Buy the book at BOL Hear an extract You will need RealPlayer to listen to this clip. The Guardian Colgan has an instantly attractive, smiling voice but she should never have been allowed to read her own book.
Fiction demands professional performance.
To top it all, she tells us within two minutes that her narrator chracter is a Surrey girl who spent her childhood in Woking. Colgan speaks broad Ayrshire. Orion could surely have shelled out for an actor for a bestseller.