Campbell’s performance makes this a compelling listen.
Ever since childhood, sisters Julia, Emily, and Nora have spent one week each May at their grandmother Vera’s beachside home in Coronado, California. As adults living complicated lives in different cities, they keep returning—until one May when Julia, the family’s organizer and emotional anchor, doesn’t arrive or answer her phone. Emily and Nora begin to question what Julia has hidden from them. Told through summer moments and alternating points of view, the audiobook spans more than 40 years of sisterhood. Narrator Cassandra Campbell distinguishes the sisters with clear, mostly consistent voices; gives Vera a hoarser tone; sharpens the voices of annoyed teens with clipped speech; and captures decades of emotion through exhausted sighs, wounded edges, and a neighbor’s warm, patient cadence.
Campbell’s performance makes this a compelling listen.Pub Date: May 12, 2026
Duration: 12 hrs, 30 mins
DD ISBN: 9781668130278
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Review Posted Online: Aug. 9, 2026
In this sequel to Terms of Endearment, Larry McMurtry brings back Aurora Greenway, who is now dealing with her various lovers and friends plus three grown grandchildren with a variety of problems. He presents a tale of growing up and growing old which is bittersweet and funny. Narrator Ivey uses a slight east Texas accent which authenticates the setting of the story. Each character's voice has a slightly different inflection to differentiate it. It all works together well. As you listen, you feel as if you might actually be in Houston sharing the lives of these resilient and refreshing people.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 20 hrs
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
To Fred Fairly, a Cambridge Fellow, truth is everything. What then is the truth about the woman he finds beside him when he awakens? English conventions and mores of 1912 Cambridge are central to this period piece. Callow's wonderful voice and interpretation make accents, personalities and gender come alive, and help make sense of the frequent time and character shifts. His delivery enhances a most clever "choose your own ending."
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 5 hrs
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America/ Chivers
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
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