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Maggie's Tree Audio Book

Author
Julie Walters
Genre
Media
Audio Book
Publisher
Orion
ISBN
9780752875675
Audio Extract
Reviewer
Jayne

Synopsis

It was supposed to be 'a lovely break'. As their mutual friend Helena is the toast of Broadway, stand-up comedian Cissie O'Brien, who is the nation's darling with her popular television series, decides to take the beautiful and troubled actress Maggie Salt to New York to see her. But Maggie, a destructive whirlpool of a personality, is cracking up fast - 'out of her tree' - and on arrival she suddenly disappears into the freezing February night, no one knows where. As the search for their friend continues, dangerous cracks occur in the lifelong relationships of Cissie, Helena and her stoic husband Mark. Helena has always been utterly self-centred and now Cissie, haunted by the tabloid outing of her relationship with her lover Jenny back home, disappears too. Now, two of the closest of friends are lost separately somewhere in snowbound Manhattan. Meanwhile, Maggie has been rescued by a stranger, Michael, who offers her sanctuary of a highly ambiguous kind.

Review

I have read the book Maggie's Tree, and loved it.  I enjoyed listening to the discs especially as Julie Walters reads the book herself. 

Julie is brilliant at all the voices and she made the book come alive as I had imagined she would do.  Her different tones and inflections are  so comical that they have you laughing at some parts of the book. Some of the parts should not be laughed at because of the problems that the charactor Julie plays within the book of Maggie Salt has many problems because of her dementia, but they really are very very funny! 

Julie has a wonderful way with words and you realise that she is such a good actress and story teller,  that you just have to hear it from start to finish. An excellent story to listen to.

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