As tremulous as any Gothic heroine, Mariana goes toe-to-toe with assorted scornful and seductive male authority figures while trying to get to the truth. There are assignations in graveyards and notorious parties and scads of classical references. The students-the eponymous maidens-cluster around a Byronic male classics professor, and our heroine, Mariana, worries that her beloved niece might also have come under his spell. This frankly preposterous tale of a widowed psychotherapist investigating a series of suspicious deaths among women students at Cambridge University is great, silly fun.

Michaelides writes high-end thrillers set among the cultured elite and replete with women smothered by convention and domineering men. You can start a 30-day trial of Audible Plus to get your first book free and unlimited listening to the Plus Catalog.The Maidens by Alex Michaelides, performed by Louise Brealey and Kobna Holdbrick-Smith

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You might be able to find some of these audiobooks for free via the Libby app, which you can access through your library. The best option is to choose books with no pressure to follow and pay attention to, though.īased on my criteria for the perfect audiobooks to fall asleep to, here are some of the best bedtime audiobooks for adults that I’ve enjoyed listening to before bed. How to listen to audiobooks before you sleep? With audiobook apps like Audible and Libby, you can use the sleep timer to pause after a certain amount of minutes, or use the bookmark function to mark where you get to. This is one of the reasons why listening to books you already know well is a great idea for bedtime. And secondly, you don’t want to think too hard (no War and Peace). One, the audiobook needs to be soothing and peaceful (no Swedish thrillers). I think there are two main qualities of a good audiobook to listen to before bed. Often I have a dedicated audiobook on the go that’s just for bedtime reading something relaxing and peaceful that I can turn to when I’m struggling to unwind and fall asleep. When you buy through these links, I may earn a commission.Īlthough I love unwinding at the end of the day with a paperback until my eyes become too sleepy to focus on the lines, there’s a very special place in my heart for audiobooks. A quick note that some of my posts contain affiliate links.

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