After the Fall

A Novel

By: Kylie Ladd

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik, John Lee

Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

"I had been married three years when I fell in love," begins Kate, a firecracker of a woman who thought she'd found the yin to her yang in Cary, her sensible and adoring husband. For their friend Luke - a charismatic copywriter who loves women and attention in equal measure, and preferably together - life has been more than sweet beside Cressida, the dutiful pediatric oncologist who stole his heart. But when a whimsical flirtation between Kate and Luke turns into something far more dangerous, the foursome will be irrevocably intertwined by more than just their shared history.

After the Fall follows the origin and fallout of the most passionate of affairs through the eyes of all four characters, unveiling the misunderstandings and unspoken needs that lie beneath our search for love and connection. The narrative moves effortlessly between past and present, painting a nostalgic picture of the two marriages at their most idealistic - the exact moment when like turned to love - and at their most volatile. Thanks to the boundless compassion with which Ladd draws her characters, one can't help but root for them as they wrestle between newfound desire and remembrances of time past, all the while spinning toward an inevitable conclusion.

Steeped in psychological insight and raw emotion, After the Fall is an unsettling novel of the many ways we love and hurt each other.

©2010 Kylie Ladd (P)2010 Tantor

Terrible Narration

Where on earth did the male and female narrators learn to speak their terrible Australian accents?
I'm halfway through the story, which is engaging enough but those voices! Caroline Lee would have made this book more bearable to listen to.

Read it to be bored!

This is the most boring book I have ever read. It reads like an AA drunk-a-log or perhaps the continuing epic of someone in sex addicts anonymous. I could barely make it through the first part, started on part 2, but had to stop the dribble. It lacks character development to entice the reader to become attached to the character. The timing is also off. Years go by and there is only a small sentence to indicate the shift in time. This in itself is good, because I can only imagine listening through more boring dialogue. I will try to go back and read the last chapter. Then again, I may just forget about it as this book deserves.