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    The Bus on Thursday: A Novel
    The Bus on Thursday: A Novel
    The Bus on Thursday: A Novel
    Audiobook5 hours

    The Bus on Thursday: A Novel

    Written by Shirley Barrett

    Narrated by Katherine Littrell

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    The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett is a darkly humorous audiobook about one woman’s post-cancer retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her.

    It wasn’t just the bad breakup that turned Eleanor Mellett’s life upside down. It was the cancer. And all the demons that came with it.

    One day she felt a bit of a bump when she was scratching her armpit at work. The next thing she knew, her breast was being dissected and removed by an inappropriately attractive doctor, and she was suddenly deluged with cupcakes, judgy support groups, and her mum knitting sweaters.

    Luckily, Eleanor discovers Talbingo, a remote little town looking for a primary-school teacher. Their Miss Barker up and vanished in the night, despite being the most caring teacher ever, according to everyone. Unfortunately, Talbingo is a bit creepy. It’s not just the communion-wine-guzzling friar prone to mad rants about how cancer is caused by demons. Or the unstable, overly sensitive kids, always going on about Miss Barker and her amazing sticker system. It’s living alone in a remote cabin, with no cell or Internet service, wondering why there are so many locks on the front door and who is knocking on it late at night.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateSep 18, 2018
    ISBN9781250298126
    Author

    Shirley Barrett

    Shirley Barrett is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. She is the author of Rush Oh! and has written and directed three feature films and worked extensively as a director in television. Barrett was born in Melbourne and lives in Sydney, Australia.

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      I’m shocked by how bad this was. This can’t be considered a thriller or horror. Nothing happened and nothing made sense . And I’m totally fine with unlikeable narrators but I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a main character who had zero redeeming or relatable qualities before this (and what makes that tragic is that you can tell she wasn’t meant to be disliked).