Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61037 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sky-Crasher Author: L. Ron Hubbard Narrator: Shannon Evans, R.F. Daley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 53 minutes Release date: April 29, 2024 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: After the death of his father in an air stunt, ace pilot Caution Jones left flying behind. But he's about to find that if you want to get anywhere, you have to throw caution to the wind. His airline company's up for a monster contract, and the race is on to get it... even if he has to climb back into the cockpit. The competition is deadly... but it's his beautiful co-pilot who may get him to take the biggest risk of all. Stow your bags, secure your food trays, and prepare for take-off as the audio version of The Sky-Crasher puts you on the edge of your seat.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61040 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Under the Diehard Brand Series: Part of Golden Age Stories Author: L. Ron Hubbard Narrator: Rob Paulsen, R.F. Daley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 22 minutes Release date: April 29, 2024 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Eighteen-year-old Lee Thompson has a chip on his shoulder and a mission in his heart to save his dad, an aging sheriff who's lost control of his town. Lee's plan is a dangerous one — mix in with the desperadoes and risk death at their hand. But sometimes, the only way to restore the law is to break it. Take the law — and the action — into your hands, as the audio version of Under the Diehard Brand takes you into a town gone wild.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61035 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Black Towers to Danger Author: L. Ron Hubbard Narrator: Christina Huntington, R.F. Daley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 4 minutes Release date: April 29, 2024 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Drilling for oil is a dirty business, and for Bill Murphy, it's about to turn positively filthy. But Murphy's more than a match for everything Venezuela can throw at him.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61094 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hostage to Death Author: L. Ron Hubbard Narrator: Kelly Ward, R.F. Daley Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 59 minutes Release date: April 29, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: For Lieutenant Bill Reilly, a Westerner at war in the desert, the dream of joining the Foreign Legion has turned into a nightmare. It all starts with a severed hand. In it is a message from a Berber chief: Save the American woman he holds captive or she's next up for dismemberment. But it's a trick, leading to a terrorist attack. But who set the trap? Caught in a triangle of treachery between the French, Spanish and native Berbers, Reilly's only hope is to uncover the truth in a desert of deception. The bugles blow, the rifles crack, and the sandstorms swirl as the audio version of Hostage to Death carries you off to an exotic land of surprising romance and sudden terror.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/61046 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Six-Gun Caballero Author: L. Ron Hubbard Narrator: Shaun Duke, Jim Meskimen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 51 minutes Release date: April 29, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 2 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: He's handsome, charming, and totally outgunned. He's Michael Patrick Obañon. Obañon's lost his New Mexico spread — and he could lose his life if he's not careful. A ruthless band of renegades have seized his land, and he's determined to get it back. Part Irish, part Mexican, Obañon is as American as they come — crafty, confident, and cool under fire — and before he's done the world will know how the West will be won. Ride a trail of fast guns and quick wit to the western frontier as the audio version of Six-Gun Caballero brings American history to life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/116205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: La Queen of America: A Novel Author: Luis Alberto Urrea Narrator: Luis Alberto Urrea Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 28, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny,this novel from a Pulitzer Prize finalist tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age and finding her place in a new world. Beginning where Luis Alberto Urrea's bestselling The Hummingbird's Daughter left off, Queen of America finds young Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and "Saint of Cabora," with her father in 1892 Arizona. But, besieged by pilgrims in desperate need of her healing powers, and pursued by assassins, she has no choice but to flee the borderlands and embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of turn-of-the-century America. Teresita's passage will take her to New York, San Francisco, and St. Louis, where she will encounter European royalty, Cuban poets, beauty queens, anxious immigrants and grand tycoons -- and, among them, a man who will force Teresita to finally ask herself the ultimate question: is a saint allowed to fall in love?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/116203 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Come a Little Closer Series: #3 of The Tucker Family Series Author: Dorothy Garlock Narrator: Susan Boyce Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 23, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: With both the guilty and innocent alike in harm's way, Tyler and Christina must face all their fears . . . or never live to see the future. America's Heartland, 1946. World War II has ended, and everyone is pursuing peacetime's bright promise with fresh energy and hope. Newly-arrived in a small Wisconsin town, Christina Tucker now dares to chase her long-cherished dreams: put her wartime nursing skills to use and reconnect with country life. But helping a shell-shocked veteran recover soon tests her determination and disturbs town memories best left buried. She has no choice but to turn to her patient's seemingly-irresponsible brother, Tyler Sutter. A restless ex-soldier, Tyler can't believe this pretty ladylike nurse can heal his family. Yet as Christina begins to understand Tyler's own fears, the two grow close, then closer still-as a terrible secret sparks one man's violent, vengeful spree.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/115734 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Nanjing Requiem Author: Ha Jin Narrator: Angela Lin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 54 minutes Release date: November 18, 2011 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Author Ha Jin's celebrated works have claimed several top literary awards, including three Pushcart Prizes. In Nanjing Requiem, the Japanese are poised to invade Nanjing. The dean of Jinling Women's College, Minnie Vautrin mistakenly believes her American citizenship will protect the school. But Vautrin's life becomes a daily struggle as the school becomes a refugee camp-and the slaughter of refugees begins. 'Jin paints a convincing, harrowing portrait of heroism in the face of brutality.'-Publishers Weekly

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/116010 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Time In Between: A Novel Author: Maria Duenas Narrator: Zilah Mendoza Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 21 hours 45 minutes Release date: November 8, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 8 Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War II. Between youth and adulthood... At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress. At fourteen, she quietly begins her own apprenticeship. By her early twenties she has learned the ropes of the business and is engaged to a modest government clerk. But everything changes when two charismatic men burst unexpectedly into her neatly mapped-out life: an attractive salesman and the father she never knew. Between war and peace... With the Spanish Civil War brewing in Madrid, Sira leaves her mother and her fiancé, impetuously following her handsome lover to Morocco. However, she soon finds herself abandoned, penniless, and heartbroken in an exotic land. Among the odd collection of European expatriates trapped there by the worsening political situation back on the Continent, Sira reinvents herself by turning to the one skill that can save her: her gift for creating beautiful clothes. Between love and duty... As England, Germany, and the other great powers launch into the dire conflict of World War II, Sira is persuaded to return to Madrid, where she takes on a new identity to embark upon the most dangerous undertaking of her career. As the preeminent couturier for an eager clientele of Nazi officers’ wives, Sira becomes embroiled in the half-lit world of espionage and political conspiracy rife with love, intrigue, and betrayal. An outstanding success around the world, The Time in Between has sold more than two million copies and inspired the Spanish television series based on the book, dubbed by the media as the “Spanish Downton Abbey.” In the US it was a critical and commercial hit, and a New York Times bestseller in paperback. It is one of those rare, richly textured novels that enthrall down to the last page. María Dueñas reminds us how it feels to be swept away by a masterful storyteller.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102484 to listen full audiobooks. Title: I Am Half-Sick of Shadows: A Flavia de Luce Novel Series: #4 of Flavia de Luce Author: Alan Bradley Narrator: Jayne Entwistle Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: November 1, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: It’s Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce—an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving—is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces’ decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern. Amid a raging blizzard, the entire village of Bishop’s Lacey gathers at Buckshaw to watch Wyvern perform, yet nobody is prepared for the evening’s shocking conclusion: a body found, past midnight, strangled to death with a length of film. But who among the assembled guests would stage such a chilling scene? As the storm worsens and the list of suspects grows, Flavia must use every ounce of sly wit at her disposal to ferret out a killer hidden in plain sight.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102466 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Lady of the Rivers Series: #1 of The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels Author: Philippa Gregory Narrator: Bianca Amato Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 18, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.4 of Total 139 Ratings of Narrator: 4.63 of Total 38 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory brings to life the story of Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford, a woman of passion and of legend who navigated a treacherous path through the battle lines in the War of the Roses to bring her family unimaginable power. When the young and beautiful Jacquetta is married to the older Duke of Bedford, English regent of France, he introduces her to a mysterious world of learning and alchemy. Her only friend in the great household is the duke’s squire Richard Woodville, who is at her side when the duke’s death leaves her a wealthy young widow. The two become lovers and marry in secret, returning to England to serve at the court of the young King Henry VI, where Jacquetta becomes a close and loyal friend to his new queen. The Woodvilles soon achieve a place at the very heart of the Lancaster court, though Jacquetta has visions of the growing threat from the people of England and the danger of their royal York rivals. Jacquetta fights for her king and queen, as she sees an extraordinary and unexpected future for her daughter Elizabeth: a change of fortune, the white rose of York, and the throne of England…

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102359 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Stranger's Child Author: Alan Hollinghurst Narrator: James Daniel Wilson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 52 minutes Release date: October 11, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance—to his family’s modest home outside London for the weekend. George is enthralled by Cecil, and soon his sixteen-year-old sister, Daphne, is equally besotted by him and the stories he tells about Corley Court, the country estate he is heir to. But what Cecil writes in Daphne’s autograph album will change their and their families’ lives forever: a poem that, after Cecil is killed in the Great War and his reputation burnished, will become a touchstone for a generation, a work recited by every schoolchild in England. Over time, a tragic love story is spun, even as other secrets lie buried—until, decades later, an ambitious biographer threatens to unearth them. Rich with Hollinghurst’s signature gifts—haunting sensuality, delicious wit and exquisite lyricism—The Stranger’s Child is a tour de force: a masterly novel about the lingering power of desire, how the heart creates its own history, and how legends are made.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102358 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Empty Land Author: Louis L'Amour Narrator: Edward Herrmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 30 minutes Release date: October 11, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: For thousands of years the lonely canyon knew only wind and rain, wild animals, and an occasional native hunter. Then a trapper found a chunk of gold, and everything changed overnight. In six days a town called Confusion appeared . . . and on the seventh it could disappear, consumed by the flames of lawlessness and violence. On one side are those who understand only brute force. On the other are men who want law and order but are ready to use a noose to achieve their ends. Between them stand Matt Coburn and Dick Felton: one a hardened realist, the other an idealist trying to dig a fortune from the muddy hillside. Outnumbered and outgunned, Felton and Coburn can’t afford to be outmaneuvered. For as the two unlikely allies confront corruption, betrayal, and murder in an attempt to tame a town where the discovery of gold can mean either the fortune of a lifetime or a sentence of death, they realize that any move could be their last.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102357 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Showdown at Yellow Butte Author: Louis L'Amour Narrator: Jason Culp Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 39 minutes Release date: October 11, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.12 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Tom Kedrick earned his stripes during the Civil War, fought Apaches, and even soldiered overseas. But in the high desert country of New Mexico, the battle-hardened Kedrick is entangled in a different kind of war, fueled by greed and deception. Hired by Alton Burwick to drive a pack of renegades and outlaws off the government land recently set aside for an Indian reservation, Kedrick begins to notice that things are not as they seem. As his suspicions grow, he realizes that he may be fighting on the wrong side of a land swindle. Disillusioned and outraged, Kedrick must take action against the very people who hired him–or be forced to witness the bloody massacre of innocent men and women.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/102200 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Cat's Table Author: Michael Ondaatje Narrator: Michael Ondaatje Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: October 4, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.2 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the “cat’s table”—as far from the Captain’s Table as can be—with a ragtag group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury. But there are other diversions as well: one man talks with them about jazz and women, another opens the door to the world of literature. The narrator’s elusive, beautiful cousin Emily becomes his confidante, allowing him to see himself “with a distant eye” for the first time, and to feel the first stirring of desire. Another Cat’s Table denizen, the shadowy Miss Lasqueti, is perhaps more than what she seems. And very late every night, the boys spy on a shackled prisoner, his crime and his fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever.   As the narrative moves between the decks and holds of the ship and the boy’s adult years, it tells a spellbinding story—by turns poignant and electrifying—about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101052 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Last Man in Tower Author: Aravind Adiga Narrator: Sam Dastor Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 12 minutes Release date: September 20, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 1 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Searing. Explosive. Lyrical. Compassionate. Here is the astonishing new novel by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger, a book that took rage and anger at injustice and turned it into a thrilling murder story. Now, with the same fearlessness and insight, Aravind Adiga broadens his canvas to give us a riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, set in the booming city of Mumbai.   At the heart of this novel are two equally compelling men, poised for a showdown. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a building named the Shanghai, which promises to be one of the city’s most elite addresses. Larger-than-life Shah is a dangerous man to refuse. But he meets his match in a retired schoolteacher called Masterji. Shah offers Masterji and his neighbors—the residents of Vishram Society’s Tower A, a once respectable, now crumbling apartment building on whose site Shah’s luxury high-rise would be built—a generous buyout. They can’t believe their good fortune. Except, that is, for Masterji, who refuses to abandon the building he has long called home. As the demolition deadline looms, desires mount; neighbors become enemies, and acquaintances turn into conspirators who risk losing their humanity to score their payday.   Here is a richly told, suspense-fueled story of ordinary people pushed to their limits in a place that knows none: the new India as only Aravind Adiga could explore—and expose—it. Vivid, visceral, told with both humor and poignancy, Last Man in Tower is his most stunning work yet.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/101174 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Taker Author: Alma Katsu Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 49 minutes Release date: September 6, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.17 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 4 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: From the author of The Hunger—hailed by Stephen King as “deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down”—comes a hauntingly atmospheric tale filled with alchemy, lust, and betrayal. True love can last an eternity…but immortality comes at a price. On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting another quiet evening of frostbite and the occasional domestic dispute. But the minute Lanore McIlvrae—Lanny—enters his ER, she changes his life forever. A mysterious woman with plenty of dark secrets, Lanny is unlike anyone Luke has ever met. He is inexplicably drawn to her…despite the fact that she is a murder suspect with a police escort. As she begins to tell her story, Luke finds himself utterly captivated. Her impassioned account begins at the turn of the 19th century in the same small town of St. Andrew, Maine, back when it was a Puritan settlement. Consumed as a child by her love for the founder’s son, Jonathan, Lanny will do anything to be with him. But the price she pays is steep—an immortal bond that chains her to a terrible fate for all eternity. And now, two centuries later, the key to her healing and her salvation lies with Dr. Luke Findley. Part historical novel, part supernatural page-turner, The Taker is a “mesmerizing” (Booklist, starred review) story about the power of unrequited love not only to elevate and sustain, but also to blind and ultimately destroy.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/99022 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Buddha in the Attic Author: Julie Otsuka Narrator: Samantha Quan, Carrington MacDuffie Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 53 minutes Release date: August 23, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.71 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award Julie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine (“To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what must have happened at the outset for novels like Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird” —The New York Times) is a tour de force of economy and precision, a novel that tells the story of a group of young women brought over from Japan to San Francisco as ‘picture brides’ nearly a century ago. In eight incantatory sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces their extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to their backbreaking work picking fruit in the fields and scrubbing the floors of white women; to their struggles to master a new language and a new culture; to their experiences in childbirth, and then as mothers, raising children who will ultimately reject their heritage and their history; to the deracinating arrival of war. In language that has the force and the fury of poetry, Julie Otsuka has written a singularly spellbinding novel about the American dream.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/99011 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Becoming Marie Antoinette: A Novel Series: #1 of Marie Antoinette Author: Juliet Grey Narrator: Juliet Grey Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 28 minutes Release date: August 9, 2011 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen Marie Antoinette.   Why must it be me? I wondered. When I am so clearly inadequate to my destiny? Raised alongside her numerous brothers and sisters by the formidable empress of Austria, ten-year-old Maria Antonia knew that her idyllic existence would one day be sacrificed to her mother’s political ambitions. What she never anticipated was that the day in question would come so soon. Before she can journey from sunlit picnics with her sisters in Vienna to the glitter, glamour, and gossip of Versailles, Antonia must change everything about herself in order to be accepted as dauphine of France and the wife of the awkward teenage boy who will one day be Louis XVI. Yet nothing can prepare her for the ingenuity and influence it will take to become queen. Filled with smart history, treacherous rivalries, lavish clothes, and sparkling jewels, Becoming Marie Antoinette will utterly captivate fiction and history lovers alike. Praise for Becoming Marie Antoinette “A thoroughly enjoyable novel, brimming with delightful details. Grey writes eloquently and with charming humor, bringing ‘Toinette’ vividly to life as she is schooled and groomed—molded, quite literally—for a future as Queen of France, an innocent pawn in a deadly political game.”—Sandra Gulland, bestselling author of Mistress of the Sun and the Josephine Bonaparte trilogy “In her richly imagined novel, Juliet Grey meticulously recreates the sumptuous court of France's most tragic queen. Beautifully written, with attention paid to even the smallest detail, Becoming Marie Antoinette will leave readers wanting more!'—Michelle Moran, bestselling author of Madame Tussaud “A lively and sensitive portrait of a young princess in a hostile court, and one of the most sympathetic portrayals of the doomed queen.”—Lauren Willig, bestselling author of the Pink Carnation series   “Wonderfully delectable and lusciously rich, an elegant novel to truly savor. Juliet Grey’s Marie Antoinette is completely absorbing.”—Diane Haeger, author of The Queen’s Rival “[A] sympathetic take on the fascinating and doomed Marie Antoinette.”—Publishers Weekly

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/98518 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Cat's Eye Author: Margaret Atwood Narrator: Kimberly Farr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 32 minutes Release date: July 19, 2011 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.3 of Total 10 Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: A breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Disturbing, humorous, and compassionate, Cat’s Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman—but above all she must seek release form her haunting memories.