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Looking for Eden

By: Caroline Overington
Narrated by: Zindzi Okenyo, Ella Scott Lynch, Hazem Shammas
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When a simple mix-up leaves their father Joe’s estate to Eden, their long-absent mother, Clare and Aaron decide it’s finally time to track Eden down. But it’s been over thirty years since she left their remote outback mining town, and they’ve never heard from her again.

Aaron is dealing with a new marriage that’s currently trapped in immigration limbo, and his teenage daughter Cady is clearly going through a personal crisis of her own. After decades away, Clare has flown home from New York for Joe’s funeral, leaving her high-powered job and her not-quite-fiancé behind for what she thinks will be a short trip.

Neither Aaron or Clare are prepared for a fight for their inheritance against the mother who abandoned them as children. As they dig through years of secrets and lies in their tiny community to uncover the truth about Eden and Joe, will they notice the more immediate danger that threatens their family?

Caroline Overington is a bestselling Australian author and an award-winning journalist. She has written several bestselling audiobooks, including the The Cuckoo's Cry, Ghost Child and I Came to Say Goodbye. She has profiled many of the world's most famous women, including Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton, and has twice won the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism. She has also won the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Journalistic Excellence and the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature. Caroline is currently Associate Editor at The Australian and is based in Sydney.

©2023 Caroline Overington (P)2023 Audible Australia Pty Ltd.

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Lots of twists

Surprisingly good listen. It held my interest, it has lots of twists at the end.

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Nice easy listening

I enjoyed the multiple voices and viewpoint of the story. Bring up some difficult points, such as loss of mother and predatory behavior of an adult male.

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I was expecting more than a potpourri of problems

Semi-spoiler alerts. Based on the reviews I read and the audible category it was in, I was expecting a mystery or a thriller, but was disappointed. It was as if the author decided to take every sensitive subject and address them all so that she could appeal to every demographic… Cheating partner check family drama check date rape check family mystery check. It never went deep into any of the characters. It just was OK. Narration was good.

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Another Great Listen

I think this is my 5th book by this author; all from the Plus Catalog. They are all so well written, so engaging and complex, without getting muddy. The characters are well fleshed out, and the plot thoughtfully drawn.
And free on Plus! Thanks Audible for making the caliber of free offerings so high.

Narration was perfection as well.

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Really enjoyed this story

Story was very interesting to follow, good characters and narration was great. I do recommend this one!

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Loved Looking for Eden

I loved everything about this story! And then the ending took that dark turn. I just absolutely love Caroline Overington’s books!!!

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Great story!

Love this author.. this one dragged on a bit for me though. The plot twists were surprising

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Soothing narrator

The story was simple with little twists and turns it was a very “human” srtory

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Entertaining reading with plenty keep you thinking

I enjoyed this book very much. The plot twists were great and kept me wondering at possibilities which did not happen predictably. I, too, am enjoying the visual picture of outback communities from the eyes of Australian authors..

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Great but… the ending???

I love this author and have listened to all of her books. I would have loved for her to have spent some more time on the ending about the mom. It was just kind of casually mentioned and the whole plot was built up around it.

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