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The Lonely Hearts Book Club

By: Lucy Gilmore
Narrated by: Angie Kane
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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 Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Small Town & Rural Women's Fiction Feel-Good Heartfelt
Heartwarming Story • Relatable Characters • Emotional Journey • Unexpected Friendships • Literary References
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Narrator is pretty good, but too much scratchy mad sounding voice.

Very nice story

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

The narration

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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.

Almost gave up

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The distinct variety of voices the narrator made really helped me see the characters in my mind.

Variety of voices.

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

Horrible narrator.

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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.

Charming Tale

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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.

Lovely story

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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.

Unordinary book club

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I liked the arc of the story and the focus on Arthur, the elderly gentleman. I would have preferred if the narrator didn’t try to make accents for the characters. They were inconsistent and a bit annoying.

Great story

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Almost gave up reading it due to the narration but glad I didn’t. Good feel good story. Loved all the characters

Great ending

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