{"id":35643,"date":"2026-06-08T14:05:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/audiobb.com\/?p=35643"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:05:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:05:31","slug":"the-palm-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audiobb.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/the-palm-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The Palm House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>From the Women\u2019s Prize-shortlisted author of\u00a0<i>First Love<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Palm House<\/i>\u00a0is a sharply observed, slyly funny novel of enduring friendships and small mercies.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8216;This goes straight onto my list of favourite modern novels\u2019 \u2013\u00a0<i>The Times<\/i><br \/>\n&#8216;One of our finest novelists of constrained fury: nobody writes better&#8217; \u2013\u00a0<i>The Observer<\/i><br \/>\n&#8216;Mesmerising . . . confirms Riley as one of Britain\u2019s best&#8217; \u2013\u00a0<i>The Telegraph<\/i><br \/>\n\u2018A slim, impeccably controlled story that contains multitudes\u2019 \u2013\u00a0<i>The Guardian<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Laura and Putnam have been friends for a long time. Theirs is a happy meeting of minds, with long evenings spent huddled in an ancient pub by the Thames, where they share office gossip, reflect on their teenage passions, and lament the state of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, though, Putnam has been harder to reach: he has lost his father, and the magazine to which he has dedicated his life has been hijacked by an insufferable new editor, Simon \u2018call me Shove\u2019 Halfpenny.<\/p>\n<p>Laura has her own problems: with a prickly mother and a tricky past, and in a beautiful and indifferent city, her day-to-day life is precarious. But as Putnam starts to sink into despondency, she must try to bring him back.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>The Palm House<\/i>\u00a0offers us Gwendoline Riley\u2019s trademark keen observation and wit, and leaves us &#8211; somehow &#8211; with a curious sense of possibility. It is a slender masterpiece from one of Britain\u2019s finest prose stylists.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2018I love this book\u2019 \u2013 Sarah Perry, award-winning author of\u00a0<i>The Essex Serpent<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Outstandingly brilliant\u2019 \u2013 Claire-Louise Bennett, award-winning author of\u00a0<i>Big Kiss, Bye-Bye<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2018Riley\u2019s prose is so electric, so alive with humour and insight and passion, that by the end you will want to stand up and cheer\u2019 \u2013 Paul Murray, author of\u00a0<i>The Bee Sting<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Named a Most Anticipated Book for 2026 by:\u00a0<i>Financial Times<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Times<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Observer<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Guardian<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Telegraph<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Sunday Times<\/i>,\u00a0<i>New Statesman<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Good Housekeeping<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Country &amp; Town House<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Shortlist<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The New York Times<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Irish Times<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Vulture<\/i>,\u00a0<i>LitHub\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0<i>BBC Culture<\/i>.<\/p>\n<h3>The Palm House<\/h3>\n<p>&#8216;This goes straight onto my list of favourite modern novels\u2019 The Times<br \/>\nBy: Gwendoline Riley<br \/>\nNarrated by: Nathalie Buscombe<br \/>\nLength: 4 hrs and 54 mins<br \/>\nRelease date: 04-02-26<br \/>\nLanguage: English<br \/>\nFormat and Bitrate: M4B@125 kbps<br \/>\nSize: 267.95 MB<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rapidgator.net\/file\/b8f0b23a50761511e76b9a0c33e77110\/The_Palm_House.m4b.html\"><strong>Download from RapidGator<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Women\u2019s Prize-shortlisted author of\u00a0First Love,\u00a0The Palm House\u00a0is a sharply observed, slyly funny novel of enduring friendships and small<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389,774],"tags":[6234],"class_list":["post-35643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-life","category-womens-fiction","tag-gwendoline-riley","comments-off"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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