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  • Published: 5 July 2022
  • ISBN: 9780143776994
  • Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 13 hr 9 min
  • Narrator: Meg Bignell

The Angry Women's Choir





By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about a remarkable group of women who discover they are all capable of incredible things – if they’re strong enough, and angry enough, to take up the cause.


This audiobook includes original music by Meg Bignell and Jude Elliot.
Once in a while, everyone needs to be heard.

Freycinet Barnes has built herself the perfect existence. With beautiful children, a successful husband and a well-ordered schedule, it’s a life so full she simply doesn’t fit.

When she steps outside her calendar and is accidentally thrown into the generous bosom of the West Moonah Women’s Choir, she finds music, laughter, friendship and a humming wellspring of rage. With the ready acceptance of the colourful choristers, Frey learns that voices can move mountains, fury can be kind and life can do with a bit of ruining.

Together, Frey and the choir sing their anger, they breathe it in and stitch it up, belt it out and spin it into a fierce, driving beat that will kick the system square in the balls, and possibly demolish them all.

  • Published: 5 July 2022
  • ISBN: 9780143776994
  • Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 13 hr 9 min
  • Narrator: Meg Bignell

About the author

Meg Bignell

Meg Bignell was a nurse and a weather presenter on the telly before she surrendered to
a persistent desire to write. She is the author of four novels and one non-fiction book. Her third novel, The Angry Women’s Choir, won the People’s Choice Award for fiction at the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards. She has written and performed in short films, cabaret shows and a musical. She lives on the east coast of Tasmania with her husband, three children, one dog and about a thousand cows.

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