Audiobooks narrated by Sharon Rooney

Brought to you by Penguin. I feel a thought forming in my head like a fart brewing in my stomach. And my thought fart is... I'm gonna start a YouTube channel! We have a plan. Hopefully nothing will randomly decide to mess with that plan like, oh I dunno, MY COMPLETE BUM HOLE OF A DAD COMING BACK AND FILLING OUR LIVES WITH CHAOS. You know Haylah Swinton - she's big, bold and funnier than a cat in a onesie playing the bagpipes. She's been busy proving she's as a kick-butt comedian, she's got herself a fab boyfriend called Dylan, the best girl crew in the world totally have her back, her little brother isn't driving her totally nuts, and did she mention she has a boyfriend called Dylan? Yes, THAT Dylan. But this proving-she's-funny thing is kind of tough sometimes. And come to think of it, Dylan isn't acting particularly boyfriendly at the moment. Plus her pathetic excuse for a dad has decided to turn up and make everything confusing. As if real life wasn't complicated enough, when Haylah sets up her own comedy YouTube channel, she finds out that online life can be a whole other can of trolls... Prepare to snort, guffaw (and cringe) your way through the second hilarious story about pretty funny Haylah Swinton! © Rebecca Elliott 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Rebecca Elliott (Author), Sharon Rooney (Narrator)

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Bad Salsa: The Complete Series 1-3: A BBC Radio full-cast comedy drama

All ten episodes of the BBC radio comedy about three women who embrace the world of salsa while adjusting to life after cancer After their treatment for ovarian and breast cancer, Chippy is mad, Jill is sad and Terri is definitely dangerous to know! Seeking to regain their zest for life and love, they throw themselves into dance classes at Bad Salsa, the club where everyone knows your name but no-one knows your prognosis. As they try to deal with the many obstacles on the road back to normality - or at least, a 'new normal' - the three friends must get to grips with their own particular aftershocks, and face their own fears. Their brush with mortality has given them all a fresh perspective, and changed their outlook, desires and expectations. So when it comes to the challenges of everyday life - boring marriages, troublesome children, difficult workmates and infuriating parents - will they try and preserve the pre-cancer status quo, or, in Terri's words, say 'sod it all' and 'go for it'? Created by comedy writer/performer Kay Stonham, this groundbreaking comedy about salsa, survival and staying strongstars Natasha Little as Jill, Camille Coduri as Terri and Sharon Rooney and Jessie Cave as Chippy. Production credits Written by Kay Stonham Produced by Alison Vernon-Smith (Series 1 and 2) and Katie Tyrell (Series 3) A BBC Studios production First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 7-28 July 2014 (Series 1), 13 January-3 February 2016 (Series 2), 23-30 August 2017 (Series 3) Cast Terri - Camille Coduri Chippy - Sharon Rooney/Jessie Cave Jill - Natasha Little Marco - Doc Brown/Derek Elroy Gordon - Andrew Obeney Colin - David Cann/Chris Pavlo/Martin Trenaman Georgie - Emily Chase Tim - Matt Houlihan Sara - Antonia Reid Chippy's Mum/Corinne - Kay Stonham Elaine/Consultant 2 - Ayesha Antoine Georgie - Emily Chase Joel - Joe Johnsey Marnie/Dancer - Jessica Turner Consultant 1 - Chris Pavlo Barman - Leo Wan Ann - Kerry Gooderson Assistant - Philip Fox Shop assistant/Celebrant - Kerry Gooderson

Kay Stonham (Author), Camille Coduri, Full Cast, Jessie Cave, Natasha Little, Sharon Rooney (Narrator)

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Pretty Funny

Brought to you by Penguin. Does anyone ever really want to 'fall' in love? Knowing me I'll just trip over it and graze my knee on the gravel of humiliation. Haylah Swinton is fairly confident she's brilliant at being a girl. She's an ace best friend, a loving daughter, and an INCREDIBLY patient sister to her four-year-old total nutter of a brother, Noah. But she has a secret. She wants to be a stand-up comedian, but she's pretty sure girls like her - big girls, girls who don't get all the boys, girls who a lot of people don't see - don't belong on stage. That hasn't stopped her dreaming though, and when the seemingly perfect opportunity to write routines for older, cooler, impossibly funny Leo arises... well, what's a girl to do? But is Leo quite an interested in helping Haylah as he says he is? Will Haylah ever find the courage to step into the spotlight herself? And when oh when will people stop telling her she's 'funny for a girl'?! © Rebecca Elliot 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Rebecca Elliott (Author), Sharon Rooney (Narrator)

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Sal

This is a story of something like survival. Sal planned it for almost a year before they ran. She nicked an Ordnance Survey map from the school library. She bought a compass, a Bear Grylls knife, waterproofs and a first aid kit from Amazon using credit cards she'd robbed. She read the SAS Survival Handbook and watched loads of YouTube videos. And now Sal knows a lot of stuff. Like how to build a shelter and start a fire. How to estimate distances, snare rabbits and shoot an airgun. And how to protect her sister, Peppa. Because Peppa is ten, which is how old Sal was when Robert started on her. Told in Sal's distinctive voice, and filled with the silent, dizzying beauty of rural Scotland, Sal is a disturbing, uplifting story of survival, of the kindness of strangers, and the irrepressible power of sisterly love; a love that can lead us to do extraordinary and unimaginable things.

Mick Kitson (Author), Sharon Rooney (Narrator)

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