
The Best of Adam Sharp
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Narrated by:
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David Barker
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By:
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Graeme Simsion
About this listen
The heart-warming new novel from Graeme Simsion, the international best-selling author of The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect.
Can you define your life by a single song? Adam Sharp - former pianist in a hip Melbourne bar, now a respectable IT consultant in Norwich - can. And it's 'You're Going to Lose That Girl'....
On the cusp of 50 and a happy introvert, Adam is content. He's the music expert at his local pub quiz, and he and his partner, Claire, rumble along. Life may not be rock n' roll, but neither is it easy listening. Yet something has always felt off-key. And that's his nostalgia for what might have been, his blazing affair - more than 20 years ago, on the other side of the world - with Angelina Brown, a smart and sexy, strong-willed actress who taught him for the first time, as he played piano and she sang, what it meant to find - and then lose - love. How different might his life be if he hadn't let her walk away?
Then, out of nowhere, Angelina gets in touch. Adam has sung about second chances, but does he have the courage to believe in them?
The Best of Adam Sharp is about growing old and feeling young, about happy times and sad memories, about staying together and drifting apart, but most of all it's about how the music we make together creates the soundtrack that shapes our lives.
©2017 Grame Simsion (P)2017 Penguin AudioBrilliantly written, very clever, totally recommend
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Would you listen to The Best of Adam Sharp again? Why?
hey, it's a great listen, is it a two timer, probably notWhat did you like best about this story?
it's not Rosie, but it keeps you indulged until the endHave you listened to any of David Barker’s other performances? How does this one compare?
First David Barker performance, very good....Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
won't spoil the end, it's a good bookAny additional comments?
stick with it, you will enjoyRoller Coaster
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Got a bit bizarre all the sequences in France and not very believable
But overall listenable and amusing in parts
A bit over indulgent
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The best novel I've read this year.
Would make a great film
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A very different book to the Rosie Project
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it's for an older audience.
lots of flawed humans. lots of perspective. lots of wisdom gleaned over the years. and well written.
the music is really good too... the playlist. I'll try to read it with the playlist one day.
nothing like the Rosie project
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Disappointing
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because the night (by Bruce Springsteen, and patty Smith, as you will discover for zillion times) is mentioned numerous times without bringing anything new to the story... and that's just an example.
starts nice, drags on ...
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Massively disappointing
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Unlikeable characters going monotonously through all the questions everyone ever has about a young love which doesn't work out. Just made me feel sad for the world. Disappointing, especially after The Rosie Project.
Navel gazing and melancholy times. Unlikeable characters and predictable outcome.
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