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The Triumph of Katie Byrne

by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Kate Reading
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Ten years later, Katie, a struggling actress in New York, is still haunted by the tragedy.  Her friend Carly remains in a coma, and Katie desperately wants to achieve success and stardom not only for herself but also for her two old friends.  Her big chance comes when she is discovered and wins a major role in a Broadway play.  A promising love affair adds to the excitement of working in the theater; but Katie must face the demons of the past before she can embrace the possibilities of the future.
In sixteen previous bestselling novels, Barbara Taylor Bradford has enthralled millions of readers with pade-turning plots and characters that linger in the heart and mind long after the book is closed.  The Triumph of Katie Byrne will captivate her devoted fans and win her a whole new audience.

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    February 12, 2008

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415953723
      • File size: 264337 KB
      • Duration: 09:10:42

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Seventeen-year-old aspiring actresses Katie Byrne and her two girlfriends are sure that it will be a quick step from their Connecticut barn-theater to Broadway. But when her girlfriends fall victim to an unknown rapist-murderer, the stage suddenly loses its glow. Ten years later, fame beckons again. Will the tragic past loose its stranglehold and allow her to use her thespian talent? Kate Reading believably peoples the story with Irish, British, and Americans of all ages and both genders. With the addition of her lilts and twangs, the sometimes predictable dialogue of Bradford's cast jumps off the page--alive with fresh drama for the listener. E.V. (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 26, 2001

      Long celebrated as a bestselling chronicler of women's lives, Bradford adds a mystery twist to her latest tale of romantic suspense. At 17, Katie Byrne and her lifelong best friends, Denise and Carly, share a passion to act on Broadway and plan to move from their mid-Connecticut town to New York after high school graduation. One day, Katie's early departure from their daily after-school acting rehearsals in Denise's uncle's barn saves her from a brutal attack on the other girls. With Denise dead and Carly in a coma, Katie fears she'll be the next victim, and for a time, acting loses its appeal. Ten years later, the murderer is yet to be found, Carly remains in a coma and Katie has picked up the pieces of her life and moved to London, studying in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. When she's offered the part of Emily Brontë in a play bound for Broadway, she realizes it's the chance of a lifetime. But she's apprehensive about returning to face the ghosts of her past and hesitates to fulfill her childhood dream without her best friends to share it. Bradford sets a quick pace by introducing tough police detective Mac MacDonald, aka Mac the Knife, and by showing how Katie and her family dealing with the tragedy. The second half falls off, however, reverting mainly to inner dialogues and Katie's doubts about her ability to perform on stage. A too convenient, totally unmotivated solution to the murder caps the curiously thin narrative, in which Bradford never fully renders her characters. This is a fast but shallow read, perhaps satisfying to Bradford's fans but not a significant milestone in her career.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Kate Burton handles each well-drafted character with precision and ease as she flows from Katie's New York Theater-trained voice, to her mother's Irish accent, to detective Mac the Knife's grim tones. The detective's job is to discover who murdered one best friend and hospitalized another. Burton excels when she characterizes a psychic with a ghostly, dreamy quality. Though Burton gives an exceptionally well-done narration, Bradford's mysterious beginning turns into a drama and love story that may disappoint mystery fans. G.D.W. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      Katie Byrne's two best friends are brutally attacked, and one of them is killed. The tragedy stalls Katie's career and emotional development, although she's determined to give up on neither. Barbara Rosenblat sounds like at least a dozen different people as she breezes through the Irish, Yorkshire, New York, and Connecticut vocalizations of the book's characters. Her narrative passages are delivered in flawless midwestern U.S., and her timing throughout retains its customary perfection, drawing the listener in despite the predictability of the plot. No matter who the writer may be or what the story involves, a Rosenblat performance brings out all the good points, and adds a few more for good measure. R.P.L. (c) AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine

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