Amy and Isabelle
A Novel
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Amy and Isabelle
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Narrated by:
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Stephanie Roberts
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By:
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Elizabeth Strout
About this listen
With compassion, humor, and striking insight, Amy and Isabelle explores the secrets of sexuality that jeopardize the love between a mother and her daughter. Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student in a small mill town, falls in love with her math teacher, and together they cross the line between understandable fantasy and disturbing reality. When discovered, this emotional and physical trespass brings disgrace to Amy's mother, Isabelle, and intensifies the shame she feels about her own past. In a fury, she lashes out at her daughter's beauty and then retreats into outraged silence. Amy withdraws, too, and mother and daughter eat, sleep, and even work side by side but remain at a vast, seemingly unbridgeable distance from each other.
This conflict is surrounded by other large and small dramas in the town of Shirley Falls: a teenage pregnancy, a UFO sighting, a missing child, and the trials of Fat Bev, the community's enormous (and enormously funny and compassionate) peacemaker and amateur medical consultant. Keeping Isabelle and Amy as the main focus of her sharp, sympathetic eye, Elizabeth Strout attends to them all. As she does so, she reveals not only her deep affection for her characters, both serious and comic, but her profound wisdom about the human condition in general. She makes us care about these extraordinary ordinary people and makes us hope that they will find a way out of their often self-imposed emotional exile.
©2013 Elizabeth Strout (P)2013 Random House AudioCritic Reviews
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- Ciaran
- 19-04-2020
So Good!
I was really disappointed that the teacher didn't turn out to be the murderer of the young girl. Would have wrapped it up nicely that Isabelle's boss was actually Amy's saviour. But all in all, a beautiful book.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-06-2021
loved loved loved this book!
so many layers and complex characters to this story. thoroughly enjoyable, and brilliantly narrated. excellent!
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- Helen Jones
- 28-04-2020
as good as it gets
a brilliant coming of age novel, brimming with insights into human character and motivation. honest, beautiful and unsentimental. read with sensitivity and rare skill.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-03-2023
Simply wonderful.
Elizabeth Strout has such a knack for lifting the veil off seemingly mundane, unimportant lives and revealing the pathos and wonderful humanity that lies just behind that exterior drabness.
Her ability to do this so deftly and with such sympathy and wry humour is a gift to us all.
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- Rebecca
- 13-10-2020
Just loved it
An understated and true feeling narrative. Great if your just after a slice of life written and performed well.
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- Sophia Cosmas
- 20-05-2019
Exceptional performance by Stephanie Roberts does Strouts novel justice in ways most unexpected.
The first thing I have to say about this audiobook is that it was one of the best, most performances I’ve experienced - and I’ve made my way quite a number. Hats off and a standing ovation to Stephanie Roberts. She really brought Elizabeth Strout’s story to life, in all its wondrous, insightful, sometimes uncomfortable glory.
I binge listened.
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- Karina Mereki
- 17-10-2022
A wonderful heartfelt story
This story highlights the trials and tribulations of mother and daughter relationship. The feelings of shame and how we deal with these internally and externally. Elizabeth Strout is a most gifted writer of our times, with her attention to detail and such sensitivity to the human condition makes all her books well worth reading.
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