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The Music Shop
- Narrated by: Steven Hartley
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
From the author of the worldwide best seller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel about learning how to listen and how to feel and about second chances and choosing to be brave despite the odds. Because in the end, music can save us all....
It's 1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk - as long as it's vinyl, he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his customers the music they need. Then into his life walks Ilse Brauchmann.
Ilse asks Frank to teach her about music. His instinct is to turn and run. And yet he is drawn to this strangely still, mysterious woman, with her pea-green coat and her eyes as black as vinyl. But Ilse is not what she seems. And Frank has old wounds that threaten to reopen and a past he will never leave behind....
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- niXonproXenos
- 03-09-17
Consistently lovely
This author has written three of my favourite books, and the listen has been moving and pleasurable in each case.
In this one, which is brilliantly narrated, I have googled and listened to the music too! with much enjoyment. I think there is a movie here, which I would love to see.
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- Ann Dowd
- 11-04-21
Absolutely loved this.
Captivated from the start. Found it hard to stop listening. One of the best books I have read in ages
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- Gail
- 04-04-22
An Absolute Joy!
Honestly this novel is the golden nugget in Rachel Joyce's jewellery box. Funny, very touching and sooo interesting. It reminded me of music I hadn't listened to for many years and some that I had never heard of, but the passion and love expressed by these wonderful characters caused me to listen to them all with renewed interest. I felt they were all my friends and the ending....... well let me just say keep your tissue box handy.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-09-22
Transported me to my teenage years in record shop
I enjoyed it very much . I will read another book of Rachel Joyce.
Good narrator.
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- felicity r.
- 18-09-21
Unexpected & entertaining
It is tempting to think this is a conventional love story but it is more than that. Imaginative & unexpected plot twists plus interesting protagonists. Might have benefited by further editing to shorten some of the chapters. If I were being pedantic I would say the narrator mispronounces some words and mixes up different accents - but he does convey the warmth and humanity of the author’s view, and is able to convey the different genders, ethnicities and quirks of the main characters. Recommended.
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- J. F. Wrin
- 28-08-18
Fabulous book
Well, I think Rachel Joyce is a genius of human behaviour and observation. I actually listened the Moonlight Sonata half way through the book: I wanted to check out what she’d written.
I am not one to laugh out loud, but I guffawed loudly and even snorted a few times with the accurate and very often clever insights into human action and interaction.
I’ll buy another of her books now and pray it is as well narrated, for this chap ... Steven Hartley, did this exceptionally well.
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- Mrs. Lynn Tulloch
- 16-09-22
Music is life. I had forgotten
I loved this. It was maybe a bit predictable if I am brutally honest. However it was an amazing story that reminded me of how to feel music.
The retro feel and the enthusiasm for all music is contagious
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- arwen
- 27-12-23
Steven Hartley's narration is brilliant
Great story with characters you instantly form a bond with, beautifully narrated by Steven Hartley. I had to listen to a lot of the tracks mentioned so that I could completed immerse myself in the story.
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- Gillian
- 17-01-24
Another good read from Rachel Joyce.
An enjoyable story, well narrated on the whole. Somewhat predictable, but in a way more enjoyable for that. Rachel Joyce has a knack with writing about slightly tired, ordinary people who hide extraordinary gifts.
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-01-24
Lovely story
Bit slow to start but definitely worth perceiveering! Sometimes takes a second chance for good things to happen!
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