Author

Jessica Redland Audiobooks

Blue Skies Ahead: warm-hearted fiction from The Blue Skies Collection

1 audiobook reviewed
★ 4.8/5 average
43 listener ratings

Main genres

Fiction & Literature

Author series

The Blue Skies Collection · 1 book

Who is Jessica Redland?

Blue Skies Ahead is a promise made in the title, and it is exactly the sort of promise a certain kind of fiction exists to keep: things will be difficult for a while, and then they will be better.

Jessica Redland writes on the general fiction shelf, and our catalogue groups this title within The Blue Skies Collection, a heading which suggests books meant to be read alongside one another rather than a strictly numbered saga. Nine and a half hours is the classic build for warm, character-led storytelling, long enough for a community to assemble itself around whoever stands at the centre.

We take the work at its word here and add nothing to it.

Jessica Redland in audiobooks

The score is high, and while the verdicts behind it are not yet numerous they are consistent enough to be encouraging.

Karen Cass narrates, and in fiction of this register a narrator is effectively the weather. Warmth in the reading is not decoration, it is the whole reason the genre thrives in audio, and nine and a half hours divides comfortably across a week of evenings.

Start with this one and let the collection open out from there. It is below.