Three in a Bed

By: Monica Belle

Narrated by: Jilian Powers

Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins

Publisher's summary

Small, pretty, pleasant, and a bit of a geek, Paige is the perfect employee for Araminta Henderson, the feisty owner of the Lifelong Dating Agency. She’s certainly not the sort of person to stand up to her domineering boss and even less likely to go out on dates with sexually demanding strangers. One day, however, she finds herself in a position where she has very little choice but to acquiesce in the intimate and often peculiar requests of the Lifelong Dating Agency’s clients; leading to Mrs. Henderson having to show her who’s the boss.

Monica Belle is an Oxbridge graduate and the author of several successful Black Lace novels, including Black Lipstick Kisses, Bound In Blue, Noble Vices, Office Perks, Pagan Heat, The Boss, The Choice, To Seek a Master, Valentina's Rules, Wild By Nature and Wild In The Country.

©2013 Monica Belle (P)2013 Audible Ltd

Critic reviews

“Alright, come on, admit it - who hasn’t fantasised about a three in a bed romp at some time or another. And if you’ve ever been lucky enough to have taken part and enjoyed it, so much the better. But for those who have thought about it but never taken the plunge this superb full length audiobook from one of Xcite’s leading stable of excellent writers provides the opportunity to do so vicariously through the form of pretty Paige who finds herself at the whims of her employer, the domineering Araminta, owner of the Lifelong Dating Agency, and some of her sexually demanding clients. Paige soon finds herself acquiescing to some very peculiar requests!” (Jade Magazine)

A Belle well tolled

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

more rudeness

What was most disappointing about Monica Belle’s story?

The names

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Jilian Powers?

Nancy Mitford

What character would you cut from Three in a Bed?

none

Any additional comments?

On occasion, UK TV puts out the film 'Mary Poppins'. Fresh as Lenin in his tomb, the showing may still provide a frisson of pleasure to Londoners of a certain age, as they once more have the opportunity to experience the dire misery of Dick Van Dyke's ludicrous attempts at a cockney accent. Down the entertaining years, on this or that side of the Atlantic, each side has put up a champion to wrestle with the other way to pronounce the English language (I make no reference to the Antipodes; even I can spot a lost cause). For example, I am told by American friends that Mr. H. Laurie's attempts, in a major TV role, are most worthy - but no cigar. For my own part, Renee Zellweger, in the first of the 'B. Jones' films is spot on, and there are of course, many more instances of success and failure. Until now I have only been aware of such elocutional jousting within mainstream entertainment, but here, it is in "Teasing the Devil" and "Three in a Bed" two pretty examples of obscene, back-alley tosh. We have an awfulness in the execution of 'the other' accent - in this case an American(?) 'doing' an English accent - which fully grants Ms. Jilian Powers the right to carry the torch first lit by Mr. Van Dyke and to carry it high. Even before telling the stories (I use the term loosely) she betrays the fun to come when claiming the them to be "narra-ted" as opposed to "na-RATE-ted" One of the delights of Ms. Monika Belle's pornography is that it is to be told with a home counties' accent from an erstwhile pupil of Cheltenham Ladies college. Instead, where there should have been lasciviousness, Ms. Powers' hollowed out 'English' vowels stapled across an, oh, so American delivery , has managed to create bathos. Alas, for poor Ms. Belle, all that effort at intellectual endeavour - treated with the same, indifference by Audible.com as that company has, in this instance, shown to its customers. As to the actual content...When the main character is an English girl named 'Paige'...well, I should have been warned ' im Voraus' - as might have been said by that other cockney - Karl Marx.