CD Audiobook
The caretakers / Amanda Bestor-Siegal.
Paris, 2015. A crowd gathers outside the Chauvet home in the affluent suburban community of Maisons-Larue, watching as the family’s American au pair is led away in handcuffs after the sudden death of her young charge. The grieving mother believes the caretaker is to blame, and the neighborhood is thrown into chaos, unsure who is at fault—the enigmatic, young foreigner or the mother herself, who has never seemed an active participant in the lives of her children. The truth lies with six women: Géraldine, a heartbroken French teacher struggling to support her vulnerable young students; Lou, an incompetent au pair who was recently fired by the family next door; Charlotte, a chilly socialite and reluctant mother; Nathalie, an isolated French teenager desperate for her mother’s attention; Holly, a socially anxious au pair yearning to belong in her adopted country; and finally, Alena, the one accused of the crime, who has gone to great lengths to avoid emotional connection, and now finds herself caught in the turbulent power dynamics of her host family’s household. Set during the weeks leading up to the event, The Caretakers is a poignant and suspenseful drama featuring complicated women. It’s a sensitive exploration of the weight of secrets, the pressures of country, community, and family—and miscommunications and misunderstandings that can have fatal consequences.
Record details
- ISBN: 9798200858538
- Physical Description: 9 audio discs (11 1/2 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York, New York] : HarperCollins Publishers [2022]
- Distributor: [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio.
- Copyright: ⓟ2022
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Unabridged. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Performed by Saskia Maarleveld. |
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| Subject: | Paris (France) > Fiction. Women > Fiction. Au pairs > Fiction. Children > Death > Fiction. Audiobooks Talking books. |
| Genre: | Fiction. Novels. Audiobooks. Talking books. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at SPARK Libraries.
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