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Us
- By: David Nicholls
- Narrated by: Justin Salinger
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,894
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Performance1,713
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Story1,708
Douglas Petersen’s family is on the brink of dissolution. His marriage of twenty-one years to Connie is almost over. When autumn comes around, their son Albie will leave for college. Connie has decided to leave soon after. But before everything falls apart, there's still the summer holidays to get through - a Grand Tour of Europe's major cities - and over the course of the journey, Douglas devises a plan to win back the love of his wife and repair his troubled relationship with his son.
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Great Story but….
- By lou58 on 13-10-14
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Us
- Narrated by: Justin Salinger
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 30-09-14
- Language: English
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
- By: Claire North
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,694
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Performance3,423
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Story3,425
Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. 'I nearly missed you, Doctor August,' she says.
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A good one!
- By Robyn on 27-06-16
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
- Narrated by: Peter Kenny
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-04-14
- Language: English
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Instructions for a Heatwave
- By: Maggie O'Farrell
- Narrated by: Dearbhla Molloy
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall525
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Performance471
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Story475
The stunning new novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976.
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Great book, brilliant performance
- By ronx59 on 23-08-13
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Instructions for a Heatwave
- Narrated by: Dearbhla Molloy
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 28-02-13
- Language: English
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The Liar
- By: Stephen Fry
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall678
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Performance542
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Story539
Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comic and achingly romantic. Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth.
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Fantastic Listen
- By MrY on 13-09-12
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The Liar
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 22-09-10
- Language: English
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No Humans Involved
- By: Kelley Armstrong
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance36
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Story37
No Humans Involved stars necromancer Jaime Vegas. She’s on a television shoot in Brentwood, Los Angeles when weird things start to happen. Invisible hands brush her arms, she sees movements out of the corner of her eye, and unintelligible fragments of words are whispered in her ear. Jaime’s used to seeing the dead and hearing them clearly. But now, for the first time in her life, she knows what humans mean when they say they’re being haunted.
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Always a favorite!
- By Jj on 06-06-21
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No Humans Involved
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Series: Otherworld, Book 7
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 07-07-11
- Language: English
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Once More with Feeling
- A Novel
- By: Ceridwen Dovey
- Narrated by: Jason Chong
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall98
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Performance94
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Story94
Arthur MacDonald, 85, is having an end-of-life crisis. His beloved, dying wife of over 60 years no longer knows who he is. His older brother still has all his hair and a wife almost half his age. The man his middle-aged daughter is dating has a ponytail. His teenaged grandson wants to cook desserts for a living. And his daughter wants him to move into Silvermine retirement home. Then Arthur meets the gorgeous, radical, 80-something-year-old Robbie and learns that nobody is ever too old to fall in love all over again.
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Precious and beautiful
- By Sigrin on 26-05-23
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Once More with Feeling
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jason Chong
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 25-05-20
- Language: English
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Is That You, Beth Cherry?
- the warm and witty new novel from the author of Irresponsible Adult
- By: Lucy Dillon
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance10
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Story10
Beth's life, like the unfinished manuscript on her laptop, is stuck. Since her devastating breakup with Fraser she's retreated into a lonely working-from-home world of sweatpants, disordered timekeeping and comfort eating. The one luminous constant in her life is her love for her rescue dog...
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Really enjoyable
- By Janey H on 20-11-25
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Is That You, Beth Cherry?
- the warm and witty new novel from the author of Irresponsible Adult
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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Human Croquet
- By: Kate Atkinson
- Narrated by: Susan Jameson
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall245
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Performance222
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Story224
Once it had been the great forest of Lythe--a vast and impenetrable thicket of green. And here, in the beginning, lived the Fairfaxes, grandly, at Fairfax Manor, visited once by the great Gloriana herself. But over the centuries, the forest had been destroyed, replaced by Streets of Trees. The Fairfaxes have dwindled, too; now they live in Arden, at the end of Hawthorne Close, and are hardly a family at all.
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Brilliant
- By DartmoorDiva on 30-07-15
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Human Croquet
- Narrated by: Susan Jameson
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 09-02-15
- Language: English
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One Day
- By: David Nicholls
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,801
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Performance1,831
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Story1,835
He is Dexter Mayhew, tall, dark and (she can't deny it) handsome. She is Emma Morley, bottled red hair, wilfully badly dressed, all principles and no action. Could this be the dawn of the rest of their lives? Or are Dex and Em living proof that - despite an unlikely beginning - men and women really can be just good friends?
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You'll laugh, you'll cry.
- By Charles on 09-12-09
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One Day
- Narrated by: Anna Bentinck
- Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 07-12-09
- Language: English
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Summer's Lease
- By: John Mortimer
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall111
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Performance91
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Story93
It’s high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway, but soon she becomes fascinated by the lives of the absent owners and things start to go horribly wrong.
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Brilliant!
- By Mrs S P Wright on 05-07-21
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Summer's Lease
- Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 11-03-10
- Language: English
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Dangerous Davies
- By: Leslie Thomas
- Narrated by: Alexander John
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall72
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Performance55
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Story57
As plain-clothes men go, Dangerous Davies looks like a non-starter. The small fry of petty larceny and minor disturbances in the backwaters of north-west London are his daily round. His philosophising Welsh drinking companion Mod, his outsized and unruly dog Kitty, his quarrels with his landlady Mrs Fulljames - none of these bodes well for the efficient solving of crimes and the outwitting of villainy. But Davies is encouraged by his beautiful friend, Jemma, and every so often he stumbles upon something really big.
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Very funny
- By Mrs. T. L. Brown on 31-05-13
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Dangerous Davies
- Narrated by: Alexander John
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 22-06-10
- Language: English
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The Bluest Eye
- A Novel
- By: Toni Morrison, Jacqueline Woodson - introduction
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison, Karen Murray
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. With a new introduction by...
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The Bluest Eye
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison, Karen Murray
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 19-07-11
- Language: English
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This Heart of Mine
- By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall50
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Performance31
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Story31
New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips magic is vibrantly alive, and it's on display in This Heart of Mine, the fifth book in her wildly popular Chicago Stars series! Molly Somerville loves her career as the creator of the Daphne the Bunny children's book series, but the rest...
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A really enjoyable read
- By Mrs J Geldard on 03-06-09
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This Heart of Mine
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Series: Chicago Stars, Book 5
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 27-02-07
- Language: English
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Paths of Glory
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Roger Allam
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall722
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Performance481
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Story483
Inspired by the true story of mountaineer George Mallory, Paths of Glory bring to life one of history's enduringly enigmatic figures in a stunning novel from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. 'Archer at the peak of his imaginative powers' – The Times Some people have dreams that are so...
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fantastic stuff
- By Brand on 13-03-09
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Paths of Glory
- Narrated by: Roger Allam
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 06-03-09
- Language: English
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Gods Behaving Badly
- By: Marie Phillips
- Narrated by: Glen McCready
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance41
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Story41
Being immortal isn't all it's cracked up to be. Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century: Nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn't respect you, and you're stuck in a dilapidated hovel in North London with too many siblings and not enough hot water.
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A Great Voice does not a good audiobook make
- By Charles on 14-09-09
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Gods Behaving Badly
- Narrated by: Glen McCready
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-05-08
- Language: English
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The Shawshank Redemption
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall760
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Performance660
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Story658
A mesmerising tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is one of Stephen King's most beloved and iconic stories and it helped make Castle Rock a place listeners would return to over and over again. Suspenseful, mysterious and heart-wrenching, this iconic King novella, populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, is about a fiercely compelling convict named Andy Dufresne who is seeking his ultimate revenge.
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personal opinion
- By Zain Iqbal on 01-12-15
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The Shawshank Redemption
- Narrated by: Frank Muller
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 21-05-10
- Language: English
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The Misbegotten
- A haunting mystery of family secrets, passion and lies
- By: Katherine Webb
- Narrated by: Jacqueline King
- Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall70
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Performance64
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Story66
Bath, 1821. Rachel Crofton escapes her unhappy employment as a governess by marrying a self-made businessman. But her new life soon takes an unexpected turn. Reclusive Jonathan Alleyn is a man tormented by the disappearance of his childhood sweetheart, Alice. Starling, foundling child and now...
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Loved it.
- By Anonymous on 16-03-21
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The Misbegotten
- A haunting mystery of family secrets, passion and lies
- Narrated by: Jacqueline King
- Length: 17 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 27-03-14
- Language: English
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Wicked!
- Rutshire Chronicles, Book 8
- By: Jilly Cooper
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall221
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Performance201
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Story202
At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild, but increasingly academic, independent, crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the facilities of his school with Larkminster Comprehensive - known locally, as 'Larks'. His reasons for doing so are purely financial, but he is encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the dynamic new head of Larks, who has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure.
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I am no prude but this is all about under age sex
- By Bella H on 22-11-19
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Wicked!
- Rutshire Chronicles, Book 8
- Narrated by: Sherry Baines
- Series: Rutshire Chronicles, Book 8
- Length: 36 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 20-09-18
- Language: English
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Silk - The Clerks’ Room: Series 1 and 2
- A BBC Radio 4 Drama Based on the BBC TV Series
- By: Mick Collins
- Narrated by: Neil Stuke, John MacMillan, Amy Wren, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance4
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Story4
Inspired by Peter Moffat's popular BBC One show, Silk, this compelling courtroom drama returns to Shoe Lane Chambers, but from a different perspective. Rather than focussing on the lawyers, it centres on the people who can make or break their careers—their clerks.
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Excellent
- By Emily Aherne on 16-07-23
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Silk - The Clerks’ Room: Series 1 and 2
- A BBC Radio 4 Drama Based on the BBC TV Series
- Narrated by: Neil Stuke, John MacMillan, Amy Wren, Theo Barklem-Biggs, full cast
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 16-06-22
- Language: English
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Fugly
- By: Jenny Rachel Weiner
- Narrated by: Tavi Gevinson, Ethan Jones, Heléne Yorke, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
31-year-old Lee has her dream job at tech startup Everfore—but being the youngest-looking person in the office means she's always fighting to be taken seriously among the bros on her team who treat her more like a kid sister than a colleague. When her boss challenges the team to develop the next viral app for Gen Z, Lee sees her chance to finally shine—even if it means going undercover as a high school student in the process.
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A true treat for all millennials
- By rosie hopegood on 27-03-26
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Fugly
- Narrated by: Tavi Gevinson, Ethan Jones, Heléne Yorke, Timothy Simons, Josh Pais, Oona Yaffe, Noah Pacht, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer, Savannah Ruiz, Sofie Zamchick
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 26-03-26
- Language: English
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