• Flight of the Cuckoo

  • Revenge Is Sweet...and Incredibly Addictive
  • By: K. L. Smith
  • Narrated by: Ink Arnadine
  • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Flight of the Cuckoo

By: K. L. Smith
Narrated by: Ink Arnadine
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A funny novel of twists and turns, life, death, love, and of course...revenge.

This is the dark but humorous tale of Sarah Pemberton, who is not a happy woman. A down-to-earth, inventive soul who despises her stuck-up, pompous husband Neil, who believes he is much more intelligent and important than she is. When he refuses her a divorce and emotionally blackmails her into staying with him by threatening to take custody of their daughter, she decides to make life a little more entertaining for herself—by subtly torturing him at every available opportunity.

Creative and adaptable by nature, with a wicked sense of humor, she comes up with more and more ways to ridicule him, without him ever knowing she has a hand in it....

"During 1993 and 1994, amongst other things, I cooked him a meat pie with pedigree chum, stole his car more times than I can count, put chili powder in his underpants, sent a stripagram to his work (a fat one), and subscribed him to a gay porn mag! (Our paperboy avoided him like the plague after that.)"

Finding accomplices in the form of her aunt May, who lives in a crumbling old former hotel which was damaged during WWII, and May's two lodgers, a shy young hippy named Darren, along with his brother Matthew, a former life model, they try to get rid of her husband by either Plan A—which consists of "frame him for a crime so that he gets incarcerated"—or Plan B—drive him to a nervous breakdown. Both plans are designed to discredit Neil in case of a custody battle for their daughter.

There is only one little prerequisite for every little torturous idea, though, and that is...ii has to make them laugh!

Unbeknownst to Sarah at first, she isn't the only one with a vendetta against her husband; his entire workforce hates his guts and exploits any opportunity to make him look bad.

When plans A and B go disastrously wrong, Sarah and co. set their sights on a new target: her in-laws.

©2014 Kerry Louise Smith (P)2022 Kerry Louise Smith

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Pricelessly Comical

Oh, the images brought to mind as K. L. Smith describes, in spectacular detail, how Sarah sets in motion the downfall of her oppressive, controlling husband. The hilarious machinations leading to his demise are sure to bring joy to everyone. Ink Arnadine's masterful narration brings the reader smack-dab into the fray with rib tickling joviality.

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Hilarious!!

The karma is palpable!! I love the mischievousness of an underestimated downtrodden woman getting her own back!! The narrator, Ink Arnadine, is superb, beautifully conveying the tone of the writing!

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