Seren Amara Audiobooks

Feng Shui for Beginners: a calm, practical introduction to arranging a home

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.5/5 average

18 listener ratings

Who is Seren Amara?

Tone is what makes or breaks a guide of this kind. Go too mystical and the sceptics leave; go too brisk and the subject loses its point entirely. Feng Shui for Beginners is pitched squarely at the person standing in a slightly wrong-feeling living room, wondering whether the sofa is the problem.

Seren Amara writes for that listener. The book is filed under home and garden rather than spirituality, which is a telling choice: the emphasis falls on arrangement, light, flow and the ordinary decisions of a lived-in space, with the older philosophy present as a framework rather than a doctrine to be swallowed whole.

What we know of the author beyond this comes from the work, and we are content to leave it there.

Seren Amara in audiobooks

The audiobook runs a shade under seven hours and is read by Kat Bohn, whose unhurried delivery suits material meant to be absorbed rather than skimmed. Instructional listening carries a particular difficulty, since you cannot flick back to a diagram, and the writing here is structured with that in mind: room by room, principle by principle.

Ratings sit at 4.5 from a modest set of reviews, which feels about right for something with a clear brief and a satisfied audience. If you are moving house, rethinking a flat or simply tired of a room that never quite settles, this is the obvious starting point.

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