Sharon Booth Audiobooks

There Must Be an Angel: warm comic fiction from Kearton Bay

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.6/5 average

1 listener rating

Who is Sharon Booth?

Comic fiction with a fixed address is a particular pleasure. A Kearton Bay Novel is the label our catalogue carries for Sharon Booth’s work here, and putting the place on the cover is a promise of return visits, familiar faces and plots that keep circling the same few streets.

Filed under comedy and humour, There Must Be an Angel belongs to the warm end of British storytelling: character-led, gently barbed, far more interested in the awkwardness of ordinary lives than in punchlines. Eleven and a half hours gives that kind of writing room to breathe, which is precisely what it needs.

Nothing beyond the work is claimed on this page, and the work is quite enough to be going on with.

Sharon Booth in audiobooks

The audiobook is performed by Larner Wallace-Taylor, and a comic novel of this length lives or dies on the narrator’s timing. Delivery has to land the joke that the sentence merely sets up, and that is the skill on offer here.

It has been on the shelves since 2019 with very few ratings logged, so treat the average as a curiosity rather than as evidence. The better recommendation is the setting itself: if you like fiction with a strong sense of place and a comic register that never turns cruel, Kearton Bay will suit you nicely.

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