Dolores Claiborne

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Frances Sternhagen

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the “powerful” (Time) #1 New York Times bestselling classic thriller about a housekeeper with a long-hidden secret from her past—one that tests her own will to survive.

When Vera Donovan, one of the wealthiest and most ill-natured residents of Maine’s Little Tall Island, dies suddenly in her home, suspicion is immediately cast on her housekeeper and caretaker, Dolores Claiborne. Dolores herself is no stranger to such mistrust, thanks to the local chatter and mysterious circumstances surrounding her abusive husband’s death twenty-nine years earlier.

But if this is truly to be the day of Dolores Claiborne’s reckoning, she has a few things of her own that she’d like to get off her chest...and begins to confess a spirited, intimate, and harrowing tale of the darkest secrets hidden within her hardscrabble existence, revealing above all one woman’s unwavering determination to weather the storm of her life with grace and protect the one she loves, no matter what the cost...

Frances Sternhagen was made for this book

This one made me have to admit- Stephen King is a good writer. The story was engaging, humorous, scary at times, with a nice little twist at the end.
What really made it a great experience was the narrator. Her delivery- and accent- made me forget I was listening to a book- more like I was sitting across from her, listening to her story.
I was looking for a "light read" and got much more.

Great story

Narration by the reader was fantastic and the story had my interest throughout, I love Steven King books and this one about a potentially real life situation and the characters point of view was truly wonderful.

Story is wonderful

The story was wonderful but the narrative was skippy and twice it repeated it self for well over 15 minutes. The narrative I feel matched the character but her voice was screeching half the time and sometimes made it hard to listen to.

this is my favorite ever

every woman should read this, great female characters, wish there were more like this. unfortunately it's a unicorn.

good

Enjoyed listening to it as much as I enjoyed reading it. Loved the movie will be watching it in the future