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A Risk Worth Taking audiobook
- By: Robin Pilcher
- Narrator: John Lee
- Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: February 11, 2004
- Language: English
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A Risk Worth Taking Audiobook Summary
The New York Times bestselling author of Starting Over and An Ocean Apart returns with his strongest work to date–a heartwarming story of love, compassion, and redemption
After the dot-com bubble burst, Dan Porter is laid off from his job and must decide what is truly important. His wife of 20 years, Jackie, a beautiful and successful managing director for a clothing designer, no longer connects with him. His teenagers Josh, Nina and Millie are distant and confusing. Jackie is tempted by the attentions of a younger man at her office, and thanks to an opportunity suggested by a magazine article, Dan finds himself contemplating a drastic change in his life.A Risk Worth Taking is an engrossing, thought-provoking novel of a man who has to discover what he really values in his work, marriage, and life. Robin Pilcher writes fluidly, and is endlessly interested in the details of his characters’ lives. He has written a poignant and moving story about the real choices adults face when they start taking stock of their lives.
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A Risk Worth Taking Audiobook Narrator
John Lee is the narrator of A Risk Worth Taking audiobook that was written by Robin Pilcher
John Lee has read more than 100 audiobooks. His work has garnered multiple Earphones Awards and won AudioFile’s Best Voice in Fiction & Classics in both 2008 and 2009. Lee narrated the audiobook for A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin, volume four of A Song of Ice and Fire. He has also read for Jack London, John Banville, Charles Dickens, and Barbara Taylor Bradford. In addition, Lee narrates video games, does voice-over work, and writes plays. He is also an accomplished stage actor and has written and co-produced the feature films Breathing Hard and Forfeit. He played Alydon in the 1963-64 Doctor Who serial The Daleks.
About the Author(s) of A Risk Worth Taking
Robin Pilcher is the author of A Risk Worth Taking
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A Risk Worth Taking Full Details
| Narrator | John Lee |
| Length | 9 hours 10 minutes |
| Author | Robin Pilcher |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | February 11, 2004 |
| ISBN | 9781593973858 |
Additional info
The publisher of the A Risk Worth Taking is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781593973858.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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