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Broken

By: Daniel Clay
Narrated by: Colin Moody
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Skunk Cunningham is an 11-year-old girl in a coma. She has a loving dad, an absent mother and a brother who plays more X-Box than is good for him. She also has the neighbours from hell: the five Oswald girls and their thuggish father Bob, vicious bullies all of them, whose reign of terror extends unchallenged over their otherwise quiet suburban street. And yet terrifying though they undoubtedly are, the stiletto-wearing, cider-swilling Oswald girls are also sexy - so when Saskia asks shy, virginal Rick Buckley for a ride in his new car, he can't believe his luck. Too bad that Saskia can't keep her big mouth shut. When, after a quick fumble, she broadcasts Rick's deficiencies to anyone who will listen, it puts ideas into her younger sister's silly head - ideas that will see Rick dragged off to prison, humiliated, and ultimately, in his father's words, 'broken' by the experience.©2007 Daniel Clay (P)2008 Bolinda Publishing Family Life Genre Fiction Sagas Women's Fiction
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"There are many good things here: it's bold, prescient, engaging and oddly touching." (The Guardian)
"Daniel Clay's debut novel is remarkably controlled and disciplined as it depicts those who spiral out of control." (The Independent)
"Colin Moody's chilling reading evokes the cruelties of the bullying Oswald family and the neighborhood and school they victimize. We see through the eyes of 11-year-old Skunk, who lies comatose in the hospital. Moody maximizes the tension as we wonder what led to her situation and then view a horrific string of events that begin as Skunk's teenage neighbor, 'Broken' Buckley, is tormented by the five Oswald sisters and beaten by their terrible deadbeat father. Skunk faces harassment in her class and questions her place, rights, and dreams in the world. You listen appalled, but addicted, held as captive to the audio as Skunk, her parents, teachers, and friends are to the Oswalds." (AudioFile Magazine)
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Ich habe bei dieser einfühlsam erzählten Geschicht gelacht und (fast) geweint. Sehr liebevoll und tiefgründig werden die einzelnen Charaktere herausgearbeitet und in die flüssig erzählte Story eingebunden.

Es gab in den ganzen 13,5 Stunden keine Längen und ich konnte es kaum erwarten, endlich weiterhören zu können.

Wirklich äußerst hörenswert!!

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Wie jedes Mal ist das Hörbücher von Monica Mcinerney mit einer guten Geschichte ausgestattet, die toll gelesen wird. Klare Sprache kein Akzent.

gute Geschichte, gute Erzählerin

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