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The Dressmaker's Gift
- By: Fiona Valpy
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik, Justine Eyre
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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From the best-selling author of The Beekeeper’s Promise comes a gripping story of three young women faced with impossible choices. How will history - and their families - judge them? Paris, 1940. With the city occupied by the Nazis, three young seamstresses go about their normal lives as best they can. But all three are hiding secrets. War-scarred Mireille is fighting with the Resistance; Claire has been seduced by a German officer; and Vivienne’s involvement is something she can’t reveal to either of them.
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Incredible History
- By Elizabeth on 25-06-2024
- The Dressmaker's Gift
- By: Fiona Valpy
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik, Justine Eyre
Narrator hard to listen to.
Reviewed: 09-03-2023
Enjoyed the story but found the narrator depressing to listen too, I couldn’t wait for it to finish.
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These Tangled Vines
- A Novel
- By: Julianne MacLean
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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If Fiona has learned anything in life, it’s how to keep a secret - even from the father who raised her. She is the only person who knows about her late mother’s affair in Tuscany thirty years earlier, and she intends to keep it that way...until a lawyer calls with shocking news: her biological father has died and left her an incredible inheritance - along with two half siblings.
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Wonderful story, frustratingly told at times
- By PK on 15-07-2022
- These Tangled Vines
- A Novel
- By: Julianne MacLean
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Didn’t enjoy
Reviewed: 01-12-2022
Couldn’t wait to finish this one, the narrator’s voice was so depressing to listen to.
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The Lost Apothecary
- By: Sarah Penner
- Narrated by: Sarah Cullum
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Hidden in the depths of 18th-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary’s fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious 12-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries.
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Hard to listen to.
- By Sue on 22-08-2021
- The Lost Apothecary
- By: Sarah Penner
- Narrated by: Sarah Cullum
Hard to listen to.
Reviewed: 22-08-2021
I found ‘Carolyns’ voice very hard to listen to, the same monotone and at times forceful. Had to make myself listen as I was interested in the story.
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A Mother's Goodbye
- By: Kate Hewitt
- Narrated by: Lisa Rost-Welling
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Two women’s lives are forever entwined by the love for the same child and by the agonizing choices they will both have to make. A Mother’s Choice will make listeners ask themselves what it truly means to be a parent and whether they could make an ultimately selfless decision when it comes to their child’s future.
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Twists and turns to plot
- By Julie George on 18-01-2023
- A Mother's Goodbye
- By: Kate Hewitt
- Narrated by: Lisa Rost-Welling
Not my sort of book
Reviewed: 10-12-2019
I found this a bit depressing but I guess life isn’t all happy times. Struggled to finish it, predictable half way through. Narrator used the same monotone, a little bit dreary. Now for a happy book.
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
- A Novel
- By: Kim Michele Richardson
- Narrated by: Katie Schorr
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything - everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble.
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DNF, in fact barely started
- By Valerie on 26-11-2020
- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
- A Novel
- By: Kim Michele Richardson
- Narrated by: Katie Schorr
A little bit of history
Reviewed: 17-11-2019
Loved this book, was going to read the Giver of stars, similar storyline, but choose this instead, glad I did. Beautifully narrated, easy listening and interesting story. Just had to Google Blue people when I’d finished.
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Year One
- Chronicles of The One, Book 1
- By: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
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It began on New Year’s Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed - and more than half of the world’s population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place.
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If you're looking for a good fantasy novel.
- By Adam Dixon on 23-03-2018
- Year One
- Chronicles of The One, Book 1
- By: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Fantasy
Reviewed: 01-10-2019
Unfortunately I didn’t enjoy this book, boarded on teenage fantasy, I wish I had read more reviews before reading. I’m not one for fairies, elf’s, witchcraft and foul language, a disappointing read.
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The Butterfly Room
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
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Posy Montague is approaching her 70th birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an agonising decision. The house is crumbling around her, and Posy knows the time has come to sell it. Then a face appears from the past - Freddie, her first love, who abandoned her and left her heartbroken 50 years ago.
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Beautiful as a butterfly
- By Adrianna Strafella Coyte-King on 13-05-2019
- The Butterfly Room
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
Read in a couple of days
Reviewed: 27-06-2019
Loved this book, felt like I wanted to meet the characters, I didn’t want it to end.
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The Clockmaker's Daughter
- By: Kate Morton
- Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt
- Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
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In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor in rural Oxfordshire. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe’s life is in ruins. Over 150 years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items.
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Almost perfect
- By Mike on 07-03-2019
- The Clockmaker's Daughter
- By: Kate Morton
- Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt
Frustrating
Reviewed: 17-06-2019
I normally enjoy Kate Mortons books, and was eager to read this one. Unfortunately, I’m so confused, I’ve read and reread the first 6 chapters a dozen times, trying to understand and place the characters but find it so disjointed. I hate not finishing a book but this one, sad to say, I’m not sure I have the patience.
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