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Katherine Littrell
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K Patrick
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A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transformative power of desire, and the dissonance between self and place, by White Review Fiction Prize shortlisted writer K Patrick
In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famous dead author who used to walk the halls, a butch antipodean outsider arrives to take up the antiquated role of “matron.” Within this landscape of immense privilege, where difference is met with hostility, the matron finds herself unsure of her role, her accent and her body.
That is until she meets Mrs. S, the headmaster’s wife, a woman who is her polar opposite—an assured, authoritative paragon of femininity. Over the course of a long, restless summer, their unspoken yearning blooms into an illicit affair of electric intensity. But, as the summer fades, a choice must be made.
Seductive, stylish, and disarmingly wry, K Patrick’s bold and revelatory debut smolders with the heat of summer as it explores the queer experience and the force of forbidden love.
©2023 K Patrick (P)2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Quotation on p.v by Hilda Doolittle, from Collected Poems, 1912–1944, © 1982 by The Estate of Hilda Doolittle.Listeners also enjoyed...
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Critic reviews
“Katherine Littrell's sultry voice is as luscious and irresistible as Patrick's prose in this steamy coming-of-age novel about a young woman who falls in love with the much older wife of the headmaster at the elite girls school where she works. Much of the novel takes place deep inside the unnamed protagonist's mind as she analyzes her own desires. Littrell masterfully voices her internal turmoil, alongside the sexy and often fraught scenes between her and Mrs. S. Littrell's characterization of the housemistress, the only other queer person in the narrator's life, is especially poignant. The scenes between the narrator and the housemistress come alive with laughter and camaraderie, in contrast to the pained intensity of the rest of the novel.”—AudioFile Magazine
“Patrick’s deft manipulation of narrative time and use of interior monologue to describe the tensions among thought, intention, and action recall the work of Virginia Woolf... The drama of the forbidden affair keeps the reader voraciously turning the pages, but on a deeper level, the novel also offers an incisive and nuanced reflection on self-evolution as the narrator navigates the complexities of gender identity, social power, and the dynamic tension between private and public selves. An erotic yet high-minded literary achievement.—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
“Revelatory... Patrick makes palpable the compromises required by secret love, and though the romance is aching and well crafted, what emerges above all is a fascinating character portrait, that of a woman obscure to the world but radiant inside.”—Publishers Weekly
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A cute romance, but light on character
- By RC on 08-27-24
By: Jennifer Dugan
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A Sweet Sting of Salt
- A Novel
- By: Rose Sutherland
- Narrated by: Aven Shore
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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When a sharp cry wakes Jean in the middle of the night during a terrible tempest, she’s convinced it must have been a dream. But when the cry comes again, Jean ventures outside and is shocked by what she discovers—a young woman in labor, drenched to the bone in the bitter cold and able to speak barely a word of English.
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Atmospheric in the Best of Ways—not to miss!
- By Syd Young on 04-11-24
By: Rose Sutherland
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Ordinary Love
- A Novel
- By: Marie Rutkoski
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Emily has, by all appearances, a perfect life: a townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, two healthy children, and a husband who showers her with attention. But the truth is more complicated: Emily’s marriage is in trouble, her relationship with her parents is fraught, and she is still nursing a heartbreak from long ago. When Emily runs into her high school girlfriend at a cocktail party, that heartbreak comes roaring back. But Gen Hall is no longer the lanky, hungry kid with holes in her shoes who Emily loved in her youth.
By: Marie Rutkoski
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Sirens & Muses
- A Novel
- By: Antonia Angress
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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It’s 2011: America is in a deep recession and Occupy Wall Street is escalating. But at the elite Wrynn College of Art, students paint and sculpt in a rarefied bubble. Louisa Arceneaux is a thoughtful, observant nineteen-year-old when she transfers to Wrynn as a scholarship student, but she soon finds herself adrift in an environment that prizes novelty over beauty. Complicating matters is Louisa’s unexpected attraction to her charismatic roommate, Karina Piontek, the preternaturally gifted but mercurial daughter of wealthy art collectors.
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Love the messiness! Everyone’s a mess!
- By Cierra Brown on 08-24-24
By: Antonia Angress
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A Game of Hearts and Heists
- Girl Games, Book 1
- By: Ruby Roe
- Narrated by: Islay Jacobs, Kyo Sija
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Scarlett Grey, disgraced assassin, is determined to get revenge. Quinn Adams, medic turned-poisoner for hire, is her deadliest rival. For years, they've stolen each other's clients, sabotaged each other's business, and occasionally… slept together. When the Magician Queen offers an irresistible deal, Scarlett and Quinn are forced to work together. But this is not a simple job. With an impossible heist ahead, they're going to have to trust each other… And that's not easy when they both have secrets to hide. Harder still when those secrets will betray the ones they love.
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Absolutely amazing.
- By Amanda on 01-17-24
By: Ruby Roe
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Open, Heaven
- A Novel
- By: Seán Hewitt
- Narrated by: Sebastian Croft
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Set in a remote village in the north of England, Open, Heaven unfolds over the course of one year in which two teenage boys meet and transform each other’s lives. James—a sheltered, shy sixteen-year-old—is alone in his newly discovered sexuality, full of an unruly desire but entirely inexperienced. As he is beginning to understand himself and his longings, he also realizes how his feelings threaten to separate him from his family and the rural community he has grown up in. He dreams of another life, fantasizing about what lies beyond the village’s leaf-ribboned boundaries.
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Besutiful Story Read by a Sweet Voice
- By ekell on 06-27-25
By: Seán Hewitt
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The Snowball Effect
- By: Haley Cass
- Narrated by: Lori Prince
- Length: 19 hrs
- Unabridged
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For the first time, Regan Gallagher is facing the world without her best friend by her side—no, Sutton isn't dead but she is in Rome, following her dreams. And Regan really is thrilled for her. Left to her own devices, she's doing . . . fine. Oh, except for the fact that her new roommate, Emma Bordeaux, has hated Regan since the literal day they'd met two years ago. Sure, most of their interactions end in disaster and Regan is the root cause, but they are all accidents! She'll win Emma over though; she's determined to make this living arrangement work come hell or high water.
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Love it!
- By Tera on 03-25-25
By: Haley Cass
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An Education in Malice
- By: S. T. Gibson
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua’s College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid girls. Here, secrets are currency, ambition is lifeblood, and strange ceremonies welcome students into the fold. On her first day of class, Laura Sheridan is thrust into an intense academic rivalry with the beautiful and enigmatic Carmilla. Together, they are drawn into the confidence of their demanding poetry professor, De Lafontaine, who holds her own dark obsession with Carmilla.
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Narration and writing are amazing
- By Anonymous User on 01-16-25
By: S. T. Gibson
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Stag Dance
- A Novel & Stories
- By: Torrey Peters
- Narrated by: Lee Osorio, Briggon Snow, Eileen Noonan, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In Stag Dance, the titular novel, a group of restless lumberjacks working in an illegal winter logging outfit plan a dance that some of them will volunteer to attend as women. When the broadest, strongest, plainest of the axmen announces his intention to dance as a woman, he finds himself caught in a strange rivalry with a pretty young jack, provoking a cascade of obsession, jealousy, and betrayal that will culminate on the big night in an astonishing vision of gender and transition.
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A Raw Look at the Trans (and Queer) Experience
- By Jessica on 06-10-25
By: Torrey Peters
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The Memory Police
- A Novel
- By: Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder - translator
- Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses - until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains forgotten. When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.
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A Calm, Quiet Dystopian
- By Booky Nooky on 12-13-19
By: Yoko Ogawa, and others
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The Safekeep
- By: Yael van der Wouden
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen, Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961—a powerful exploration of the legacy of WWII and the darker parts of our collective past.
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- By vanessa l graves on 01-08-25
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Dream On, Ramona Riley
- By: Ashley Herring Blake
- Narrated by: Gail Shalan
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Once upon a time, Ramona Riley was a student at a prestigious art school, with dreams of landing in Hollywood as a costume designer to the stars. But after her father’s car accident, she had to quit and return to her small New Hampshire town, Clover Lake, to help take care of her younger sister. Twelve years later, Ramona is still working at the town’s café, all but given up on her dream. But when a big-budget romantic comedy comes to Clover Lake to film, she wonders if this could be her chance.
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Dream On, Ramona Riley
- By MLTU on 06-01-25
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Hearing Red
- By: Nicole Maser
- Narrated by: Lori Prince
- Length: 15 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Saff, a determined new doctor in the first year of her internship, had clawed her way out of a tumultuous past, only to be dragged back into it when the zombie outbreak hits. Forced to join her estranged father and his band of raiders, she's confronted with the harsh reality that desperation can make monsters out of anyone—even her.
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Please give this book a chance!!
- By Ashley Diaz on 12-12-24
By: Nicole Maser
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House of Crimson Hearts
- Kingdom of Immortal Lovers, Book 1
- By: Ruby Roe
- Narrated by: Allie Rose, Anais Inara Chase
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Octavia Beaumont, one of the original three vampires, is determined to run the city. Red, an expert hunter, is hell-bent on getting revenge on the vampire that turned her sister. When deadly trials for the heir of the city begin, Red and Octavia are forced to work together. Octavia wants a crown. Red wants blood. But there's only one first place. To win, they're going to have to trust each other. But teamwork is not easy when their past is filled with betrayal… A betrayal Red can't remember. Someone is lying. Someone has a secret. Everyone has a hidden agenda.
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Not my cup of tea, but I'm sure others would enjoy
- By Fumaric on 01-15-25
By: Ruby Roe
Excellent performance and writing
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Discovery Squared
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Particularly enjoyed that the protagonist wasn't limited to one gender's societal conditioning; refreshing and empowering representation.
Great arc in protagonist's story.
Wonderful debut novel!
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The story: a slow burn, but when it escalates, it escalates. A really compelling foray into intergenerational queer romance.
Tremendous performance
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Bought on a whim 100% glad I did,
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Extraordinary
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Poetry & Passion
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