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The Miranda Obsession

By: Jen Silverman
Narrated by: Rachel Brosnahan, Josh Groban, John Benjamin Hickey, Morgan Spector, Harry Lloyd, Milo Ventimiglia, full cast
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Summary

Emmy Award-winning actress Rachel Brosnahan brings to life a thrilling tale of intimacy and self-invention inspired by one of Hollywood’s most alluring stories of the 1980s. Josh Groban, John Benjamin Hickey, Harry Lloyd, Morgan Spector, and Milo Ventimiglia also star, playing some of the most powerful and famous men of the decade, who fall under Miranda’s enigmatic and captivating spell.

Imagine a 1980s world of sumptuous hotel rooms, restaurants, New York City penthouses, and the powerful men who move easily between these pinnacles of luxury. They are music producers, rock stars, writers, and restaurateurs. They are household names like Billy Joel, Art Garfunkel, Eric Clapton, and Sting. And yet, each man has an entire aspect to his life that he doesn’t talk about publicly—his depression, his rocky marriage, his feelings of shame and failure, his private loss of faith. And now: The phone rings. Imagine the woman who has each of these men at her beck and call. Late at night, on the other end of the line, she projects a confidence and glamour that immediately disarms them. They don’t know her, but she intimately understands the feelings they’ve never articulated to anybody else, and she muses—low and soft, never making them feel uncomfortable—on what it means that they feel this way, and why. When these men talk to Miranda, they never feel alone. And when she talks to them, she feels alive. Before long, they’re giving her insider tidbits—on new mergers, movies, albums, restaurants—and she’s collecting this information like the currency it is. Then she vanishes, sometimes for weeks at a time, while they wait on edge for her to call again.

Her name is Miranda Grosvenor, and the telephone persona that she has invented—a desirable, connected, compassionate, power player—is the person she lives to be. But who is Miranda, really? As the relationships between Miranda and the famous men she calls escalate, it becomes clear that Miranda may not be who she says she is and that her game is no longer a game at all.

Set in the glitzy world of 1980s Hollywood The Miranda Obsession stars Brosnahan as Miranda, along with an A-list cast. By turns enticing and voyeuristic, gripping and empathetic, this complex and nuanced character-driven drama examines the lengths to which we go to achieve intimacy and connection with each other, and the lengths some of us will go to feel something real.

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A fascinating real life story

I recommend listening without finding out anything about this first! The script is brilliant: compelling, naturalistic and poignant, and the performances bring the story to life immediately. Rachel Brosnahan could read out road signs and still sound interesting. Highly recommended!

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Excellent

Highly recommend, thought provoking, enjoyed immensely. Well written and good narration.
Looking forward to more like this.

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Strangely intriguing

This one really pulled me in and I listened straight through. A great accompaniment to cleaning!

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Gripping, charming, heartbreaking, I loved every second

It’s a game and then it’s a love story and then it’s nothing and everything. Really special, I’m so glad audible brought me this.

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ALL GOOD! NARRATOR EXCELLENT.

The story was extraordinary.
I loved listening to this in chunks, either driving or cooking.
I understand that in real-life the woman was never found?
But this ending was better!

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"The intoxication of it."

The cover was intriguing, the download was free on the Audible Plus programme, the length a little under three hours - so I went for it. I rarely read the resume spiel before reading a book preferring to just five in, and was almost immediately drawn into the apparently true story of a woman who, in the heady eighties, made unsolicited phone calls under the false name of Miranda to famous men in the arts and music scene.
Performed as a series of individual phone conversations with the intervening spaces filled with an upbeat and very appropriate musical score by Daniel Kruger, the role of Miranda is played by Rachel Brosnahan, her voice sultry and alluring with laughter bubbling in the background. If anything like that of the original caller, it is easy to hear why her targets were so receptive to her, counting themselves as her friend even though they had never met. There is little actual story development but the whole is so delicious and the performances excellent that I loved every minute.

This is a fun and captivating audio productio, plus it is free. What's not to like?
Enjoy.

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Catfish by another name

Excellent cast and loved the voices . The use of some very famous names makes me wonder if this really happened ? Intriguing..
More like this please .

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Different

Never judge book by the cover or voice to be exact, perception verse reality

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Brilliant performance

I can't forget that one. It's been a while since I've heard this audio for the first time and I'm coming back. Based on real story, brilliant performance

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Soooo good!!!

Really gripping and enjoyable; Brilliant performances by all! Loved it would definitely listen again.

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