-
Saturday
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan's novels have inspired sweeping critical acclaim and won such prestigious awards as the Booker Prize for Amsterdam and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his modern masterpiece, Atonement. With Saturday, McEwan has crafted perhaps his most unique achievement to date.
-
-
Extraordinary
- De Madrid en 04-25-05
De: Ian McEwan
-
Nutshell
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Rory Kinnear
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
From the best-selling author of Atonement, Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour is just a speck in the universe of possible things?
-
-
The Long Version, and the Short.
- De Ilana en 09-19-16
De: Ian McEwan
-
Sweet Tooth
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Winner of such prestigious honors as the Booker Prize and Whitbread Award, Ian McEwan is justifiably regarded as a modern master. Set in 1972, Sweet Tooth follows Cambridge student Serena Frome, whose intelligence and beauty land her a job with England's intelligence agency, MI5. In an attempt to monitor writers' politics, MI5 tasks Serena with infiltrating the literary circle of author Tom Healy. But soon matters of trust and identity subvert the operation.
-
-
Perfect Book for your Literary Sweet Tooth
- De Susianna en 11-18-12
De: Ian McEwan
-
Enduring Love
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
On a sunny afternoon, the middle-aged writer Joe Rose and his wife look up from their picnic in the countryside to see an elderly man desperately trying to anchor his giant helium balloon. Running to help, Joe is joined by other bystanders. But from that fateful day, one of them, Jed Parry, will begin to stalk Joe. Driven by religious zeal and misdirected love, the strange young man will slowly unravel each strand of Joe's life.
-
-
Thriller of the minds and relationships
- De EVERETT en 12-28-04
De: Ian McEwan
-
The Child in Time
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Two parents come to appreciate the forces of love and time after the disappearance of their daughter, Kate.
-
-
Not McEwan's Best Effort
- De Charles en 06-07-09
De: Ian McEwan
-
The Innocent
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: John Franklyn-Robbins
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
War-weary Berlin has much to offer Leonard Markham, a young, naive postal engineer: first the arts of sophisticated intrigue, then the delights of sexual pleasure. But Leonard's new knowledge carries a heavy price, dragging him and the listener into a new type of story that is exhaustively suspenseful and utterly irresistible.
-
-
A little gem
- De Geoffrey en 08-19-04
De: Ian McEwan
-
Saturday
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 10 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan's novels have inspired sweeping critical acclaim and won such prestigious awards as the Booker Prize for Amsterdam and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his modern masterpiece, Atonement. With Saturday, McEwan has crafted perhaps his most unique achievement to date.
-
-
Extraordinary
- De Madrid en 04-25-05
De: Ian McEwan
-
Nutshell
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Rory Kinnear
- Duración: 5 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
From the best-selling author of Atonement, Nutshell is a classic story of murder and deceit, told by a narrator with a perspective and voice unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master. To be bound in a nutshell, see the world in two inches of ivory, in a grain of sand. Why not, when all of literature, all of art, of human endeavour is just a speck in the universe of possible things?
-
-
The Long Version, and the Short.
- De Ilana en 09-19-16
De: Ian McEwan
-
Sweet Tooth
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Winner of such prestigious honors as the Booker Prize and Whitbread Award, Ian McEwan is justifiably regarded as a modern master. Set in 1972, Sweet Tooth follows Cambridge student Serena Frome, whose intelligence and beauty land her a job with England's intelligence agency, MI5. In an attempt to monitor writers' politics, MI5 tasks Serena with infiltrating the literary circle of author Tom Healy. But soon matters of trust and identity subvert the operation.
-
-
Perfect Book for your Literary Sweet Tooth
- De Susianna en 11-18-12
De: Ian McEwan
-
Enduring Love
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
On a sunny afternoon, the middle-aged writer Joe Rose and his wife look up from their picnic in the countryside to see an elderly man desperately trying to anchor his giant helium balloon. Running to help, Joe is joined by other bystanders. But from that fateful day, one of them, Jed Parry, will begin to stalk Joe. Driven by religious zeal and misdirected love, the strange young man will slowly unravel each strand of Joe's life.
-
-
Thriller of the minds and relationships
- De EVERETT en 12-28-04
De: Ian McEwan
-
The Child in Time
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Two parents come to appreciate the forces of love and time after the disappearance of their daughter, Kate.
-
-
Not McEwan's Best Effort
- De Charles en 06-07-09
De: Ian McEwan
-
The Innocent
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: John Franklyn-Robbins
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
War-weary Berlin has much to offer Leonard Markham, a young, naive postal engineer: first the arts of sophisticated intrigue, then the delights of sexual pleasure. But Leonard's new knowledge carries a heavy price, dragging him and the listener into a new type of story that is exhaustively suspenseful and utterly irresistible.
-
-
A little gem
- De Geoffrey en 08-19-04
De: Ian McEwan
-
Solar
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Roger Allam, Ian McEwan
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard is fast approaching 60, a mere shell of the academic titan he once was. While his fifth marriage falls apart, Michael suddenly finds himself with an unexpected opportunity to reinvigorate his career and possibly save humankind from the growing threat of global warming.
-
-
What a disappointment
- De SharkHunterSFO en 04-02-10
De: Ian McEwan
-
Lessons
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Simon McBurney
- Duración: 17 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.
-
-
Narrator Simon McBurney gets my 100% rating
- De Peggy M en 09-26-22
De: Ian McEwan
-
Machines Like Me
- A Novel
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality.
-
-
Very disappointed.
- De Tom en 05-25-19
De: Ian McEwan
-
The Cement Garden
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 4 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
One of the world's most acclaimed novelists, New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan has earned the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. After their parents die, four children are left alone in the family house. They are free to live however they choose, but they must preserve their terrible secret.
-
-
One of his best
- De Yennta en 04-03-10
De: Ian McEwan
-
The Cockroach
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Bill Nighy
- Duración: 2 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain - and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way; not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy. In this bitingly funny Kafkaesque satire, Ian McEwan engages with scabrous humor a very recognizable political world and turns it on its head.
-
-
An excellent parody on life during Brexit
- De Kate Juliff en 11-28-19
De: Ian McEwan
-
The Comfort of Strangers
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 4 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan has won the Booker Prize, Whitbread Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his masterfully accomplished fiction. The Comfort of Strangers is an exquisitely crafted gothic novella. On holiday, Colin and Maria wander the ancient streets of Venice and frequently lose their way. When they are accosted by a man with a strange and alluring story to tell, they soon become entwined in a fantasy of violence and erotic obsession.
-
-
Mysterious, bizarre
- De EVERETT en 07-21-07
De: Ian McEwan
-
Amsterdam
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 4 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
The best-selling author of Atonement and Enduring Love, Ian McEwan is known as one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed writers. This Booker Prize-winning novel by McEwan finds two men connecting at the funeral of their ex-lover. Distressed by how she was slowly destroyed by an illness, the two make a pact to save each other from enduring such a fate.
-
-
Make something, and die.
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-17
De: Ian McEwan
-
On Chesil Beach
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Ian McEwan
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and Florence arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their worries about the wedding night to come.
-
-
One of the best new novels in recent years
- De George en 06-13-07
De: Ian McEwan
-
Atonement
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Jill Tanner
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
In Atonement, three children lose their innocence, as the sweltering summer heat bears down on the hottest day in 1935, and their lives are changed forever. Cecilia Tallis is of England's priviledged class; Robbie Turner is the housekeeper's son. In their moment of intimate surrender, they are interrupted by Cecilia's hyperimaginative and scheming 13-year-old sister, Briony. And as chaos consumes the family, Briony commits a crime, the guilt of which she shall carry throughout her life.
-
-
An amazing book about complex human perception
- De Amazon Customer en 08-17-04
De: Ian McEwan
-
The Daydreamer
- De: Ian McEwan
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 2 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Internationally best-selling author and Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan presents his first book for children, The Daydreamer. Peter Fortune is unlike most kids his age. In fact, he's different from everybody else in the world. Peter has the amazing ability to make his daydreams come true. A captivating narration from Simon Prebble brings McEwan's imaginative and adventurous story to vivid life for listeners of all ages.
-
-
Charming and Sweet!!!
- De Matthew S. Hill en 03-27-17
De: Ian McEwan
-
Night Music
- De: Jojo Moyes
- Narrado por: Clare Corbett
- Duración: 11 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
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 is a potential lifeline - the only hope she has of providing for her two children without having to sell her most treasured possession.
-
-
Extremely valuable book!
- De karen en 09-11-14
De: Jojo Moyes
-
CyberStorm
- De: Matthew Mather
- Narrado por: Tom Taylorson
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
-
General
-
Narración:
-
Historia
Sometimes the worst storms aren't from Mother Nature, and sometimes the worst nightmares aren't the ones in our heads. Mike Mitchell, an average New Yorker already struggling to keep his family together, suddenly finds himself fighting just to keep them alive when an increasingly bizarre string of disasters starts appearing on the world's news networks. As both the real world and the cyber world come crashing down, bending perception and reality, a monster snowstorm cuts New York off from the world, turning it into a wintry tomb where nothing is what it seems.
-
-
Yes - satisfied a craving
- De Jan en 01-14-14
De: Matthew Mather
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Children Act
Calificaciones medias de los clientesReseñas - Selecciona las pestañas a continuación para cambiar el origen de las reseñas.
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Ilana
- 10-19-14
Far-Reaching Consequences
Fiona Maye is a British judge assigned to child welfare cases. One of her more recent cases has involved deciding against the parents of conjoined siamese twins who shared vital organs. One of the twins had chances of surviving if the twins were separated, while the other was sure to die. If they were not separated, both would have died. The parents wanted to let God and nature take their course. Fiona made the decision to let the stronger twin have a chance at life. Fiona's difficult professional life has had repercussions on her long-term marriage. Now nearing sixty, she no longer craves intimacy with her husband after all the accumulated stress. Her husband on the other hand decides what he needs is one last grand passion and wants to have his cake and eat it too, so tells Fiona he'd like to have an affair with a young woman, yet keep the marriage intact, which doesn't suit Fiona in the least.
Then another complicated case falls in her lap. A young Jehova's Witness, not yet eighteen years old, the age of medical consent in England, is urgently in need of blood transfusions. The hospital has made an appeal to the court, as without the transfusions, the leukemia he suffers from is bound to kill him in a painful way. Both the parents and Adam, the young man himself, are against the procedure on religious grounds, though the parents ultimately leave the choice in Adam's hands. For reasons she doesn't quite understand herself, Fiona feels compelled to make the trip to the hospital and meet Adam in person to see what should be done, and eventually persuades him to go through with the procedure. The consequences will have far-reaching consequences.
This was a very good book and ultimately seemed to me more about relationships and the impact individuals have upon each other than about medical and legal issues, which ultimately, was much more interesting to me. Excellent narration by Lindsay Duncan—I would gladly listen to more audiobooks read by her.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 12 personas
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- BHL
- 10-13-14
Satisfying and Compact
Fiona is in the driver's seat of both her personal and professional lives but she is also aging and world weary. She is a highly respected judge, beloved wife and accomplished musician, but is also selfish and self-absorbed, and at times not very likeable at all. Fiona skirts oblivion, however, as her husband throws down the gauntlet hoping to shake her from her malaise at the same time a young man at the center of a life or death legal judgment stirs her humanity. It is her enlightened understanding of these relationships that utimately restores the balance at the convergence of the personal and professional. The story satisfies in the end, but that end, we know, is still only a respite somewhere on a bittersweet and ambiguous road.
Ian McEwan got it right this time. The Children Act is a novella really, short and tightly structured, and introspective and private, like a good piece of chamber music. Lindsay Duncan, the narrator, does a nice, unobtrusive job.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 8 personas
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Lisa
- 11-06-16
Parts were really good
I would have given a higher rating if the story was just about the child that needed treatment, but the parents refused treatment based on religious beliefs. That part was well written and interesting. Unfortunately the rest of the story is based on the story of the judge and I found it tedious and boring. I think it is worth reading, but not the best book ever.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 1 persona
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- E F
- 04-25-16
Two sad people, a court and a hospital
I enjoyed listening to this story, it kept my attention and was worth my time. The author tells of a remote, chilly and professional judge touched by a passionate young man's misfortunes. The narration is good and adds to the story.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- JayDC
- 01-25-17
Powerful, devastating, lovely
Haunting story and beautiful use of language. Lindsay Duncan's narration was perfect - she brought the story to life.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- J. Dionne
- 04-24-16
Beautiful
This book jabs, lingers, touches deeply, plays on a multitude of emotions. It is a work of art. I could listen over and over and get lost in the words. Caracter development is superb. A short, tightly woven, profound book.
Made my top 5.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Latin Bunny
- 09-28-16
wonderfully written
so well written, it draws you in. really enjoyed it despite the delicate topics covered.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Cathie Dalziel
- 12-29-16
Subtle shivers
I loved it. This will definitely be one that I will return to again (and I usually don't do re-reads).
Lindsay Duncan does a fantastic job narrating The Children's Act.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Bonny
- 09-17-14
McEwan has written perfection in this novel.
Thank you, Ian McEwan, for writing exactly the book I've looked forward to for many months. Rationalism, science, biology, logic, law, and the absence of unnecessary drama and hyperbole are all things I prize in life, and it was a real pleasure to have them written so incredibly well in the character of Fiona Maye in The Children Act. Fiona is an English High Court judge in the Family Division who must decide the fate of Adam Henry, a 17-year-old Jehovah's Witness who has leukemia and is refusing a life-saving transfusion. Fiona is also dealing with a crisis in her personal life; her husband Jack has announced to her that “I love you, but before I drop dead, I want one big passionate affair.”
Some of the best parts of The Children Act are the beautifully reasoned details of several of Fiona's decisions. In her judgements, she tries to bring “reasonableness to hopeless situations.” Her decision in Adam's case has consequences that affect Fiona's personal life, and part of the miracle of this book is that McEwan writes this human drama without TV movie dramatics or bashing of religious beliefs. This is the first book I've read by Ian McEwan, and I'll approach some of his other books with a bit of trepidation, but The Children Act is about as close to perfection in a novel as I've ever read.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 57 personas
-
Total
-
Ejecución
-
Historia
- Joe Kraus
- 10-09-16
One of the Best at His Best: Justice vs. Love
Any additional comments?
I’m used to juxtaposing justice with mercy. That’s the conventional formula. In this, utterly skillful novel, McEwan changes the equation slightly so that justice finds itself in competition with love. It’s two of the cardinal virtues weighed against each other through the experiences of the all-too human Fiona Maye, a British family court judge known for her brilliant decisions. She takes as paramount the central claim of the decree referenced in the title – the Children Act – that the welfare of a child should always be paramount in any legal deliberation.
Before the novel begins, Fiona’s life has a kind of perfection to it. She is an acclaimed jurist, and her husband, an energetic classics professor, seems like her ideal match. The two are equally accomplished, and they’ve built a comfortable life together. It turns out it’s too comfortable, though, when her husband announces he intends to have an affair with a younger woman. He seems to be telling her in advance, asking for a kind of permission or shocking her into renewed passion in their marriage. As it is, he tells her, all marriages aspire to condition of siblinghood, and he feels more like a brother to her than a husband.
At the same time as her marriage crumbles, she finds herself with a challenging case: a 17 years and three months old boy has leukemia. He’s from a family of Jehova’s Witnesses, so they refuse medical treatment for him. Once Adam reaches 18, he can make the decision himself, but until then Fiona has to weigh the competing claims. She chooses a kind of powerful justice, one that flies in the face of religious absolutism but that takes faith seriously as a reasonable motive.
What follows is complicated, and I don’t want to risk a [SPOILER] without warning. Fiona, acting as dispassionately as she can under her personal emotional turmoil, inadvertently unleashes the demand for love from the Adam. He sees her as someone who has allowed him to glimpse a wider, more cosmopolitan world, and he wants her to play a kind of mother figure to him. Fiona and her husband have never had children, though – a decision incidental to her commitment to her judicial career – and, in the wake of their break-up and clumsy reunion, she feels her childlessness like never before. In one of the many superb passages of the book, she imagines how the children they might have had would have reacted: they’d have gathered around the kitchen table, trying to talk sense into dad and trying to make mom realize she bore some of the blame. It’s a seemingly effortless sketch, yet it packs the wallop of some entire novels. It’s a cry for the love she gave up in order to serve justice as she has.
As the novel nears its end, Fiona realizes with ever greater clarity that she cannot love without sacrificing something of justice. Whether it means forgiving her husband (and, implicitly, forgoing her righteous sense of betrayal) or being present for Adam and compromising her role as a judge, she simply cannot contain both virtues simultaneously.
You know you’re in capable hands from the moment you read the opening pages. I think I read McEwan’s Atonement 20 or so years ago, around the time it came out, and even though I’ve forgotten the particulars of the book, I found a familiar excellence of skill as soon as I started reading this. McEwan writes with true clarity: a clarity not just of language and character, but of moral terminology as well. You know right away that this is about something, that it isn’t merely a story of interesting characters (though it is that as well).
The final scene here is nothing short of a masterpiece. It carries the same emotional weight (and, I’d insist, speaks indirectly to) the climax of James Joyce’s “The Dead.” I don’t make that comparison lightly: McEwan may not be quite as efficient here as Joyce is there, but the result is that good. Two flawed humans realize how small they are beside the weight of others’ passions, but they realize as well some of their capacity to lighten each other’s burden, to offer love as a salve to the necessary weakness of all of us.
I might have wished for a little more consistency from Adam as a character (there is a little convenience to the way his passions swing back and forth), but it’s hard to imagine any other fault in this one. I knew of McEwan as one of the world’s great living writers before I picked this up. Reputation confirmed.
Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.
Has calificado esta reseña.
Reportaste esta reseña
esto le resultó útil a 8 personas