A Sheltered Woman
- Author Yiyun Li
- Narrator Laurence Bouvard
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 16 July 2015
- Run Time 39 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Social issues, Short stories.
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Winner of the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize
Auntie Mei is a live-in nanny for newborns and their mothers. She has worked for a hundred and twenty-six families and looked after a hundred and thirty-one babies, one set of clients easily replaced by the next. But the hundred and thirty-second baby and his mother Chanel prompts a crisis in Auntie Mei’s life – a tremor that threatens to destroy her resolute detachment.
Critics Review
‘Li inhabits the lives of her characters with such force and compassion that one cannot help but marvel at her remarkable talents.’ Junot Díaz
n| Author | Yiyun Li |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Laurence Bouvard |
| Duration | 39 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9780008153687 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Genre | Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Social issues, Short stories |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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