Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Sample
  • Reality in Check

  • A Sapphic Celebrity Ice Queen Romance (A South Downs Romance, Book 2)
  • By: Emily Banting
  • Narrated by: Angela Dawe
  • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Reality in Check

By: Emily Banting
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £14.99

Buy Now for £14.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
activate_samplebutton_t1

Listeners also enjoyed...

When You Smile cover art
Broken Beyond Repair cover art
Pieces of Us cover art
Cover Story cover art
The Senator's Wife cover art
Houseswap 101 cover art
On the Same Page cover art
I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You cover art
The Headmistress cover art
Say Cheese cover art
Crossing the Line cover art
A Lesbian's Guide to Women cover art
The Fixer cover art
The Love Conspiracy cover art
Destination You cover art
Bachelorette Number Twelve cover art

Summary

From the multi-award-winning, best-selling author of Broken Beyond Repair comes a new sapphic celebrity ice queen romance — listened to as a standalone or as the second book in the South Downs Romance series.

Sculptor Arte Tremaine is thrown into the hospitality industry when her beloved late grandmother bequeaths her and her sister a charming yet rundown country hotel with zero guests. Arte is determined to make a success of the business, despite her sister snapping at her heels to sell it and painful memories confronting her inside.

Charlotte Beaufort, heiress to a hotel empire, television celebrity, and self-confessed city woman, hits the countryside to film an episode of her reality television show, Hotel SOS, where she immediately clashes with the overwhelmed Arte and her inquisitive Labrador, Rodin.

Arte doesn’t take kindly to Charlotte’s attitude and frank opinions about her hotel, but when they are thrown together, she begins to realise not everything is as it seems with her attractive nemesis. As Arte begins to chip away at Charlotte's icy exterior, both women begin to realise dreams and reality rarely entwine and that, sometimes, our dreams are not even our own.

Can the artsy dreamer and ambitious heiress face the reality of their situations and discover their true paths? And if so, can those paths lead them toward true love?

©2023 Emily Banting (P)2024 Emily Banting

What listeners say about Reality in Check

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    7
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    9
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    7
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

A wonderful story!

Emily Banting’s beautiful love story has been masterfully brought to life by Angela Dawes’ sublime narration. An elegantly satisfying listen.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

A FANTASTIC BEAUTIFUL ROMANCE. 💖

This is a touching beautiful romance that blossoms through a renovation TV show and finding paths anew through loss and unfulfilled pasts, merging dreams to build a future. The narration is exceptional and brilliant and such a joy to listen to. 🎶 I loved it and I definitely recommend this audio book. ❤

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Angela Dawes’ narration

Having enjoyed the first in the South Downs collection I was pleased to find this.
I like Emily Banting’s style of writing and was again immersed in the story finding myself chuckling or gasping in shock out loud in response to witty dialogue.
As for Angela Dawes, I can’t deny that I’m a sucker for her narration and how her sexy dulcet tones (particularly Charlotte’s voice) somehow manage to make the her even more appealing.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars

Not as good as......

Not as good as book one, although it was a nice touch including Beatrice and Sydney from book one at the end.
This is quite a cheesy story and a bit on the weak side. The narrator does her usual job with 'her' usual voices. I probably wouldn't of purchased it if I hadn't enjoyed book one, a credit not quite wasted but almost !

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!