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    Songbird
    Audiobook (abridged)3 hours

    Songbird

    Written by Josephine Cox

    Narrated by Carole Boyd

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A mesmerizing new bestseller from Josephine Cox –the country’s favourite storyteller.

    In 1996, in the riverside town of Bedford, four students are living next door a reclusive old woman. She never opens the door to anyone and rarely ventures out in the daytime. But she watches them from behind the curtains.

    One evening, while the students are listening to orchestral music, the haunting voice of a woman can be heard singing. When the music stops, the voice continues to enthrall them. One of the students, Betty, is sure it is coming from their neighbour, although the others think it impossible.They have no way of knowing that the woman next door holds a dark and dangerous secret, one that she has carried with her for over twenty years…

    We are transported back to 1978, where the woman is young and vibrant, but as she grows older, experiencing both great love and terrible pain, she finds herself in isolation, having deserted everything she cares for.

    Yet just when she thinks her life is truly over, the kindness of one young girl brings her back from the brink of total devastation. But there is danger everywhere. Coming back from the dark will not be easy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 4, 2008
    ISBN9780007276509
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    Songbird
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    Josephine Cox

    Josephine Cox was born in Blackburn, one of ten children. Her strong, gritty stories are taken from the tapestry of life. Josephine says, ‘I could never imagine a single day without writing. It’s been that way since as far back as I can remember.’

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    • 3/5
      Sadness upon sadness.This is the third of Josephine Cox's novels (also: Lovers and Liars and Born Bad) that I have listened to in abridged audiobook format, and the third one that I have given just three stars to. I find them rather depressing and the target is always a woman who is being treated badly by a man. I wasn't taken with the narrator either, Carol Bond's voice felt patronising and enhanced how cheesy I was finding the story.Maddy Delaney is the Songbird of the title. She sings in a London nightclub run by the sleazy crook, Steve Drayton. She has fallen for him in a big way, but it seems he is just using her until he's ready to move on to his next victim. Things go seriously wrong and she ends up on the run.There were some lovely people who help her along the way, but she never settles long and the past has a way of catching up with her.This is a sad story with sadness piling upon sadness, even the ending was only partly satisfying.I always wonder what I have missed when I listen to abridged audiobooks, were the best bits missing?I'm aware that Josephine Cox is a popular author, so this is only my own opinion of the book, but I think I will pass my JC books on and make space in my bookshelves for other authors.