House on Olive Street

By: Robyn Carr

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins

Publisher's summary

New York Times best-selling author Robyn Carr is beloved for her charming, romantic fiction. In this touching work, four women—all writers—come together after a painful loss. Recently deceased Gabby Marshall leaves behind a letter asking her friends to complete her unfinished manuscript. Taking vacations from their own lives, the ladies settle at Gabby’s home and get to work.

©1999 Robyn Carr (P)2010 Recorded Books, LLC

Critic reviews

“Carr offers a well-written, warm-hearted story and a genuinely fun read.” ( Publishers Weekly)

Wonderful and very different.

This isn’t a romance novel. It is a story of five truly human in every sense of the word, women who struggle and overcome. It is about change and abuse and how we perceive ourselves and most of all how our life as children affect us.
I highly recommend this book.

A story of female friendship.

I've listened to this book several times now. I love it all. The narration, the characters and the wonderful spectacle of a group of broken women supporting, growing and healing themselves and each other with love. It shows the real beauty that can result if women would just hold each other up.

Thouroughly Enjoyed this Book!

This was one of my favorite books in a very long time. The story and the writing were excellent. The performances were as well. I did not want it to end!

Great stor horrible "over acting"

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

It took me several attempts and to be left with only this to read before I actually got past the horrible cartoony voices to enjoy the writing and story.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The voices were so exaggerated and cartoony it was so distracting worse were the child, the mother that came to camp out and the male voices. SOOOOO annoying!

Any additional comments?

The story was fantastic and I was glad I followed through but it would be better in Kindle form.

Friendship helping to overcome

I found it hard to stop listening due to the humanness of the main characters. Sometimes my eyes grew misty other times I laughed out loud.

Excellent Story

I have lost count of the number of times I have finished a Robyn Carr book and thought, that was absolutely wonderful!

Great story/great writing

It started a little slow but as the characters developed I could not stop listening! Heartwarming, funny at times and heartbreaking and frustrating at others, like a piece of real life!
I loved the narration, it just took me a little while to get used to her voice. All and all it was a great book!
I’ve read many of author’s other books before, and they were just a fun read to me! However after this one I found a whole lot of new respect for her as a capable writer with amazing insight into human psyche!

Worth the read. Terrible narration.

The book was quite lovely. It was inspirational and reflective. Not a must read, but a "worth the read." However, the narration was awful. If she would have just stuck to one or two characters that would have been great, but the way she tried to do so many different characters was just too much. She failed miserably. Again, the book is a good "chick book" though. :-) I would recommend it. Just don't expect much from the narrator.

enjoyed the read

This book reminded me of a slow Sunday afternoon spent with seniors sharing memories of days long past and lives well lived. A perfect day for me, but may be a bit slow for some

Very enjoyable, interesting and inspiring

I enjoyed hearing the diverse backgrounds and accompanying problems of the women in this novel. It's always good to learn that we all have problems even if they don't show to most people who see us everyday. It was interesting to learn how they worked through and continued to work through their particular problems. It was also interesting to delve into the background of one particular character that while intelligent and talented, was willing to withstand on-going abuse- always perplexing behavior to people on the outside. Other backgrounds of these women also interested me, such as alcohol and abuse and poverty and how they felt, how it affected their lives and how they got through it. Many more women interesting characters and issues- too many to include here! Well written and interesting enough to keep me coming back until I finished. Thanks- to the author and Audible!