One Plus One
by Jojo Moyes
Narrated by Elizabeth Bower, Ben Elliot, Nicola Stanton, Steven France
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Four narrators sharing one story sounds like a gimmick until it makes the whole messy, warm thing feel like you're actually in the car with this family.
- Great if you want: class-divide romance wrapped in chaotic family warmth
- Listening experience: cozy and funny with emotional gut-punches that sneak up on you
- Narration: ensemble cast gives each character a genuinely distinct personality
- Skip if: you prefer slow-burn romance without comic road-trip energy
About This Audiobook
Jess is a single mother cleaning houses and working multiple jobs, her stepson bullied, her math-prodigy daughter needing an expensive competition trip she cannot afford, when a tech millionaire in a moral crisis offers to drive them all to Scotland. Ed Nicholson is, objectively, not someone she should trust — but the combination of a broken-down car, a storm, and several days in unexpected proximity begins to complicate both of their clearly-held views of themselves and each other. Jojo Moyes at her most structurally efficient.
Elizabeth Bower, Ben Elliot, Nicola Stanton, and Steven France narrate the ensemble perspectives of a road-trip romance that finds its comedy in the specific ways four people stuck together in a small space manage to misunderstand each other. The British class dynamics and the Scotland setting add texture that the audio format renders with particular vividness. Goodreads Choice Award winner for Fiction. At just over 12 hours, One Plus One is Moyes in full command of her audience's emotions.