Sample · Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary

Listen to The Fault in Our Stars

The opening of The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, read by Marguerite. Try the other narrators below, then drop your own copy and hear the whole book.
Narrated by
Marguerite
Friendly, upbeat Australian female voice, ideal for lifestyle content, travel, and casual narration.
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death.

About this sample

Hazel’s voice is dry, young and self-aware. Marguerite’s upbeat Australian delivery keeps the opening about depression light on its feet, as John Green wrote it.
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