THE CAFE BY THE SEA

Narrator Sarah Barron transports the listener to the isolated Scottish isle of Muir, where this story takes place. As narrator, she employs a Scottish brogue that enhances the setting, which is so unique and vital to the story. She gives each character an individual voice and personality with brogues for the natives and appropriate accents for the non-natives. When paralegal Flora's job requires her to return to the home she left years ago, she's forced to come to terms with the community and life she left behind, the life she's living, and the life she really wants. Barron's voice for Colton, the American client she's there to assist, is especially well drawn, with his clueless enthusiasm seeping out of every line. Cafe recipes are an added bonus. N.E.M. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine [Published: NOVEMBER 2017]