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The Cuckoo's Cry

By: Caroline Overington
Narrated by: Aimee Horne
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On the eve of the global lockdown, Don Barlow opens the door of his old beachside cottage to find a pretty girl with pink-tipped hair, claiming to have nowhere to go.

He allows her entry, and so begins a mystery set in unprecedented times: with the virus raging outside their home, the girl cannot be asked to leave, but what does he risk by having her stay?

Caroline Overington is a bestselling Australian author and an award-winning journalist. She has written several bestselling audiobooks, including the Looking for Eden, Ghost Child and I Came to Say Goodbye. She has profiled many of the world's most famous women, including Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton, and has twice won the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism. She has also won the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Journalistic Excellence and the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature. Caroline is currently Associate Editor at The Australian and is based in Sydney.

©2020 Caroline Overington (P)2020 Audible Australia Pty Ltd. Crime Fiction Domestic Thrillers Psychological Thriller & Suspense Exciting
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it was an easy story to listen to. the ending was a little under whelming

it was an OK easy to listen to story

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A very good Aussie story. Just as the reader thinks they know what’s going on, there is a small change which changes the whole direction of story until the something else is revealed, changing the direction again. The reader doesn’t really get the full picture until the end. Quite believable too.

The Cuckoo’s Cry

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Really enjoyed this story of unfortunate effects that last a lifetime, causing pain and sadness, but also some joy. Well written and well read.

Good story

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I just loved listening to this especially as it is set in Australia around the beginning of pandemic days.

The arrival of the ‘cuckoo’ could have been good news or bad news. You do wonder. Is she for real? Hints are offered as we are party to her messages with Bailey. Suspicion is ramped up. Whose side to take?

A very exciting finale with an ending blessed by poetic justice…

Refreshingly contemporary, lockdown time story

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It was well read but not much of a story one. It seemed very short with no real middle.

Just Ok

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