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Narrated by:
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Jilly Bond
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Imogen Wilde
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By:
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Kate Storey
About this listen
‘A gorgeous story full of emotion and a very special library.’ – Evie Woods, bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop
Some stories stay with us forever…
For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library.
Each year, on her daughter’s birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves – with a note in the front dedicated to her own greatest work.
But Ella – Sally’s only child – fled to Australia twenty-one years ago after a heated exchange, and never looked back. And though Sally still dutifully adds a new paperback to the shelves every time the clock strikes midnight on July 11th, her hopes of her daughter ever thumbing through the pages are starting to dwindle.
Then disaster strikes and Ella is forced to return to the home she once knew.
She is soon to discover that when one chapter ends, another will soon follow.
All you have to do is turn the page…
Journey through the pages of this heartwarming novel, where hope, friendship and second chances are written in the margins. Perfect for book lovers everywhere and fans of Sally Page’s The Keeper of Stories.
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Critic reviews
'The Memory Library is so joyful. Kate Storey writes from the heart and the gut about mistakes and how we can learn from them. Great characters and a truly heartwarming story – I loved it!' Amazon Kindle bestselling author Laura Pearson
'The Memory Library is a joy and a delight from start to finish. A magical story and a magnificent celebration of the wonderful world of books and libraries – one to treasure and re-read over and over again.' USA Today bestselling author Celia Anderson
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Thisbe Chisholm wants to be a writer. It’s 2007, a time of digital revolution and skyrocketing property prices, but she’s an old-fashioned girl. She longs only to tell the stories written on her heart. While her best friends, Penny and Jane, and her darling boyfriend, John, seem set for stellar careers in their chosen fields, Thisbe works nights as a hostess at a glitzy harbourside Sydney club - a job she despises but has paid the rent for the last three years since university graduation.
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Loved it!
- By hansenfamily on 03-09-23
By: Kim Kelly
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It Had to Be You
- By: Beth Moran
- Narrated by: Rosalind Steele
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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Growing up, sisters Libby and Nicky never knew who they’d find at breakfast. Their parents fostered children of all ages, and although the girls loved playing their part in providing a safe haven, it meant that life was rarely peaceful. Now as a single mother of two, Libby’s life is still anything but peaceful.
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Beautiful & Real
- By Anonymous User on 08-17-24
By: Beth Moran
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The Garden of Memories
- By: Amanda James
- Narrated by: Elaine Claxton
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
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With nothing but time on her hands, retired nurse Rose Lanyon finds herself drawn to the garden that had once been her husband’s pride and joy.
It may have started as a means of honouring her husband’s memory, but her little Cornish garden soon becomes so much more – a place where the lost and lonely can find solace, the forgotten can be remembered, and second chances take bloom. Because, as long as new life is growing, there will always be hope and new memories to make.
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Feel good story
- By Renee McFadden on 04-11-25
By: Amanda James
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The Keeper of Stories
- By: Sally Page
- Narrated by: Jessica Whittaker
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Everyone has a story to tell. But does Janice have the power to unlock her own? She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard as she cleaned a sink? Before long (as she dusted a sitting room or defrosted a fridge) she noticed people were telling her their stories. Perhaps they had always done so, but now it is different, now the stories are reaching out to her and she gathers them to her.
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I loved it
- By Meaghan Bynum on 02-03-23
By: Sally Page
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Friends of Dorothy
- By: Sandi Toksvig
- Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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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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In the Shadow of the Greenbrier
- By: Emily Matchar
- Narrated by: Gilli Messer
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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Nestled in the hills of West Virginia lies White Sulphur Springs, home to the Greenbrier Resort. Long a playground for presidents and film stars, the Greenbrier has its own gravitational pull. Over ten decades, four generations of the Zelner family must grapple with their place in its shadow . . . and within their own family.
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So Many Stereotypes Reinforced (I Really Wanted to Like This Book)
- By JRC 318 on 03-22-24
By: Emily Matchar
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The Image of You
- By: Adele Parks
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
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Anna and Zoe are identical in appearance, absolutely opposite in personality. They are so close that nothing—and no one—can come between them. When Anna meets the charismatic Nick through online dating, her heart tells her she's found the one. Zoe, however, is concerned. She's seen her sister betrayed before and she's sure Nick is just another man in a long line of liars. As Anna's romance blossoms, the relationship between the sisters becomes strained.
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Plot twists galore
- By kfgshop on 03-29-25
By: Adele Parks
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Ladies of the House
- By: Lauren Edmondson
- Narrated by: Emma Lysy
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No surprise is a good surprise. At least according to thirty-four-year-old Daisy Richardson, a woman of routine, order and careful thought. So when it's revealed in dramatic fashion that her esteemed father had been involved in a public scandal before his untimely death, Daisy's life becomes complicated—and fast. Daisy's plan is to maintain a low profile as she works to keep her family intact amid social exile, public shaming and quickly dwindling savings. But the spotlight always seems to find the Richardsons.
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Modern retelling of Sense and Sensibility
- By Erin S on 03-03-21
By: Lauren Edmondson
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Mercury
- A Novel
- By: Amy Jo Burns
- Narrated by: Maria Liatis
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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It’s 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone’s table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men standing on a rooftop. Their silhouettes blot out the sun.
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Perhaps for a teenager?
- By Bonnie b. on 01-11-24
By: Amy Jo Burns
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The Orphan's Daughter
- By: Sandy Taylor
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Ireland, 1924. For 13-year-old Nora Doyle every day is a fight for survival in Ballybun, the rural Irish village she calls home. Each night, as she feels the cold wind blowing through the cracks of her family’s cramped cottage, Nora longs to escape the poverty surrounding her and find her place in the world. When she meets Edward, from the grand house that looms over her tiny village, she feels an unlikely kinship that is impossible to explain, and as she grows from an impulsive child into a beautiful woman, Nora spends every moment she can with him.
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What a delight!
- By Virginia G. Leyen on 10-23-24
By: Sandy Taylor
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Summer Hours at the Robbers Library
- A Novel
- By: Sue Halpern
- Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg, Dara Rosenberg, Allyson Ryan
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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People are drawn to libraries for all kinds of reasons. Most come for the books themselves, of course; some come to borrow companionship. For head librarian Kit, the public library in Riverton, New Hampshire, offers what she craves most: peace. Here, no one expects Kit to talk about the calamitous events that catapulted her out of what she thought was a settled, suburban life. She can simply submerge herself in her beloved books and try to forget her problems. But that changes when 15-year-old, home-schooled Sunny gets arrested for shoplifting a dictionary.
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Great Story. Well Read.
- By Catherine Singer on 07-12-18
By: Sue Halpern
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Very Very Lucky
- By: Amanda Prowse
- Narrated by: Amanda Prowse
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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With kids to look after, an ailing mother and a neglected husband, life is full for Emma Fountain—too full, she realises, when she wakes up in IKEA after falling asleep in one of the show beds. Only her crazy, funny best friend Roz keeps her sane. But when Roz climbs in through her bathroom window one day to deliver terrible news, Emma’s belief that she can find a way around any obstacle crumbles in the face of a problem she just can’t fix.
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worst audio experience
- By Thea Kirkwood on 05-04-25
By: Amanda Prowse
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Statistically Speaking
- By: Debbie Johnson
- Narrated by: Louise Williams
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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On paper, Gemma's life is just like any other successful, single thirtysomething. Her students adore her. She lives in a cute beachside cottage next door to the world's sweetest neighbor, Margie. And she's definitely caught the eye of Karim, the resident hot PE teacher at her school. But every day of her life, she can't get one thing out of her mind: the baby she gave up for adoption when Gemma was just sixteen years old. This is the year that Baby--the only name Gemma has for her little girl--will turn eighteen. And it might be the year she actually meets her daughter face-to-face.
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I love these characters
- By Player Mom on 12-15-24
By: Debbie Johnson
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-11-24
Who I want to be
The life's lessons shared by the author hit home. She has inspired me to begin a library for my nearly seven-year-old granddaughter. Storey so eloquently puts into words the thoughts and feelings I so inadequately attempt to put at the forefront in this life. Through her words, I am encouraged to look beyond the immediate difficulties and minute details of our lives, to the bigger picture and a more conscious recognition of what is truly important in this life of ours. Thank you "Sally and Ella" for the gentle reminder.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-04-25
Community
I love the way the daughter and community came together to help a friend .Not the typical avoidance of people with the disease.
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- Barbara Armstrong
- 05-02-24
The heartwarming relationship between mother and daughter
Loved the narrators as well, they really held my interest.
I would recommend this book to all my friends
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- Sandra F.
- 05-13-24
Outstanding
This couldn’t hit closer to home regarding mothers and daughters. I think every mother and daughter should read this book. Life is short, and you can’t get back time!
Highly recommend!
I’ve preordered a hard copy for my library!
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- Pbsmithville
- 06-27-24
Really enjoyed this one
I love a book about the love of books and the way we connect with others. This story is also a great reminder to show appreciation for the people in your life and to seek to better understand before you jump to conclusions. Sweet story
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- Kelly Meacham
- 09-01-24
family ties
I loved the mother daughter conection as the book went on. the mother finally let her know the truth. Unfortunately it was a long time coming.
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- Teresa van Niekerk
- 03-22-25
Lovely story
The pieces might be a bit predictable, but the story was a nice reminder of how precious our time together is.
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- Ashley
- 05-14-24
Couldn't Put It Down
The daughter made me mad at first but she grows on you as she grows and learns. I love all the characters in the book but especially Sally the Mom. It is a great book. So glad someone recommended it to me.
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- Joanne R. Pruett
- 09-09-24
WOW! Just WOW!
I just finished reading THE MEMORY LIBRARY, by Kate Storey. This story hits close to home. It is full of life lessons, relationships between mothers and daughters, and a love of books. As I read this book, I thought about my life and the thousands of books I have read and shared during my lifetime. I spent most of my life in libraries and bookstores. I took the "Best book at the best time" seriously and tried to suggest books that I thought the intended reader would enjoy and many benefit from the reading the stories. Most of those of us who love books have favorites. Have you ever stopped and thought about why a certain book is a favorite? This book is definitely worth reading and its impact will last a long time.
PS--If my mom was still here with us, I would give her this book to read so we could talk about the story and our relationships. I would probably be surprised by some of our revelations to each other.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-20-24
Beautiful
Simply beautiful!
Well written!
The message behind the novel is very realistic and important, forgiveness is hard but it takes a massive weight off your heart and opens up so many doors. Definitely worth another listen!
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