Nayomi Munaweera has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.4★ across 197 ratings. The most-rated is Tell Me a Secret.
Tell Me a Secret
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Tell her all your secrets, and she’ll tell you all her lies.... Everything in Lorna’s life runs like clockwork, from her six a.m. run to the strict 60 minute counselling sessions she gives. It’s the only way she can deal with the terrible secret she carries. When a new client arrives for his first appointment, Lorna feels her perfect life unravel in a matter of seconds. It’s Andrew, the man she’s spent the last year desperately trying to forget. It seems he can’t forget her either.... Against her better judgment, she anonymously contacts him on a dating site. Messaging him could mean the end of her marriage and her career, but she needs to know if his motives are genuine. When Andrew is found dead in his home, grief quickly turns to fear when messages from him continue to arrive on Lorna’s phone. Somebody knows her secret and wants to use it to destroy everything she has. Will she risk her family and her sanity to keep her secret? Will she risk her life? If you love twisty psychological thrillers that get under your skin, like The Girl on the Train, I Let You Go, or anything by Louise Jensen, you’ll be utterly blown away by the jaw-dropping lies in Tell Me A Secret.
©2018 Samantha Hayes (P)2018 Bookouture
How to Write Your First Novel: The Stress-Free Guide to Writing Fiction for Beginners
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This is the stress-free guide to writing your first novel like a pro! Learning how to write your first novel can be overwhelming. You have to master outlining, writing, revising, and so much more...and it can be scary if you've never done it before. While it seems daunting, writing your first novel is simple when you have someone experienced to help you through it. In this writer’s guide, prolific writer M.L. Ronn shares an easy step-by-step process of writing compelling fiction that he's perfected after writing over 40 books. Write your first novel with structured advice tailored for beginners: Learn the basic building blocks of every story and how to put them together Develop an effective outline (or learn how to write without one) Discover winning formulas that mega best sellers use to write their novels Navigate your novel’s “murky middle” with seven unorthodox strategies that will get you unstuck in no time Revise your story without fear Writing your first novel is life-changing. Download this writer’s guide, follow the step-by-step instructions, and you'll wake up one morning very soon with a finished manuscript waiting for you.
©2018 M.L. Ronn (P)2018 M.L. Ronn
Island of a Thousand Mirrors
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A stunning literary debut of two young women on opposing sides of the devastating Sri Lankan Civil War.
Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, social hierarchies, their parents’ ambitions, and teenage love shape Yasodhara and her siblings’ lives, and, subtly, the differences between Tamil and Sinhala people; but the peace is shattered by the tragedies of war. Yasodhara's family escapes to Los Angeles. But Yasodhara's life has already become intertwined with a young Tamil girl's.
Saraswathi is living in the active war zone of Sri Lanka and hopes to become a teacher. But her dreams for the future are abruptly stamped out when she is arrested by a group of Sinhala soldiers and pulled into the very heart of the conflict that she has tried so hard to avoid - a conflict that, eventually, will connect her and Yasodhara in unexpected ways.
In the tradition of Michael Ondatje's Anil's Ghost and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Island of a Thousand Mirrors is an emotionally resonant saga of cultural heritage, heartbreaking conflict, and deep family bonds. Narrated in two unforgettably authentic voices and spanning the entirety of the decades-long civil war, it offers an unparalleled portrait of a beautiful land during its most difficult moment by a spellbinding new literary talent who promises tremendous things to come.
©2014 Nayomi Munaweera (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Det der er imellem os
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Stærk roman fra den srilankanske forfatter Nayomi Munaweera om en kvinde, der har begået den måske mest utilgivelige forbrydelse af alle. Væggene i min celle er malet kridhvide. De må mene, at farven har en beroligende effekt. Hvor jeg kommer fra, symboliserer den fravær, død og ensomhed.
Folk skriver til mig. Mest mødre; som udspyr deres gift. Det er næppe overraskende. Jeg har gjort det utænkelige. Trukket sløret til side og krydset grænsen til et usynligt land. De hader mig, fordi jeg er det værste, man kan forestille sig. Jeg er den dårlige mor.
Således starter Nayomi Munaweeras hjerteskærende nye roman, hvor en navnløs kvinde fortæller os sin historie fra sin amerikanske fængselscelle for at få - om ikke tilgivelse for det utilgivelige - så forståelse. For at gøre dette må hun starte ved begyndelsen, nemlig hendes egen barndom i en kærlig familie på det frodige og smukke Sri Lanka. Men i det paradis bor også en slange, hun tager med sig langt ind i voksenlivet.
©2017 Gyldendal (P)2017 Gyldendal