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The Cuckoo's Cry

By: Caroline Overington
Narrated by: Aimee Horne
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Publisher's summary

On the eve of the global lockdown, Don Barlow opens the door of his old beachside cottage to find a pretty girl with pink-tipped hair, claiming to have nowhere to go.

He allows her entry, and so begins a mystery set in unprecedented times: with the virus raging outside their home, the girl cannot be asked to leave, but what does he risk by having her stay?

Caroline Overington is a bestselling Australian author and an award-winning journalist. She has written several bestselling audiobooks, including the Looking for Eden, Ghost Child and I Came to Say Goodbye. She has profiled many of the world's most famous women, including Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton, and has twice won the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism. She has also won the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Journalistic Excellence and the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature. Caroline is currently Associate Editor at The Australian and is based in Sydney.

©2020 Caroline Overington (P)2020 Audible Australia Pty Ltd.

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About the Creator

Caroline Overington is an award-winning writer and a former foreign correspondent. She is the author of 13 books, including nine crime thrillers; and a historical study of 19th century women's suffrage called Last Woman Hanged, which won the 2016 Davitt Prize. She has a home in beachside Bondi that she shares with her partner, boy-girl twins, and an old blue dog.

About the Performer

Aimee Horne is an Australian voiceover artist and actor. Trained at National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA), she has worked extensively in theater, film, television, and radio. Aimee voiced Cottontail in the animated feature Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway. Some of her other voice credits include FX sketch animation series, Psychotown and feature documentary, Brabham: The Untold Story of Formula One. Since 2013, Aimee has been lending her voice to major international projects and national campaigns. She has narrated eight audiobooks and delights in bringing an author’s story to new audiences. She loves traveling, animals, watching TV murder mysteries, and lives in Sydney with her partner.

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A sweet but melancholy story of family, old loves, anger and endearment. A story line we all know from some other time.

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Interesting listen but

but there are gaps that aren't explained if they were meant to enhance the story - like why mother and father state the same child was born in two d
different years.

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Fabulous

this is a great short novel. I enjoyed every minute but especially toward the end there's a great surprise. the ending is very well-crafted and emotionally powerful.

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Surprisingly captivating

Not since "A Handmaid's Tale" have I been unable to step away from a story. Filled with mystery, concern, confusion, surprise, and bittersweet resolve. For anyone who enjoys family intrigue, I highly recommend this listen. Superbly performed.

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Timely and Genius!

I have never heard of this author before but I will definitely be looking into her work. To be able to write a full mystery/thriller novel taking place in the COVID-19 era, when we’re only about five months into said era, is genius!

While I basically figured out the gist of what was coming about halfway through the novel, unlike some other authors, this author wrote this novel so cleverly that I kept second-guessing myself. There was one minor discrepancy but otherwise this novel
was pitch perfect. Again, this is about our current era. How did she write this so quickly and so expertly?

The narrator is also fantastic! I cannot recommend this delightful read enough?

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The Cuckoo’s Cry

A delightfully fun story with a very modern subject, our current Pandemic!! While it does not focus specifically on the pandemic, it does demonstrate how it affected the lives of an extended family being reunited. I enjoyed the story about the young girl, raised to be a scammer, and how she became to love her Pop ( Grandfather). She was to scan him but in the end could not!! She saved his life while having to push her own father off a roof ! I enjoyed the interactions of his own daughter and her suspicions and detective work lol! Well performed and of course wanted to hear more after it was done!!

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First Audio Original fiction in the Winners Circle

A real story with enough depth to keep me listening with hardly a break.. Exceptionally good narration. Four hours was the perfect length to develop the story and characters and there was not a minute of extraneous detail or dialogue. I hardly choose fiction from the freebie choices because they are usually so badly written, overperformed, or just boring. This one was excellent.

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Moving Story.

The Cuckoo's Cry by Caroline Overington is a moving story. Quite Brilliant & such an eye opener. The scammers are all over the place, all over the world. Sadly, the internet makes a lot easier for these crooks..

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Cuckoo

very short detective story. it was good however not very long. recommend this for people that are nuts still attempting to go through mystery classics.

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Great fun story

Enjoyed the story very much. Couldn't wait to find out the ending. loved every minute.

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