Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Belford Stories

By: Armand Rosamilia
Narrated by: John Carter Aimone
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £14.99

Buy Now for £14.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

October 1987... A small fishing village on the New Jersey coast is ready for the high school football game and an oncoming snowstorm Willie Davidson... his mother left town when her husband died, leaving her son to fend for himself with winter approaching... Frankie and Gary Paul... two cousins sharing a public works truck and looking for trouble... April Schwartz... a lost teenage girl trying to prove how adult she is... Billy Hunter... the police officer with a chip on his shoulder... George Smith... an aspiring musician who just wants to play music and hang with his friends... Jimmy Petrucci... a family man with a wandering eye that could get him in hot water... Garrett Simms... the star quarterback for the North team, trying to keep his focus on the game... These and more Belford residents are waiting for you! Contemporary fiction novel. If you enjoyed Flagler Beach Fiction Series from the author you'll enjoy this book!

©2017 Armand Rosamilia (P)2018 Armand Rosamilia
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

Kokomo's Café? Complete cover art
Dirty Deeds cover art
Forever Mason cover art
Exclusively Yours cover art
The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter cover art
Hallowed Murder cover art
Where the Hurt Is cover art
Camino Beach cover art
The Eskimo Slugger cover art
This Bright River cover art
Almost Perfect cover art
Summer at Willow Lake cover art
His Best Man cover art
Walking Alone cover art
Strike cover art
How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets cover art

What listeners say about Belford Stories

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    2
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Excellent

A bit of a change of pace for me with some small town every day fiction featuring a diverse cast of characters and the little dramas and worries that affect normal people...... family dynamics, marriage, kids, teenagers, abandonment, relationships, friendships, rivalries, mistakes, employment, poor choices, popularity, insecurity, money worries, hopes, dreams, resentments, grudges, disappointments and the reliving of old glories.

I liked the small vignettes which the author served up, as the focus changes from character to character from chapter to chapter, with some overlap and intersections. I could visualise a similar narrative with the little dramas served up for my own English town thirty years ago, and I'm guessing it wouldn't be that different from Rosamilia's New Jersey Belford. Maybe with a town carnival replacing a big football game.

No real mystery or mayhem about the events which feature, but I really liked the author's ability to make the everyday and mundane worthy of my attention and interest. That said we do venture into adulterous territory with blackmail and some minor drug use. Some of our stories don't have a finite outcome as such. A bit like our own lives. One problem gets solved or deferred and is soon replaced by another issue which causes worry and needs attention. There's some joy in the book, not every tale is a Debbie Downer. Life has it's fair share of rewarding moments and surprises.

There's a real smoothness to the writing that I perhaps hadn't expected to encounter. It's a book I enjoyed a little bit more than I anticipated.

Armand Rosamilia has written three other sets of Belford Stories, each set a few years apart and hopefully carrying on and picking up with the same set of characters that I've just met. I'm looking forward to Belford Stories 2 sometime soon.

4 from 5

Read - (listened to) December, 2020
Published - 2016
Page count - 224 (5 hrs 25 mins)
Source - Audible purchase
Format - Audible

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!