Brackish Waters

Kate wins an all-inclusive stay at SeaView at Sandpiper Bay in her children's school auction and convinces herself it is exactly what her family needs after a decade of career disappointments and a marriage running on fumes. The resort turns out to be a fraud on a spectacular scale, and the week is a slow-motion catastrophe.

Back home, Kate - a writer who never quite made it - channels everything into the one piece she is finally sure of: an anthemic, unhinged, wholly justified one-star Yelp review of SeaView, which becomes a full accounting of a life that has not gone to plan.

Matt Boren's scripted Audible Original is performed by Christina Applegate with a supporting cast, and runs under two hours.