The Readers of the Broken Wheel Recommend
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Narrated by:
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Lorelei King
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Fiona Hardingham
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By:
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Katarina Bivald
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The international best seller. Sara is 28 and has never been outside Sweden - except in the (many) books she reads. When her elderly penfriend, Amy, invites her to come and visit her in Broken Wheel, Iowa, Sara decides it’s time.
But when she arrives, there’s a twist waiting for her - Amy has died. Finding herself utterly alone in a dead woman’s house in the middle of nowhere was not the holiday Sara had in mind. But Sara discovers she is not exactly alone. For here in this town so broken it’s almost beyond repair are all the people she’s come to know through Amy’s letters: poor George, fierce Grace, buttoned-up Caroline and Amy’s guarded nephew, Tom.
Sara quickly realises that Broken Wheel is in desperate need of some adventure, a dose of self-help and perhaps a little romance, too. In short this is a town in need of a bookshop.
©2013 Katarina Bivald. English translation copyright © Alice Menzies 2015 (P)2015 Random House AudiobooksWhat listeners say about The Readers of the Broken Wheel Recommend
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- Michelle
- 22-09-15
Chasing
A delight for bookworms & fans of humorous, intelligent chick-lit. With some sly observation about the U.S./Europe thrown in.
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- Mike
- 31-08-15
A book for anyone who loves books or life or both
This is a wonderful romantic comedy about books, small town America, books, friendship, books, love, books and how to live a life worth reading about.
At the centre of the book is Sara, a gentle, perceptive young woman from Sweden who has fallen in love with books but has never really succeeded in engaging with people, except for Amy, her pen-friend in the USA with whom she corresponds about books and life and the meaning of both. Through Amy’s letters Sara learns about the small town of Broken Wheel and the people who live in it and a new urge strikes her: to go out into the world and experience things for herself.
Sarah arrives in the USA for her long-planned visit with Amy, only to find that her friend has died. The people of Broken Wheel insist that Amy would have wanted her to stay and move her in to Amy’s house.
What follows is a delightful story of the world as I would like it to be, where good people help each other to be better people and books expand people’s imaginations and unlock their hearts.
The is a perfectly balanced romantic comedy with lots of funny moments and quite a few moments of “Oh, I hope this doesn’t all go badly wrong” angst. The people in the book are described with compassion and without judgement.
Books are also important characters in this novel. I found myself saying hi to many old friends and being reminded of how much fun it is to meet someone who likes the same books as I do but has a few new ones to recommend. At one point in the story, Sara is sitting surrounded by Amy’s books. She’s supposed to be sorting them but ends up dipping into each of them. Sara quotes from half a dozen books without naming them and I realized I’d read all but one. Like Sara, I’ve often found myself surrounded by books and being so dazzled by them that I can’t move on.
“The Readers Of Broken Wheel Recommend” makes an excellent audiobook.Fiona Hardingham, the main narrator, does a great job in setting the tone of the book. She is particularly good at giving the characters distinctive and appropriate voices. Lorelei King, is the voice of Amy in the letters to that punctuate the novel and change our perception of Sara and the people of Broken Wheel.
This book made my laugh and cry. It made me think about the balance between reading and doing and about how both of them count as living. Most of all, it left me wanting to move to Broken Wheel and take all my books with me.
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- M McKenzie
- 27-07-15
New Romantic
Where does The Readers of the Broken Wheel Recommend rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Midway, not my usual escapism.
What did you like best about this story?
Author's love of books.
What does Lorelei King and Fiona Hardingham bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
An interesting two-hander. Worked well when I became used to it. Do not feel that the narration was so unique though.
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- Miss
- 12-08-16
Dreadful narration and terribly boring.
The narration in this book was terrible - the accents were embarrassingly bad and led to me returning the book. The story was also very. ery dull.
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