
The Bus on Thursday
A Novel
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Katherine Littrell
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Shirley Barrett
The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett is a darkly humorous audiobook about one woman’s post-cancer retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her.
It wasn’t just the bad breakup that turned Eleanor Mellett’s life upside down. It was the cancer. And all the demons that came with it.
One day she felt a bit of a bump when she was scratching her armpit at work. The next thing she knew, her breast was being dissected and removed by an inappropriately attractive doctor, and she was suddenly deluged with cupcakes, judgy support groups, and her mum knitting sweaters.
Luckily, Eleanor discovers Talbingo, a remote little town looking for a primary-school teacher. Their Miss Barker up and vanished in the night, despite being the most caring teacher ever, according to everyone. Unfortunately, Talbingo is a bit creepy. It’s not just the communion-wine-guzzling friar prone to mad rants about how cancer is caused by demons. Or the unstable, overly sensitive kids, always going on about Miss Barker and her amazing sticker system. It’s living alone in a remote cabin, with no cell or Internet service, wondering why there are so many locks on the front door and who is knocking on it late at night.
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Like all small towns in these books the people in the town are not the sweet, endearing characters Elenore thought they'd be.
Towards the end of the story Elenore is finally about to get on the bus, one that's been talked about throughout the story, the bus on Thursday, and just as she reaches the bus, mid sentence, Audible closing credits come on. I still have no idea who or what is waiting for Elenore on that bus.
I did email the author and the narrator to see if one of them can get this fixed but til it's fixed, the last few minutes of the story are missing.
Update: I have since learned the "missing" part of the book is actually how the story ends.
Warning, Ending is missing from Audiobook
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Eleanor is already coming unhinged when she finds out she has breast cancer in her early 30s. After treatment, she ends up in a remote village where things take a turn for the slightly supernatural. As her life continues to unravel, you get the sense that you're reading a dark and strange commentary on the absurdity of cancer. I love that this story doesn't fit into a tidy box -- Eleanor is the textbook definition of unlikable, and the ending is ambiguous af. Not your typical tug-at-the-heartstrings cancer book.
I'm not sure if this book will find a wide audience because it's so damn weird, but it definitely found a fan in me!
Bridget Jones meets The Exorcist
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Major spoiler ahead, so stop reading now if you don't want any spoilers.
Spoiler ahead.
Seriously, there's a spoiler.
If you're still here you either don't do well with directions or you're chill with spoilers.
I'm not kidding, I will spoil this book for you.
If you haven't read it, turn back now!
Do you want the book spoiled? Really?
Ok, I warned you.
The ending literally just cuts off mid sentence. We don't find out if Elenor was dead the whole time, if she was hallucinating because her cancer spread to her brain, or if she was actually the ghost of Ms. B. Why was Ryan sleeping with Ms. B? Was Gregory real or was he a demon? Was anyone real? Who's ashes did Gregory spread around the room? Literally not a single question was answered. I'm so frustrated. I guess the cover art was foreshadowing the ending, the word "novel" isn't finished and this novel is technically not finished.
what the heck was that ending?
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Narrator saves it
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Disappointed
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Great Book Until the End
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surprising, great listen
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Good to pass the time but not gripping
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idiodic
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Hilarious but dark
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