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The Cuckoo's Cry

Written by: Caroline Overington
Narrated by: Aimee Horne
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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. Domestic Thrillers Thriller & Suspense
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Brilliant performance and a story that seemed ordinarily ending, ended nicely, narration was awesome I felt I was there as the events happened.

A nice twist at the end

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Nobody waits for so long to report to the police about a suspiscious person.

Story is nonsense.

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I expected different plot twist that didn't happen overall slow moving story with a simplestoryline

Story flows steadily

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Again I picked up this because of the short read and also because I wanted to try a new author. Turned out the author is Australian and the setting is Australia. Not my first Australian authour, but I have to confess that having read a whole lot of American and British authors, I'm not a great fan of Australian authors.

The storyline seems stretched, the premise interesting but not entirely believable due to the action of the characters involved. If someone does enter my family home ( after nearly 20 years ) with however much of a great reason, I would still do background checks irrespective of the compelling story they told me. Just unbelievable, the level of trust.

Just for this the story seems forced, and making the reader go through the entire unbelievable rigmarole that is laid bare. It's just a lot of verbiage that one has to go through while feeling uneasy at the back of the mind, knowing the strain of the story.

t was terrible, yet I felt compelled to see it through since I had already come this far.

Cuckoo!

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