Audiobook review of Someone Else’s Shoes by Jojo Moyes

Jojo Moyes’ novel Someone Else’s Shoes (12.5 hours) begins with a lighthearted premise—the unintentional swap of two almost an identical luggage belonging to 2 very completely different ladies, Sam and Nisha—however quickly takes on weightier themes. These embody explorations of the ebb and circulate of each lengthy marriages and feminine friendships, in addition to concerns of psychological and bodily sickness and emotional abuse. 

With wonderful pacing and expression, British actor Daisy Ridley (whose deep alto voice will probably be acquainted from her function as Rey within the Star Wars saga) capably narrates each the humor and critical undertones in Moyes’ novel. Ridley pulls off Nisha’s American accent and brings to life a spread of voices for a well-rounded solid of secondary characters, together with Sam’s longtime greatest good friend and her clinically depressed husband, and each ladies’s skilled colleagues. 

Although the novel is lengthy, the story breezes by, propelled by the plot’s steadily mounting rigidity that’s relieved by moments of levity and even some slapstick components. Listeners will relish this uplifting story of transformation and second probabilities.