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The Lodger

By: Gabriel Bergmoser
Narrated by: Chloe Bayliss, Emily Weir, Jamie Oxenbould, Stephen Peacocke
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Ryan and Sophie are a golden couple in Melbourne, the charming, salt-of-the-earth country boy and the charismatic, gorgeous social butterfly. When Ryan’s father dies, leaving them the family farm, it seems like a chance for Ryan to get back to his roots and for Sophie to embrace the bucolic country life she always dreamed of. But reality proves very different, and years spent struggling against an implacable drought have pushed their marriage – and finances – to the absolute limit.

Things change when a jovial middle-aged man hires out their guest house. George’s curiosity, optimism and eccentric ideas prove to be a strange kind of balm for the couple. But as his suggestions for fixing their marriage take on a dangerous, sinister edge, both Ryan and Sophie are forced to confront how far they are willing to go to avoid hard truths – and whether George is in fact who he says he is.

Meanwhile, across the country, a young fugitive named Maggie is hunting for a man with whom she shares a twisted mutual obsession. A man who has a lot in common with George. And one who might be doing everything in his power to draw her into a final, decisive showdown.

Patricia Highsmith meets Jane Harper in this psychological thriller from the author of The Hitchhiker.

©2024 Gabriel Bergmoser (P)2024 Audible Australia Pty Ltd. Crime Thrillers
Chloe Bayliss
Emily Weir
Jamie Oxenbould
Stephen Peacocke

About the Performer

Chloe Bayliss is a Helpmann Award nominee and 2016 finalist for the Heath Ledger Scholarship. Her television credits include Doctor Doctor, Love Child, Reef Doctors, Dance Academy and Deadly Women. Her film credits include Backtrack, starring alongside Adrian Brody, Driftwood Dustmites and Mumlife*, which premiered in competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival-La Cinef. In 2023, she also co-produced and acted in NEXT, the web series. On stage, Chloe has starred in Gloria, Home Invasion, The Whale, Charitable Intent, Rapture Blister Burn, Circle Mirror Transformation, The Good Doctor and Boxing Day BBQ. Chloe released her memoir En Pointe in 2019.

About the Performer

Best known for her series regular role of Mackenzie in Home & Away (Seven), Emily has also appeared in many stage productions, including Dorine in Tartuffe (Queensland Theatre Company/Black Swan). The role earned her two Matilda Awards for Best New Talent and Best Supporting Actress. From there, she went on to playing Georgina Templeton in Laboite Theatre Company’s Dead Devils of Cockle Creek. Other credits include: QUT’s Hamlet as Hamlet, Arkadina from The Seagull, and Reggie Flutty in The Laramie Project, as well as dipping her toes into the short films After Hours and Jack and Jill, both by KP Productions.

Jamie Oxenbould

Jamie Oxenbould has been an actor for over 30 years and has worked for most of the major theatre companies in Sydney, including Ensemble, Griffin, Bell Shakespeare, Outhouse, Darlinghurst Theatre, Old Fitz and Apocalypse. His television credits include Ten Pound Poms, Secret City 2, My Place and as a Play School Presenter. He has worked consistently in the voice-over industry commercially and in animations, including Oh Yuck, Gasp, I Got a Rocket, Raggs and Tabaluga. He has written for comedy and reality TV, and written and directed short films which screened at Flickerfest, St Kilda Film Festival, Tropfest, BOFA, Adelaide Film Festival and LA Shorts Festival. Stage-writing credits include: The Spear Carrier, Gods and Little Fishes (co-writer), Chicken in a Biscuit (co-writer) and Midnight Murder at Hamlington Hall (co-writer).

About the Performer

Stephen Peacocke is an award-winning actor who has appeared in RFDS (Seven), The Newsreader (ABC), Five Bedrooms (Paramount), Human Error (Nine), Les Norton (ABC), Squinters (ABC), Wanted (Netflix), Rake (ABC) and Informer 3838 (Nine Network). Feature films include Before Dawn, Danger Close, Little Monsters, Hercules: The Thracian Wars, Whisky Tango Foxtrot and Me Before You. Stephen grew up in Dubbo in Central Western New South Wales, working as a Jackaroo on a large-scale sheep and cattle station. Before acting, his passion was Rugby Union, playing at First Grade and Representative levels throughout his schooling and adult life.

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stellar voice cast! the driver chapters gave me chills

Stepping back into Maggie's Universe and the Driver. absolutely epic, an important chapter in the over arching story. Gaberiel, you've done it again. Now I just need the physical print version. Fast paced, engaging and with stupendously creepy narrators that they me think into the story.

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Great storyline

I like the storyline, it flowed well, easy to follow and the narrative was great too

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Great character description.

The description of each character brought them to life in your mind. Story kept you guessing.

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interesting story, enjoyed the whole recording including the sad ending with Ryan & his wife

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Very average

A middle of the range story. Not brilliant, not bad. The narrator of the Maggie chapters was difficult to tolerate - she was an effective and engaging reader, but her voice was too ‘high school’ girlish for me. Storyline was cliched, and far from believable, but it was a tolerable listen.

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Loved the next Maggie update

Another great story. I made excuses to finish this book in one day. Loved it.

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Chilling cast

Fantastic cast really brought out the best in this story, so chilling and creepy! Actually listened to this before I realised it was a sequel to the Hitchiker and the voices are different in that Audible which was confusing at first. Really preferred the Driver in this sequel, completely creeped me out

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Awful narrator early on

Couldn’t continue listening to the awful voice of the first female narrator ….. didn’t listen to the rest !!!

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