Baby & Solo Audiobook By Lisabeth Posthuma cover art

Baby & Solo

Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

Baby & Solo

By: Lisabeth Posthuma
Narrated by: Nick Walther
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $21.49

Buy for $21.49

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

It’s been two years since Joel last experienced What Was Wrong With Him and eight years since The Bad Thing Happened. Now Joel is 17 and seemingly “normal”, with a new prescription from his therapist: a part-time job. Joel finds work at the local video store amid a motley crew of young people who each answer to a movie character name (“Scarlet” from Gone with the Wind, “Poppins” for Mary Poppins, “The Godfather”, “Hannibal” - you get the idea). It’s a fresh start, and at ROYO Video Joel (who goes by “Solo”, after Han Solo) works to keep his tabula rasa while climbing the not-so-corporate ladder. Soon he befriends rough-around-the-edges “Baby” (from Dirty Dancing, though don’t even joke about putting her in a corner), a prickly girl with terrific taste in movies.

As circumstances throw Baby and Solo together, Joel realizes that for the first time in nearly a decade, he has a chance to make a real friend - one who wouldn’t land him back in the psychiatric ward. But as Baby pushes for Joel to open up to her, he starts to wonder if their friendship can possibly survive the devastating truths from his past. Set in a pop-culture-rich 1990s, this remarkable story tackles challenging and timely themes with huge doses of wit, power, and heart.

©2021 Lisabeth Posthuma (P)2021 Recorded Books
Coming of Age Death & Dying Depression & Mental Health Difficult Situations Literature & Fiction Mental Health Heartfelt
adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_webcro805_stickypopup
All stars
Most relevant  
Cheers to Baby & Solo!!! Thank you Lisabeth Posthuma for your touching story. I couldn’t put it down.

Cheers to Baby & Solo!!!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I don't tend to listen to too many YA books, but I really enjoyed this one. There were some interesting twists that developed as the characters and story evolved.

Great narration and story!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.