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In hospital, please recommend me a good, light hearted audiobook.

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Snozzlemaid · 01/04/2025 19:07

I’m currently recovering in hospital following a ruptured brain aneurysm and all though I’m on a small ward with 3 others, two of them are annoying the fuck out of me.
Could you please recommend a good audiobook that may even make me laugh a little, so I can plug in my noise cancelling earplugs and shut the noise out.
And if I can get it from Borrowbox even better.

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permitholdersonly · 01/04/2025 19:20

All the Richard Osman Thursday murder club books are on borrowbox. Read brilliantly by Leslie Manville and Fiona Shaw. Get well soon!

Ineffable23 · 01/04/2025 19:20

SBHon · 01/04/2025 19:16

Unruly by David Mitchell isn’t short but breaks up easily into chunks, and made me chuckle as well as keep my interest.

This is great. Would definitely agree with this.

legsekeven · 01/04/2025 19:18

Thursday murder club. Great story and light hearted

Rictasmorticia · 01/04/2025 19:18

Miss.Buncles Book

Notgoodatpoetrybutgreatatlit · 01/04/2025 19:17

Diary of a Nobody read by Martin Jarvis.
And not a book but I loved the Round the Horne radio shows from believe it or not the 1960s. Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick as Julian and Sandy two gay men who run a different enterprise each week. I laugh out loud on the tube at them.
That might be a bit of a niche taste. They use polari which is showmans slang but also used by gay men when it was still illegal to be gay in this very country. But all the professionals on Round the Horne are just so skillful.

SBHon · 01/04/2025 19:16

Unruly by David Mitchell isn’t short but breaks up easily into chunks, and made me chuckle as well as keep my interest.

mysecretshame · 01/04/2025 19:15

I always recommend David Sedaris to anyone who wants a laugh. He's a bit dark though but short pieces of nonfiction so easy to take breaks.
He's so great on audio.

I hope you recover well.

AnnaQuayInTheUk · 01/04/2025 19:11

I'm so sorry you're ill and hope you make a quick recovery.

I loved "My Sister The Serial Killer" - can't remember who it's by but I listened to it as an audio book and laughed out loud.

YourChirpyFatball · 01/04/2025 19:09

The Housekeeper Natalie Barreli
The Perfect Girlfriend Karen Hamilton
I really enjoyed both, quite mad but v funny too.