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Narrated by:
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Annabelle Dowler
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Elle Newlands
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By:
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Anstey Harris
About this listen
She thought she knew her best friend…She was wrong.
The weatherworn cottage Clachan has always been Jo Wilding’s sanctuary, a blissful escape from her tumultuous home life. From the first summer Rachel invited her to join the Willoughby family in the wilds of Scotland, she fell in love with the sea air, sandy beach and Tristan, Rachel’s older brother…
All these years later, Clachan is where their most important occasions and conversations take place, so when Rachel organises a weekend there, Jo never suspects that this weekend will change everything. Because it turns out Rachel has been keeping a secret, a betrayal that plunges Jo into a past she’s spent years trying to forget.
Left to untangle the pieces of their past alone, Jo has to decide if there is such a thing as forgiveness when there is no one left to forgive?
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“Gorgeously written, evocative and compelling, The House of Lost Secrets is a heartfelt ode to female friendships. It's a hauntingly beautiful, poignant story about complex relationships and the power of forgiveness. I highly recommend it.” —Sarah J. Harris, author of Meet Me On The Bridge
“The House of Lost Secrets by Anstey Harris is a beautifully crafted study of lifelong friendship. The story is shot through with mystery and those terrible secrets we keep from the people closest to us for fear of destabilising everything we know and believe. This richly layered novel drew me in more deeply with every page turn, holding me tightly until each truth was finally revealed. A truly compelling read.” —Imogen Clark, author of Postcards from a Stranger
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Tig Costello has arrived in Darren, Kentucky, commissioned to paint a portrait honoring her grandfather Benjamin. His contributions to the rural Appalachian town and his unimpeachable war service have made him a local hero. But to Tig, he’s a relative stranger. To find out more about him, Tig wants to talk to the person who knew her grandfather best: Eloise Price, the woman who murdered him fifty years ago.
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Excellent
- By Jen Novak on 12-28-24
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When I First Held You
- By: Anstey Harris
- Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown, Helen Lloyd
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1960s Glasgow, anti-nuclear activists Judith and Jimmy fall in love. But their future hopes are dashed when their protestors’ squat is raided and many, including Jimmy, are sent to prison. Pregnant and with no word from Jimmy, Judith is forced to enter an unmarried mothers’ home, give up their baby and learn to live with her grief.
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Beautiful writing with dynamic characters
- By Kate on 01-13-25
By: Anstey Harris
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Nowhere Like Home
- A Novel
- By: Sara Shepard
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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When Lenna gets a call from her old friend Rhiannon, she is startled; Rhiannon disappeared years ago without a trace. But Lenna is even more startled to learn that Rhiannon has a son and that she lives off the grid with a group of women in a community called Halcyon. Rhiannon invites Lenna, a new mother herself, to join them. Why suffer the sleepless nights by yourself? It takes a village, after all. Lenna decides to go and hopefully repair her relationship with Rhiannon, but as she drives into the desert and her cell service gets weaker, she becomes suspicious.
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The ending!
- By Kathrene L. Beasley on 03-11-25
By: Sara Shepard
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The Bordeaux Book Club
- By: Gillian Harvey
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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When Leah and her husband moved to France, it was with the dream of becoming self-sufficient. But in truth, it’s not the ‘good life’ she’d imagined, as three hours of digging barely yield a single straggly carrot. Worse, her teenage daughter is acting up, and her husband seems to find every strange excuse under the hot French sun to disappear. So when her friend entreats her to join the new book club she’s forming, Leah decides it’s something she will do for herself.
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Delightful!
- By Allison Ruggenberg on 06-03-24
By: Gillian Harvey
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Last Night
- By: Luanne Rice
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione, Nicol Zanzarella
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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A fierce blizzard is burying the eastern seaboard, but on the icy Rhode Island shore renowned artist Maddie Morrison finds warm sanctuary from a contentious divorce at the legendary Ocean House. Hours later, her body is found buried under a blanket of snow and her little daughter, CeCe, has disappeared without a trace.
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Bad
- By Melissa McCobb Hubbell on 02-09-24
By: Luanne Rice
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Watch Us Shine
- A Novel
- By: Marisa de los Santos
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Nan McNamara
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Cornelia Brown is reeling from a terrifying act of violence when she gets word that her mother has been badly injured in an accident. Cornelia returns to Virginia, to the house she grew up in, and in the weeks that follow, she watches her mother Ellie struggle to recover, fluctuating between her usual crisp, can-do clarity and periods of delirium during which she seems haunted by a devastating loss from her past. In grief-stricken tones, Ellie begs Cornelia to bring her the Northern Lights, and despite her confusion at this mysterious plea, Cornelia vows to do so.
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Great story
- By KAT-AQ on 09-23-24
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When the Summer Was Ours
- A Novel
- By: Roxanne Veletzos
- Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers, Jacques Roy
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Hungary, 1943: As war encroaches on the country’s borders, willful young Eva César arrives in the idyllic town of Sopron to spend her last summer as a single woman on her aristocratic family’s estate. Longing for freedom from her domineering father, she counts the days to her upcoming nuptials to a kind and dedicated Red Cross doctor whom she greatly admires. But Eva’s life changes when she meets Aleandro, a charming and passionate Romani fiddler and artist.
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A story of hope and struggle.
- By holly clark on 04-29-25
By: Roxanne Veletzos
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Friends of Dorothy
- By: Sandi Toksvig
- Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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After much searching, Amber and Stevie find the perfect house - a bit shabby but with potential - in Grimaldi Square. Just the two of them; a place where they can start their lives together. Recently married, they want to begin a family (with the help of their gay best friend, Jack). Despite the rundown pub across the way, the overgrown garden and a decidedly nosy neighbour, it's the house of their dreams. But they are not alone in this dream.
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Who doesn’t love Sandi Toksvig ???
- By Reem seraj on 10-13-24
By: Sandi Toksvig
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What the Light Touches
- A Novel
- By: Xavier Bosch, Samantha Mateo - translator
- Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Seventeen-year-old Margaux doesn’t realize one photo could change the course of her life. But in German-occupied Paris, nothing makes sense anymore. Margaux fears the worst when her lover is arrested. And when her photo appears in Nazi propaganda, her family’s reputation and prospects suffer the consequences. In 2008, Margaux has moved into a retirement home, and her granddaughter Barbara continues to live in the Paris apartment they used to share.
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Excellent
- By Book Bug! on 04-14-25
By: Xavier Bosch, and others
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Hurt for Me
- By: Heather Levy
- Narrated by: Ava Lucas
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Rae Dixon is lucky to be alive. Fifteen years ago, she survived being trafficked and abused, escaping her captors to reclaim her life. Now, she’s running a thriving business with her best friend and raising a teenage daughter on her own. Rae’s finally in control—literally. As Mistress V, Rae is the one calling the shots catering to Oklahoma City’s elite in her private dungeon, which is fronted by a spa. But when a client goes missing, Rae’s world spins out of control.
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Hooked from the start!
- By tessjones3 on 03-13-24
By: Heather Levy
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Swimming to Lundy
- By: Amanda Prowse
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Tawrie Gunn feels stuck. She’s spent her whole life in the same seaside town with her beloved Nana and grief-stricken mum, all of them still reeling in different ways from the tragic loss of Tawrie’s dad at sea. Desperate for a change, she challenges herself to take up wild swimming—every morning, no excuses, from March till September.
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Beautiful
- By 🌹ROSE🌷 on 10-22-24
By: Amanda Prowse
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If We Ever Get There
- A Novel
- By: Laura Barrow
- Narrated by: Megan Tusing
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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When her nineteen-year marriage ends, stay-at-home mom Effie Baker takes the first step into her new life with an extreme makeover. She assumes she’ll wake up with a renewed sense of confidence, not a vision of country music icon Patsy Cline telling her she needs to “set things right.” But like everything else lately, the last thing Effie expected is exactly what she gets.
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Couldn’t Finish This One, It May Deserve a Lot More Stars
- By Jo from Texas on 12-11-24
By: Laura Barrow
Solid and Engaging
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Friendship, secrets and finding home
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Loved this story
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Excellent description of nature and houses but it's not particularly grounded in place and ZERO grounding in time.
For the first chapter, because the audio performer sounds elderly and there's no mention of Rachel or Jo's age, I kept trying to figure out how old these women were. I started with 80 and kept revising down by figuring out R's aunt was X age, therefore... and still. Finally I decide J is in her late 50s or early 60s. Nope, many chapters later the author says early 50s but then I get confused with pregnancy talk in the present and in the past when Jo was married to her second husband. And how old was she then? Now? But she was too old now and then for a baby.
I tried to figure out when this was taking place from the scenes in the present and the past. No luck. So few cultural references and still being unsure of her age... With good writing, it doesn't usually take long to figure this stuff out. I never did and was annoyed it was something I thought about for the whole book until the very end: Rachel: 1968 to 2023.
Still, it was interesting exploration into the grief of a best friend among other topics and I was never bored.
Good but not grounded in time...
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Engaging and complex
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Such a nice 'listen'.
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4 stars!
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How each character was dealing with their own issues
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Loved this from the start
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Friendship Defined
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