SUNSHINE

This warm audiobook offers multiple impressions of the word "sunshine." First, Sunshine is the name of a place, a hamlet deep in remote Australia. There, characters ably portrayed by Paul English and Katherine Tonkin try to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of The Great War. Immersed in the darkness of survivors' guilt and horrifying memories, they turn their faces toward the sunshine of a new future, one full of citrus and fresh starts. Grace, sunnily captured in Tonkin's lilting tones, turns her efforts toward inspiring her husband and their new friends--all depicted well, if somewhat uniformly, by English--to embrace the warmth that still exists in the postwar world. This audiobook is a traditional blend of sorrowful and sweet. L.B.F. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine [Published: DECEMBER 2019]