Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend: A Novel
    Unavailable
    The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend: A Novel
    Unavailable
    The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend: A Novel
    Audiobook12 hours

    The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend: A Novel

    Written by Katarina Bivald

    Narrated by Fiona Hardingham and Lorelei King

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    A debut novel to charm all listeners, that shows beyond all doubt that it's books, along with love, that make the world go round.

    It all began with a correspondence between two quite different women: 28-year-old Sara from Haninge, Sweden, and 65-year-old Amy from the small town of Broken Wheel, Iowa. After years of exchanging books, letters and thoughts on the meaning of literature and life, Sara, mousy, disheveled, who has never been anywhere in her life--has really lived only for her work in a beloved bookshop, which has just closed its doors for the last time--bravely decides to accept her unknown friend's invitation to visit. But when she arrives, she finds her house empty, the funeral guests just heading home. . .

    Sara finds herself alone. And what choice do the inhabitants of Broken Wheel have but to take care of their bewildered tourist? And what choice does Sara have, faced with a town where nobody reads and her desire to honour her friend, but to set up the perfect bookshop with all the books she and Amy shared--from Yann Martel's Life of Pi to Iris Murdoch and Jo Nesbo, to Bridget Jones and Doug Coupland's All Families Are Psychotic to Little House on the Prairie? And then watch as the townsfolk are, one by one, transformed in unexpected ways. . .

    In the glorious tradition of 84 Charing Cross Road, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, Will Schwalbe's The End of Your Life Book Club, Jane Austen, and movies such as You've Got Mail and Love Actually, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend is a big-hearted, witty audiobook about books, friendship, love--and always being open to the unexpected.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 19, 2016
    ISBN9780147526069
    Unavailable
    The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend: A Novel
    Author

    Katarina Bivald

    Katarina Bivald is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller and #1 Indie Next Pick The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend. She lives outside of Stockholm, Sweden. She grew up working part-time in a bookshop.

    Related to The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

    Related audiobooks

    Contemporary Women's For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Letterbox

      Feb 1, 2024

      Dear Cricket, Congratulations on your fiftieth birthday! I am one of the lucky kids who was an original subscriber. And yes, I loved them so much that I saved them all. But the impact of reading and rereading those magazines was greater than just a s

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Words

      Dec 22, 2020

      The Words
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Letterbox

      Oct 1, 2023

      Dear Old Cricket, I am astounded that Cricket is fifty years old! When I first subscribed in 1976, I didn’t know that my favorite magazine was so young. Cricket has immeasurably impacted my life, and that is no exaggeration. I still remember my first

      7 min read

    • Article

      A Space for Bette Howland

      May 6, 2019

      A Space for Bette Howland
      7 min read

    • Article

      Women’s Prize For Fiction 2021 Longlist: The Inspiring Books To Read

      Mar 17, 2021

      Reading a truly remarkable novel can be a wonderful way to pass the time – transporting you far and wide, putting you in other people’s shoes and sparking emotion. If your reading list is in a fallow period, the announcement of the Women’s Prize for

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Letterbox

      Nov 1, 2023

      Hello, Cricket, Happy fiftieth anniversary! I love Cricket magazine. My favorite poem is “Fireworks!” by Diane ZuHone Shore (July/August 2023). I like how the stories are not too long, and this works for me. Have a nice vacation! Hannah Reff, age 11

      7 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Hermione Hoby

      Dec 7, 2021

      How many did I read? Not counting plays, not counting books started and not quite finished – forty five. Next year, I’ll fail better. The post A Year in Reading: Hermione Hoby appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Subscriber Spotlight

      Jun 4, 2020

      Subscriber Spotlight
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Letterbox

      May 1, 2023

      Happy 50th Anniversary, Everybody! This is my first time writing to the Letterbox, but about a year or so ago I was at my grandma’s house searching through her old books and I found two very old issues of Cricket magazine! One issue had a painting of

      7 min read

    • Article

      Jane Campbell

      Oct 12, 2022

      Jane Campbell
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Letterbox

      May 1, 2022

      My Dear Dreamers of Other Worlds, I felt the need to write a shout-out to the many splenderific people frequenting this delightful publication in the November/December 2021 issue. Cora, thank you for the fact about pangolins! Did you know that snails

      7 min read

    • Article

      Stories For The Soul

      Feb 1, 2020

      Stories For The Soul
      1 min read

    • Article

      In Books We Find Ourselves

      Jul 5, 2022

      I currently enjoy a miniature book club with five other women. My church placed nearly thirty of us into five different groups with the goal of getting to know one another better. Each group was tasked with trying to gather for different activities t

      6 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Shanthi Sekaran

      Dec 19, 2017

      You know when your friend writes a play or belts out a song or makes a working beehive out of marzipan and you’re like, “Oh, good God”? I read most of this novel sitting stick-straight, my mouth agape, quietly cursing. The post A Year in Reading: Sha

      5 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Aug 3, 2022

      by Elizabeth Noble (£14.99, HB, Penguin) When it comes to writing about family life, Elizabeth Noble is pitch-perfect, and her latest novel is no exception. In it we meet a group of friends who, having met at the nursery gate 20 years ago, have been

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Letterbox

      Nov 1, 2021

      Dear Everybuggy, I love your magazine so much! I first got into Cricket when my older sister’s old issues were lying about the house. I read them all and I begged my parents to let me have my own subscription. I finally got it! I am the youngest of f

      7 min read

    • Article

      Our literary HEROINES

      Aug 27, 2020

      Our literary HEROINES
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Laura Turner

      Dec 21, 2017

      The best book club I ever joined was one that reads exclusively from two categories: Bestselling books from several years back, and books set in the place we happen to be traveling. We meet whenever we want, read whatever we want, and eat whatever we

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Letterbox

      Jan 1, 2022

      Hi, Everybuggy, I have just received my very first Cricket magazine and I love it! My favorite book series are The Happy Hollisters mysteries, Encyclopedia Brown mysteries, A to Z Mysteries, and Gone-Away Lake. I really like mysteries! Ladybug and Pu

      7 min read

    Reviews for The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend

    4/5

    19 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      A book lovers delicious feast.. Such a lovely voice too.
    • 5/5
      What a wonderful book... heartwarming and a taste of honey of a story... thoroughly recommend... five stars from me