I read this book so long ago. I loved it.
Jackie Collins was the author that hooked me. She got me wanting more and more books to occupy my teenage brain.

I didn’t like or dislike the audio version. Ideal if you drive for long hours.

I did not get around to reading this book prior to it’s publication date and it has since been archived therefore I cannot leave a review at this time.

I enjoyed listening to this audio book.
This was pretty addictive and very enjoyable. I liked the mix of characters and the ensuing drama!

Gloriously Naughty…
Gloriously naughty and enjoyable. An entertaining listen, well narrated and nuanced. Evocative of both time and place and truly a guilty pleasure.

Brilliantly read by India Thain, the authors granddaughter, I could listen to this audio version over and over again. Times may have changed since this book was first published, but it’s just as relevant today as it was then, just as much fun, and just as thrilling!

I was unable to download this book to the netgalley shelf app so unable to review. The app works now however didnt at the start.

It's been many years since I read a Jackie Collins novel and "The World Is Full Of Divorced Women" didn't disappoint. It's gloriously trashy and bursting at the seams with sex. Collins' work is partly hilarious, wholly satisfying and very evocative of time and place. The audiobook is brilliantly narrated by India Thain.

I had read a couple of Jackie Collins books many years ago so was excited to listen to this audiobook.

However despite the excellent narration the book didn't hold my attention. I remember Previous Jackie Collins books for the sex scenes, but it seems the world has moved on and the sex seemed fairly tame compared to books written nowadays.

I do love a Jackie Collins!
Always so much going on and some brilliant larger than life characters.
Pure escapism at it’s very best!

This was very well narrated with a fabulous array of voices to distinguish the characters.
The 2 stories, which are utterly scandalous with a huge amount of promiscuity offer an insight into how the rich and famous/ wannabe famous live.
Although interesting storylines in principal, I found the characters hard to bond with due to their desperate and frustrating actions. Nonethless, it was an interesting perspective on relationships and how they can become bland or are seen as throwaway, when ultimately it is the one thing most of them seem to crave.

it's a long time since last I read a Jackie Collins book and was happy to listen to this audiobook.
i consider Jackie Collins' books a sort of guilty pleasure: you don't expect anything to complex but you will surely get a highly entertaining story.
Recommended.
I liked the narrator and it was well told.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

The world is full of divorced woman by Jackie Collins.
I loved listening to this audiobook. I loved the story and most of the characters were great. I loved the narrator India Thain. She had each character down perfectly. Brilliant. 5*.

I’ve never read a Jackie Collins before so I thought I’d give this a go.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t for me at all. The characters are all so vapid and stereotypical and I didn’t like any of them. The one called Muffin really annoyed me, she was so immature and her name annoyed me too.

At the time, I imagine all the sex references would have been quite scandalous but I just found it tiresome and boring.

The plot is non existent and it just goes round in circles with everyone trying to one up each other. Nothing much happens and I found it all so boring. It’s not a short book either and everything felt dragged out.

I listened to the audiobook version of this and the narrator was really good. Sadly, I didn’t enjoy the story at all.

Thanks to NetGalley and Simon and Schuster Audio UK for allowing me to listen to the audiobook in exchange for a review.

My first Jackie Collins book.. this book was ok.... if it wasn’t so well narrated I would have put it down and given up.. there didn’t seem to be a plot as such and I didn’t engage with the characters. If you are after an easy listen then this is fir you but I like a plot and an ending to tie up the book.

2 stars are for the narration not the story...

A fun and entertaining audio book with a great story by Jackie Collins. The narrator captured the glamorous style perfectly!

Cleo James is offered a job to interview 5 of the most famous bachelors in movies after finding out that he husband has been cheating on her. Now that she’s free to do as she pleases, she doesn’t need marriage but does want to have some fun. Meanwhile muffin, an up and coming nude model wants nothing more than to get married. However her boyfriend sees her as a cash cow and wants to keep things as they are. But she knows what she wants and just how to get it.

This book didn’t really grab me and I didn’t feel anything towards any of the characters. Lots of lies, cheating, marriage and of course as the title suggests divorce. It was irritating how the female characters gave into the male characters too often. Plus the sex scenes were boring and left me wanting more.

The narration by Jackie Collins granddaughter India Thain was good, good voices for all the different characters and there were many.

Thank you to Simon & Schuster Audio UK for the free copy of this audio book.

⭐️⭐️

Ok I love Jackie Collins and this audio did not disappoint. Narrated by Jackie’s Granddaughter this was a saucy romp through the love life’s of the rich and famous full of the usually tongue and cheek and filth that we all love from Jackie and it certainly made my husband blush in parts when he walked into the room. I also loved the interview with the narrator as well to give us a glimpse into the amazing author who so many of us love.

As I've never read any of Jackie Collins books before, I felt now was the time. But I went for the audiobook.
What an ear opener for a first timer to the world of Ms Collins. I popped on my eye mask and vanished into her world.
This isn't the genre I would normally listen to but I carried on, I listened to the end.
Unfortunately this book wasn't for me, I didn't like the characters or storyline.

I haven't read a Jackie Collins since I was a teenager so I'm delighted to find this as outrageous, funny and oddly empowering as I remember, The story is written with great energy and Collins likes her main female characters, and is quite clear-eyed about the way they are mistreated or exploited by men. At the same time, she can't help but show those men up with a kind of humorous bitchiness that makes this so much fun to read. The settings are escapist, the sex is an absolute bonkfest, and we can't help rooting for her female leads.

The audiobook is read well with the narrator 'doing' voices without over-acting them. The pacing is just right, the words clear with just the right touch of irony. This is perfect switch-off listening, ideal while travelling/commuting - light-hearted and unchallenging while being brilliantly compulsive.

Thank you Netgalley and Simon and Schuster for the fabulous audiobook version of this novel.

When Cleo James finds out in the most graphic way possible her husband Mike is cheating on her she wastes no time with recriminations and moves on. She's already set up with a series of interviews with 5 of the most famous and eligible men in movies. And now she's free she can have some fun for a change. She doesn't need or want marriage. Meanwhile the hottest nude model of the moment Muffin wants marriage desperately but her boyfriend/manager Jon would rather carry on as they are. He and everyone else thinks she's stupid but Muffin knows what she wants and will and can do what she has to. Shes determined to get everything she wants...

So firstly let's remember this was released in 1975, the very year I was born and it was a very different world. Sexism was prevalent in ways we cannot comprehend now, despite it still going strong today if in a more low key way. Jackie Collins railed against this, in life and print but includes a lot of the suspect behaviour of the time. She didn't pull any punches or sugar coat anything, documenting the behaviour women have not just put up with but accepted as the norm. But the message is no more. Take control.

But what this story is really about is something we still recognise now. Are women able to have it all? At the beginning Cleo wants a happy marriage and above all children with Mike but she wants her career too. Muffin wants fame and fortune but respect and love too. Can she have that when her currency is her sexuality? 44 years on and five years after we lost the fabulous Jackie I don't think theres a clear answer yet.

This isn't the best of her novels, my personal opinion is that her renaissance began with Lovers and Gamblers and then of course the fantastic Santangelo series. But it's a very enjoyable guilty pleasure all the same, with full of larger than life characters and a fabulous plot as one would expect from JC.

I listened to Lucky from the Santangelo series recently and thought they'd picked a narrator that sounded similar to JC however I have since learnt the narrator India Thain is her grand daughter, hence why I was picking up the same tones. She does a fair job with this, she has a great range of accents and inflection without been OTT. But with this audiobook I found the end of chapters a little jarring. It felt as if she would continue but then suddenly "Chapter 22" and I'd be thinking wait what? Did it skip? I suspect this may have been recorded before Lucky as there is a clear difference between the two. But I hope she'll be doing more as she's really very promising. I'd love to hear Chances, Rock Star and Lovers and Gamblers....hell I want them all on audio! Be more Jackie? Yes but we want more Jackie and if we can't have new books then this is a great way to experience her work again and again.