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The Woman Next Door: A Novel Audiobook, by Yewande Omotoso Play Audiobook Sample

The Woman Next Door: A Novel Audiobook

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Read By: Adjoa Andoh Publisher: Random House Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: February 2017 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781524757151

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

95

Longest Chapter Length:

08:59 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

13 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

05:21 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

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Publisher Description

Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black, one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both have recently been widowed. And both are sworn enemies, sharing hedge and hostility and pruning both with a vim and zeal that belies the fact that they are over eighty.

 

But one day an unforeseen event forces the women together. And gradually the bickering and sniping softens into lively debate, and from there into memories shared. But could these sparks of connection ever transform into friendship? Or is it too late to expect these two to change?

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“Omotoso captures the changing racial relations since the 1950s, as well as the immigrant experience through personal detail and small psychological insights into mixed emotions, the artist’s eye, and widow’s remorse. Hers is a fresh voice as adept at evoking the peace of walking up a kopje as the cruelty of South Africa’s past.”

— Publishers Weekly

Quotes

  • “A tale of a rivalry between two well-to-do widows and next-door-neighbors in South Africa…On the surface…presents a war of wits, but the story also addresses the history of colonialism, slavery, class, and race as tensions come to a head.”

    — Time

Awards

  • Publishers Weekly Pick of Writers to Watch for Spring 2017
  • A Refinery29 Pick of the Most Anticipated Books of 2017
  • Longlisted for the 2017 Baileys’ Women’s Prize for Fiction
  • Essence Magazine Pick for Best Black Heritage Reads
  • Millions.com Pick for Most Anticipated Books of 2017

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About Yewande Omotoso

Yewande Omotoso was born in Barbados and grew up in Nigeria, moving to South Africa with her family in 1992. She is the author of Bom Boy, published in South Africa in 2011. In 2012, she won the South African Literary Award for First-Time Published Author and was shortlisted for the South African Sunday Times Fiction Prize. In 2013 she was a finalist for the inaugural, pan-African Etisalat Fiction Prize.

About Adjoa Andoh

Adjoa Andoh is an Audie Award and Earphones Award–winning narrator and an actress of British film, television, stage, and radio. In 2022, she was awarded the AudioFile Golden Voice Award. She is known on the UK stage for lead roles at the RSC, the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre, and the Almeida Theatre, and she is a familiar face on British television. She made her Hollywood debut starring as Nelson Mandela’s chief of staff, Brenda Mazikubo, alongside Morgan Freeman as Mandela in Clint Eastwood’s Invictus.