The Lonely Hearts Book Club

By: Lucy Gilmore

Narrated by: Angie Kane

Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's summary

Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her. Their sparring is such a highlight of Sloane's day that when Arthur doesn't show up one morning, she's instantly concerned. And then another day passes, and another.

Anxious, Sloane tracks the old man down only to discover him all but bedridden...and desperately struggling to hide how happy he is to see her. Wanting to bring more cheer into Arthur's gloomy life, Sloane creates an impromptu book club. Slowly, the lonely misfits of their sleepy town begin to find each other and, in their book club, the joy of unlikely friendship—because, as it turns out, everyone has a special book in their heart...and a reason to get lost (and eventually found) within the pages.

©2023 Lucy Gilmore (P)2023 Dreamscape Media

Very nice story

Thanks for this story.

Narrator is pretty good, but too much scratchy mad sounding voice.

The narration

Fun and interesting story - made me laugh out loud - glad it had a happy ending.

Almost gave up

I really did not like the narrator’s grumpy, grouchy voice. Other voices were ok. I almost couldn’t finish. I was moderately interested in how the story would end so I held on. I would say the story was almost enjoyable.

Horrible narrator.

Tried to like it, that narrator just had zero range. I couldn't tell who was saying what most of the time.

Charming Tale

I love a book about books and this a sweet story about people who find common ground through books. People struggling thru the human condition alone until they find one another. It was charming and an easy listen.
Narration was not my favorite. Readers narration and main characters voice were fine but her male voices were not strong and the grumpy main characters sounds like a cartoon character. But still worthy of a listen, or maybe a read.

Lovely story

Loved the story but the narrator is a horrible actor. It was almost impossible to figure out what character she portrayed. All of the characters sounded the same.

Great book!

The author wove together an intriguing story with relatable characters. The references to literature was vey interesting and made me want to read Anne of Green Gables. Narrator did excellent job with voices and accents! We featured this book in our book club last night with very lively discussion!

Angie Kane brings the Voices to Life

Spoiler Alert!
Amazing Audible book. I fell in love with the characters mostly from Angie Kane's performance. 4 stars because the story could have gone on a few chapters longer. I wanted so much for Greg & Sloan to express their love for one another.

a book full of wonderful chara ters!

this is a well written, heart felt book about life! I loved every character and

Unordinary book club

I loved the vast differences in age and personalities of this book club. Needs were brought to light and friendships old and new developed beyond first impressions that would never have been given the time of day. It was delightful.