Help me find a non depressing audiobook please.

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I have started to really enjoy listening to audiobooks on my walk to work but I’m struggling to find new ones. The narrator is a really big issue for me. If I don’t like the voice I can’t buy the book.
I love listening to Stephen Fry reading the Harry Potter’s as an example.

I have recently gone back to the Shardlake series and have enjoyed them all over again and at the moment am sort of enjoying The Wrong Sister but these books are quite relentlessly miserable. Nothing good ever happens to the main characters. I am quite low at the moment and need something a little less depressing I think.

Any ideas?

You can also find some books and Radio 4 type series to hear free on YouTube.

I've just remembered another - Cold Comfort Farm with Miriam Margolyes is wonderful!

The libby app is the best thing I've ever installed. You can borrow audiobooks online through your local library. I didn't even go to the library to pick up my library card I just joined and asked them to email me my card number. I actually joined another couple of libraries to get more options.

For book recommendations 'The Invisible Life of Addie la Rue' by V.E. Schwab is stunning.

Some of my Borrowbox favourites:
Kate Binchy reading her aunt Maeve Binchy. She has the most beautiful reading style.

Fenella Woolgar reading Kate Atkinson's Life After Life.

I enjoyed The Dig - read by several readers.

Kate Atkinson's Shrines of Gaiety read by Jason Watkins.

The Chamomile Lawn read by Carol Boyd.

Cathy Rentzenbrink reading her own book, Dear Reader

The Smallest Man read by Alex Wingfield.

Yours, Cheerfully read by Anna Popplewell.

Hattie Morahan and Samantha Bond read beautifully.

Just to second the recommendation for Kate Atkinson's Life After Life. I'm listening to it now and it's one of the best audio books I've ever had the pleasure to listen to.

I found "I capture the castle" free on audible, read by Jenny agutter. Lovely book, and well read

My guilty pleasure is a Heidi Swain audible. Very sweet stories that I find so comforting, I started one stressful Christmas and now I always listen to the new Xmas release as things get fraught. She has a summer release too and I start while holiday packing. Her audible books are the loveliest vanilla/camomile respite from life.

I’m hooked on Anthony Horowitz’s Magpie Murders and Hawthorne series. My DS recommended them to me and I am completely engrossed.

Yes to The Thursday Murder Club series (although I think the first 2 were narrated by somone else and she was better!)

And also yes to Project Hail Mary and Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods

I also love the Hawthorne series on audiobook but for some reason I am struggling with the latest book. Just isn't really gripping me from the start and I'm finding myself drifting off.

I love Penelope Keith reading the Agatha Raisin series.

I can also recommend the Thursday Murder Club series. Just discovered that Nicola Walker is the narrator for Osman's new book 'We Solve Murders'. Looking forward to reading/listening to this one.

The Stranger Times series, so funny!
And some of the Fredrik Backman books are really heartwarming, eg A Man Called Ove and Britt-Mari Was Here.
Anything by Neil Gaiman.
Anthony Horowitz crime novels

Forgot to say Lessons in Chemistry.
Project Hail Mary is fab!

There are some PG Wodehouse audio books on YouTube at the moment on the Idioms? my cup of tea channel. No adverts.