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Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults

By: Various
Narrated by: Joan Walker, Jonathan Keeble
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Publisher's summary

Picked for World Book Night 2020.

The perfect listen to calm your mind in times of stress.

As recommended by RED magazine.

Introduced by Lucy Mangan.

Tales to soothe tired souls. A night time companion for frazzled adults, including calming stories and poems for a good night's sleep.

This cheering book of best loved short tales, extracts and poems will calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep.

A good night's sleep is essential for our well being and our health, but in our busy lives sleep is often poor and overlooked. Now is the time to stop a while and find consolation and wonder in other worlds where all is well and sleep just a page or two away.

From classic stories by Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassant and Katherine Mansfield, to friendly tales of our childhoods, to poetry that reminds us of the simple joys of life, this lovingly curated book will soothe a tired mind and gently carry you to the peaceful land of sleep.

So switch off, snuggle down and allow yourself to escape into new worlds and old; magical, mysterious and tender realms that will accompany you to your own sweet dreams.

©2018 Hodder & Stoughton Limited (P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

Critic reviews

"Hurrah for a book that draws us away from the cold blue light of the smart phone and into the soothing glow of poems, short stories and extracts." (The Simple Things magazine)

"Dreamy." (Stylist)

"Calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep...the most beautiful book that will, without a doubt, put you in the mood for some zzzzzs." (The Sun)

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Not at all sleep inducing

This is more a dramatic reading than it is soothing storytelling. The narrators’ voice changes for new characters and their expressive exclamations with shouts at varying volumes do not make for relaxing listening at all. I found it far more jarring than relaxing.

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Not soothing

Not soothing at all way to much for a bed time book no thank you

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not for stressed out adults

it sucks to listen to something that doesnt actually help me distress. im stressed

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boring

boring
it was not my type of book. not a very good read. pass on this

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Skip the Intro

This is a good collection of classic stories but the introduction is terrible. It has the opportunity to be good as it starts off talking about how peacefully children sleep but then it talks about all the reasons you can't sleep, which only serves to remind you of why you can't sleep. Skip it and head to the stories themselves and you'll be out before you can say Wikem, Blinkem and Nod.

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Love it

This is a fun little audiobook to just forget and relax when the time comes to go to bed. Makes me smile and just drift off to sleep. One of my favorites so far!

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not the bedtime stories I was expecting.

struggled to get thru chapter 1. the British accent kind of gets in the way.

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Helps me to unwind.

Need to have more stories. Would love to have another book or suggestion of the same type I could download.

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Jarring

These were not recorded with bedtime in mind. The volume and tone I consistency was jarring, and not soothing.

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Thought this was meant to help de-stress stressed out adults before bed…

This book actually ratcheted up my cortisol levels before bed- every story was about something stressful. Kept me up at night.

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