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  • Love Objects

  • By: Emily Maguire
  • Narrated by: Zoe Carides
  • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (129 ratings)

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Love Objects

By: Emily Maguire
Narrated by: Zoe Carides
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Publisher's Summary

A stunning, simply told story of great compassion and insight, from the author of the Stella Prize-shortlisted An Isolated Incident.

Nic is a 45-year-old trivia buff, amateur nail artist and fairy godmother to the neighbourhood's stray cats. She's also the owner of a decade's worth of daily newspapers, enough clothes and shoes to fill Big W three times over and a pen collection which, if laid end-to-end, would probably circle her house twice.

The person she's closest to in the world is her beloved niece Lena, who she meets for lunch every Sunday. One day Nic fails to show up. When Lena travels to her aunt's house to see if Nic's all right, she gets the shock of her life, and sets in train a series of events that will prove cataclysmic for them both.

By the acclaimed author of An Isolated Incident, Love Objects is a clear-eyed, heart-wrenching and deeply compassionate novel about love and family, betrayal and forgiveness and the things we do to fill our empty spaces.

©2021 Emily Maguire (P)2021 W F Howes

Critic Reviews

"Bold, furious, unapologetic and deeply insightful." (Sofie Laguna, author of Infinite Splendours)

"A stunning, immersive novel that will change the conversation about class and about what possessions mean. It's important and funny and sad and beautiful, and I absolutely adored it." (Kathryn Heyman, author of Storm and Grace and Fury)

"One of the most big-hearted novels I've ever read. Each person fully formed, each scene and new catastrophe rooted in truth." (Bri Lee, author of Eggshell Skull)

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Worthy of a monthly credit

Relevant with today's times and enjoyable to listen to. Great to listen to a different Australian narrator.

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Insightful and beautiful

A remarkable story of how we attach and de-attach ourselves to the people or objects around us to feel to safe and loved. A insightful and beautiful book

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love the story. love the characters.

the narrator has an annoying a.f. bogan voice that is over the top. the story is good. I have to re imagine it in my own voice

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Authentic and gutsy

Great narratine about strengths and imperfections in family relationships and the struggle to move beyond class expectations.

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Fabulous performance by Zoe Carides 👏🏼

Love objects is a brilliant story of how we deal so differently with our own private struggles with pain, grief, family dynamics, and love in all its messy piles of glory. Its about how life can beat us up badly, and yet our human spirit will always find ways to glue the pieces back together, even if a little wonkily and carry on finding the good in the world, and the people we love. Highly recommend. 👌🏼🌻

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pretty good!

The characters felt very real to me. The story too. There was something I didn't love about it (perhaps the swap between character narration?) that meant it was never a "I can't put this book down" story. Overall, a pretty good book

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Zoe Carides’ narration was good, she had the characters voices down, fitting with the characterisations. The story lifts the lid on one family and how their lives intertwine and at times collide while they navigate life and what it has thrown at them. Realistic situations and family relationships of a sometimes dysfunction unit… aren’t they all at some point? If they aren’t you, it could be your neighbours. I liked it.

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A Delight!

A great story with wonderful characters. Enhanced by the best narration Australian I’ve heard and I listen to over a hundred audiobooks each year. Earthy, raw, tender and endearing.

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The other side of collecting

A view into the normality of hoarding disorder and the comfort it brings. I actually found myself jealous of Nic at times and her ability to remember with such vividness her treasured fleeting moments. The recent setting complete with bushfire haze, entitled and privileged school boys getting away with anything, me too movement and class divide added a realness for me. I forgot at times these characters are not real and they don't live an hour from where I grew up! I really enjoyed both the story and performance.

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Took time to get into….

There are some interesting characters in this book. Will was the most interesting fir me.

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