Alex Tregear has narrated 31 audiobooks on Listento.it by 25 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.6★ across 676 ratings. The most-rated is Me Before You.
My Silent Daughter
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Your daughter will not speak.... But can she teach you how to live? Ever since Ruby was tiny, she has been unique. Her smiles are magically rare, and she likes things done in a very particular way - her blocks are always color-coded, and her toy animals stand in regimented lines. She’s also the daughter of Sara’s dreams - even on days when being a mother to a three-year-old is exhausting. Not everyone understands Ruby like Sara does though. Not Sara’s husband Mike, and certainly not her disapproving mother-in-law, Barbara. So when circumstances force their family to move in with Barbara, Sara knows it’s going to make motherhood even harder. Then Ruby’s preschool suggest that her behavior and refusal to speak might be the first signs of a bigger issue, in the same week that Mike walks out on them. And Sara’s world is blown apart. Facing life as a single parent and trying to work out Ruby’s needs is more than Sara can face alone. There’s only one person she can turn to for help - Barbara. But Barbara knows something Sara doesn’t. She knows what can go wrong if you don’t look after your children right.... And she’s determined not to let Sara make the same mistakes she did. Perfect for fans of Diane Chamberlain, Jodi Picoult, and Jojo Moyes.
©2019 Emma Robinson (P)2019 Bookouture
The Hangman's Secret
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Crime-scene photographers Sarah, Hugh, and Mick are summoned to the goriest crime scene they've ever encountered. A pub owner named Harry Warbrick has been found hanged. His murder becomes a sensation because he was England's top hangman. Sir Gerald, owner of the Daily World, announces that they‚ meaning Sarah and her friends‚ will investigate and solve Warbrick's murder before the police do. She and her friends discover a connection between Warbrick's murder and the most notorious criminal he ever executed: Amelia Carlisle. Something happened at Amelia's execution. The Official Secrets Act forbids the seven witnesses present to divulge any information about it. But Harry had a bad habit of leaking tips to the press. What is the secret, and who hanged the hangman?
©2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC (P)2019 Dreamscape Media, LLC
This Beautiful Life
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The addictive and emotive new novel from Katie Marsh, author of My Everything and A Life Without You. Perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes, Lisa Jewell and Lucy Dillon. 'I lived over half my life before I met you both, and I hope with all my heart to live many years more. You two are the reason why. Always, always the reason why.' Abi Cooper is living her happy ending. She's in remission and is ready to make the most of her second chance. But during Abi's illness, her family has fallen apart. Her husband, John, has made decisions that are about to come back to haunt him while her teenage son, Seb, is battling with a secret of his own. Set to the songs on Abi's survival playlist, This Beautiful Life is the moving and uplifting story of what happens as Abi tries to put her family back together - and of why life and love are worth fighting for.
©2017 Katie Marsh (P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Ten Lessons in Love
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Ten short BBC Radio 4 plays from an eclectic mix of writers, including Josie Long, Nick Warburton and Tim Key, exploring one of the most important human emotions. Ten Lessons in Love was originally broadcast as the ‘Afternoon Play’ on 25 April 2011. This accumulation of mini-plays encompasses romance, heartbreak and some adult themes; each play offering a very different perspective on love. David uses 'the machine' to revisit his old memories - he wants to pinpoint the exact moment he fell in love. But when it malfunctions, it catapults us into the stories of a variety of people, all of whom are attempting to make sense of love.... The Ten Lessons in Love of which this collection is comprised are: 'You Never Know When You're Going to Fall in Love’, ‘More Often than Not, Your Dream Date Will be a Nightmare’, ‘Beware of Skeletons in the Closet’, ‘Remain Interested; Don't Yawn at Least’, ‘When Your Heart Freezes it's Time to Leave the Building’, ‘Love is Fickle’, ‘Being Alone Doesn't Have to Mean Being Lonely’, ‘Love's Worth Fighting For’, ‘Love Can't be Pinned Down’ and ‘Ignore All Previous Lessons’. Starring Sean Baker as David, the cast also includes Nyasha Hatendi and Alex Tregear.
©2011 AudioGO Ltd (P)2011 AudioGO Ltd
Christmas for the District Nurses
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A dramatic and heartwarming new novel set in the Blitz, from the best-selling author Annie Groves. The East End of London has been devastated by the Blitz, and the people are struggling to come to terms with their ravaged city. Rationing bites ever deeper, and and everything that makes life better is in short supply. For the district nurses, the challenges are tougher than ever. Gladys loves her work in the Civil Nursing Reserve, but just when she needs to rely on her sister at home to help out with the chores, she turns into a handful of trouble. Edith is learning to cope with her boyfriend's injuries after Dunkirk, but will she have to choose between her love for him and her career? With no end in sight, the war reaches its darkest moment. Can the nurses - and the families and patients that rely on them - find the strength to carry on?
©2019 Annie Groves (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Undone: The Complete Series 1-3
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Sci-fi comedy about the bizarre city of Undone - a weird parallel version of London. Edna Turner has moved to London to start a new job at entertainment magazine Get Out! When she arrives, she meets the strange Tankerton Slopes, who claims to come from a parallel version of London known as 'Undone'. Undone is 'where the weirdness comes from': where you can find pet tricks shows, medication designed to make you paranoid and the Undone delicacy ‘troubled eggs’. Weird things flow into London, and mundane things flow into Undone, making them the peculiar places they are. Tankerton offers Edna the task of patrolling the gaps between the cities: finding anyone from Undone who is in London and bringing them back. Because if an ‘Undoner’ stays in London for too long, things become very weird indeed.... With a cast including Alex Tregear, Ben Moor, Kevin Eldon, Tim Key, Emma Kennedy and Al Murray, this sci-fi comedy will take you to a dimension just beyond normal logic. Cast: Edna Turner...Sarah Solemani/Alex Tregear Tankerton Slopes...Ben Moor Carlo Jones/Billy O’Malley...Duncan Wisbey The Prince...Kevin Eldon Ida...Sophie Duval Grant...Tim Key Kate...Montserrat Lombard/Daisy Haggard Rosie Turner...Emma Kennedy Golfer Mackenzie...Al Murray Produced by Colin Anderson and Lyndsay Fenner
©2018 BBC Worldwide Ltd (P)2018 BBC Worldwide Ltd
The Rest of Me
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Perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes and Amanda Prowse. Can one act of love break a family apart? Alex believes that she can overcome anything. So when her partner, Sam, needs her help in the most unexpected of ways, she doesn't hesitate to offer it to him - even when it means making a huge sacrifice of her own. But what neither of them can foresee is that this one act of love will reverse their roles within the family...leaving Alex reeling and isolated from Sam and their two children. How far will you go to save someone you love? And as the threads which hold her life - and the family she adores - together start to unravel, can Alex figure out the ups and downs of her new reality before everything falls apart? The Rest of Me is a moving, emotional novel about a family navigating the aftermath of a shattering event. It will make you laugh and cry and remind you of the importance of family and love.
©2018 Katie Marsh (P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton
My Everything
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On the day Hannah is finally going to tell her husband she's leaving him, he has a stroke...and life changes in an instant. Tom's only 32. Now he can't walk or cut up his own food, let alone use his phone or take her in his arms. And Hannah's trapped. She knows she has to care for her husband, the very same man she was ready to walk away from. But with the time and fresh perspective he's been given, Tom reevaluates his life and becomes determined to save his marriage. Can he once again become the man his wife fell in love with, or has he left it too late? My Everything is an engrossing debut novel. It will make you cry, laugh and stop to think about what's really important in life.
©2015 Katie Marsh (P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
The Woman in the Veil
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London, June 1890. Sarah Bain and her friends Lord Hugh Staunton and Mick O'Reilly are crime-scene photographers for the Daily World newspaper. After solving a sensational murder, they're under pressure to deliver another big story. On a foggy summer night, they're called to the bank of the River Thames. The murder victim is an unidentified woman whose face has been slashed. But as Sarah takes photographs, she discovers that the woman is still alive. The case of Sleeping Beauty becomes a public sensation, and three parties quickly come forward to identify her: a rich, sinister artist who claims she's his wife; a mother and her two daughters who co-own a nursing home and claim she's their stepdaughter/sister; and a precocious little girl who claims Sleeping Beauty is her mother. Which party is Sleeping Beauty's rightful kin? Is someone among them her would-be killer? Then Sleeping Beauty awakens - with a severe case of amnesia. She's forgotten her name and everything else about herself. But she recognizes one of the people who've claimed her. Sarah is delighted to reunite a family and send Sleeping Beauty home - until one of the claimants is murdered. Suddenly, Sarah, her motley crew of friends, and her fiancé Detective Sergeant Barrett are on the wrong side of the law. Now they must identify the killer before they find themselves headed for the gallows.
©2020 Laura Joh Rowland (P)2020 Dreamscape Media, LLC
A Life Without You
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Perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes, Lisa Jewell and Jodi Picoult. Can you ever outrun the past? It's Zoe's wedding day. She's about to marry Jamie, the love of her life. Then a phone call comes out of the blue, with the news that her mum, Gina, has been arrested. Zoe must make an impossible decision: should she leave her own wedding to help? Zoe hasn't seen Gina for years, blaming her for the secret that she's been running from ever since she was 16. Now Gina is back in her life, but she's very different to the mum Zoe remembers. Slowly but surely Gina is losing her memory. As she struggles to cope with Gina's illness, can Zoe face up to the terrible events of years ago and find her way back to the people she loves? A Life Without You is a stirring and poignant novel about the power of the past - and the possibilities of the future.
©2016 Katie Marsh (P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Amy's Diary
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On 3 September, 1939, Amy Browning decided to start a diary. It was a momentous day for so many reasons: It was Amy's 18th birthday, her sister had just given birth, and on the radio it was announced that Great Britain was now at war. As the months went by, things began to change. The bombing started, and Amy's fears grew for her boyfriend, Ian, in the RAF....
©2012 Maureen Lee (P)2012 W F Howes Ltd