No Place Like Home
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Christopher Quyen
About this listen
Shortly after 9.30 in the morning, a young man walks into Surf City, Bondi’s newest shopping complex. He’s wearing a dark grey hoodie - and a bomb around his neck.
Just a few minutes later, he is locked in a shop on the upper floor. And trapped with him are four innocent bystanders.
For police chaplain Paul Doherty, called to the scene by Senior Sergeant Boehm, it’s a story that will end as tragically as it began. For this is clearly no ordinary siege. The boy, known as Ali Khan, seems as frightened as his hostages and has yet to utter a single word.
The seconds tick by for the five in the shop: Mitchell, the talented schoolboy; Mouse, the shop assistant; Kimmi, the nail-bar technician; and Roger Callaghan, the real estate agent whose reason for being in Bondi that day is far from innocent.
And, of course, there’s Ali Khan. Is he the embodiment of evil, as the villagers in his Tanzanian birthplace believe? Or just an innocent boy, betrayed at every turn, who just wants a place to call home?
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- J Lara
- 09-02-22
Another great Caroline Overington novel
Thought provoking & sad story, the narrator slightly irritating at times but worth listening to.
Would recommend.
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- TRACEY W.
- 18-03-22
Entertaining read
I've binged Caroline Overingtons books over the last couple of weeks & find them entertaining, interesting, sometimes feels a bit like people watching, I look forward to the next one!
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- Rachael
- 09-05-22
Enjoyable and an easy listen.
This wasn’t my favourite book I’ve listened to so far by this author but I still enjoyed it. The narrator’s voice got a bit of getting used to and he pronounces his ‘th’ as ‘f’ but I got over that after a while! A good story. Enjoyed it. Onto the next Caroline Overington book.
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- Mrs B Moore
- 02-05-23
Verbal tick
I do enjoy CO’s books but couldn’t carry on listening to this one. The narrator pronounces th as v - ie together as togever. After a while each th said a a v stopped me listening.
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- Mr Norman C Mayhew
- 18-09-23
Good but sad story
The story was very interesting, touching on lots of emotive subjects.
But, and I’m sorry narrator - the narration was BAD.
If he’d have just read it in a normal voice it would have been ok; but the whiny, droning voices and the very bad accents really made listening cringey and nearly unbearable.
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- Emily Eason
- 05-10-23
Inspirational
The narrator has received a lot of criticism for his accents in this audiobook, but really I think we should view this as inspirational: it demonstrates that having zero skill or ability to undertake a particular task is no barrier to being hired and paid to do so. Want to be a doctor but have no medical degree? Want to be a pilot but have no idea how to fly? No problem! Just approach whoever hired this narrator for this audiobook…
Honestly, I feel a bit bad for him. He sounds like he’s trying hard, and his narration is fairly good in the parts that require a male, Australian voice….but whoever signed off this recording has some explaining to do. It’s actually sort of painful to listen to at this stage. I’m not sure he understands where Scotland is….somewhere between Belgium and Mars is the effect achieved in this reading.
It’s hard to comment on the story….it must be fairly good or I would have stopped listening already.
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- EmmaRay
- 31-03-22
Dodgy voices great story
Great story. Heart ache in a lot of places but wasn’t quite set on some of the voices. That’s however is a personal thing and didn’t detract from story. (The Scottish accent was comical and Marjory Devlin whined incessantly)
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- Debbie
- 17-02-22
Very good
I felt really sorry for Ali Khan I would have liked more of his background and what drove him into making bombs. I think he could have been helped more he obviously went under the radar which happens all the time.
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- Rachel C.
- 21-01-22
Recommended
This author is an extraordinary story teller. The characterisation is reliably excellent and the pace slow enough to get to know the characters but promising enough to keep you hooked.
The narrator is excellent also and I will forgive the Scottish accent which was a very small part!
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- KDJ
- 04-08-22
Not as good as some of her other books
A good story, but a bit long winded. I’m also not entirely sure about the hostage situation - it seems to me that he was making no demands, no threats and he was in actual fact being held against his will along with the others…? Maybe I missed something?
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