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Those Pricey Thakur Girls

Written by: Anuja Chauhan
Narrated by: Avita Jay
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The new novel from the bestselling author of The Zoya Factor and Battle for Bittora.

In a sprawling bungalow on New Delhi's posh Hailey Road, Justice Laxmi Narayan Thakur and his wife, Mamta, spend their days watching anxiously over their five beautiful (but troublesome) alphabetically named daughters. Anjini, married but an incorrigible flirt; Binodini, very worried about her children's hissa in the family property; Chandrakanta, who eloped with a foreigner on the eve of her wedding; Eshwari, who is just a little too popular at Modern School, Barakhamba Road; and the judge's favourite (though fathers shouldn t have favourites): the quietly fiery Debjani, champion of all the stray animals on Hailey Road, who reads the English news on DD and clashes constantly with crusading journalist Dylan Singh Shekhawat, he of shining professional credentials but tarnished personal reputation, crushingly dismissive of her state-sponsored propaganda , but always seeking her out with half-sarcastic, half-intrigued dark eyes.

Spot-on funny and toe-curlingly sexy, Those Pricey Thakur Girls is rom-com specialist Anuja Chauhan writing at her sparkling best.

©2013 Anuja Chauhan (P)2017 Audible, Inc. Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction Romantic Comedy
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I loved the narration. took time to establish the characters but was entertaining in total. predictable end. still a good one

gripping

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average storyline....tended to get boring at times....took me a long time to finish....did not get hold of me.....english accent of narrator did not do justice to the many Hindi words in the script....style of reading could have been better.

light reading....average storyline

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The story is very modern-fairytale like. And that's the good thing about the book. It gives you that opportunity to escape into another world that isn't too different from our own. Which makes it a nice, light listen. I would compare it to watching re runs of a sitcom we've watched a million times while doing mundane tasks like cleaning your cupboard. Which is what I like about this audiobook. There is something comforting about it.
The narration is what makes it difficult to listen to.
The narrator has clearly put in a lot of effort in making different voices to add personality to each character and help us visualise them. Usually when this is done it does help you stay engaged. But the voices given to the characters of this book is comical at most parts and made me feel like I was a child listening to Karadi tales or a Sharon Prabhakar cassette meant for kids.

I wish the same effort was put into a little research on how to pronounce some of the Hindi or Indian words. Basic names like "Sridhar" or even words like "biradari" were messed up.

Overall I quite enjoyed it. It was a good listen while commuting to work.

can't escape some good escapism

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narrator was really good which made the listening experience more enjoyable being the first book by the author.

Nice story

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This was the first Anuja Chauhan book I ever read, and I enjoyed it so much I read some others as well. The fun, light and witty dialogues and the uncomplicated story were the highlights of this book for me, but the narration could be said to be subpar at best. I kept cringing at multiple points, when the narrator managed to terribly mispronounce even some relatively common Hindi words, and the different voices she used for the male characters especially just made me laugh at completely inappropriate places! Overall, I think I would rather read the actual books instead of buying another audible book narrated by this person.

Good book, but below-average narration

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