Golden Voice narrator Julia Whelan joins AudioFile’s Michele Cobb to tell listeners about narrating Kristin Hannah’s memorable historical fiction audiobook, The Women, one of our picks for Best Fiction of 2024. It’s an emotional story about Vietnam War combat nurses, and Julia details how she prepared for performing this intense listen. Julia has narrated several of Hannah’s audiobooks, and she explains what she likes about getting to narrate multiple works by the same author, and what’s stayed with her about this audiobook.

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Read AudioFile’s review of The Women, published by Macmillan Audio.

AudioFile’s 2024 Best Fiction Audiobooks are:

The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez, read by Alma Cuervo

Come and Get It by Kiley Reid, read by Nicole Lewis

Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty, read by Caroline Lee, Geraldine Hakewill

James by Percival Everett, read by Dominic Hoffman

The Limits by Nell Freudenberger, read by Rebecca Lowman

The Women by Kristin Hannah, read by Julia Whelan, Kristin Hannah

Find the full list of 2024 Best Audiobooks on our website.

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