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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to a restless London in the wake of the Great War—a city bursting with money, glamour, and corruption—in this spellbinding tale of seduction and betrayal.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: WASHINGTON POST, TIME, THE GUARDIAN, BOOKLIST
"Set during Jazz Age London, in all its fizzy madness and desperation.... As dark as [Atkinson's] stories can get, within them always shines a beacon of humanity.”—Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of Dark Places
1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time.
The notorious queen of this glittering world is Nellie Coker, ruthless but also ambitious to advance her six children, including the enigmatic eldest, Niven, whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme. But success breeds enemies, and Nellie’s empire faces threats from without and within. For beneath the dazzle of Soho’s gaiety, there is a dark underbelly, a world in which it is all too easy to become lost.
With her unique Dickensian flair, Kate Atkinson gives us a window in a vanished world. Slyly funny, brilliantly observant, and ingeniously plotted, Shrines of Gaiety showcases the myriad talents that have made Atkinson one of the most lauded writers of our time.
Reseñas de la Crítica
A Best Book of the Year: The Guardian • BookBrowse • Slate
One of TIME Magazine’s Must-Read Books of the Year • A Top Ten Washington Post Best Books of the Year • A Kirkus Best Book of the Year
A Top Ten Washington Post’s Best Books of the year
"If Dickens had lived to write about The Jazz Age, he would have produced a novel much like Kate Atkinson’s Shrines of Gaiety. A sprawling and sparkling tale set in London in 1926...A smartly entertaining read that captures the excitement of Roaring 20s London."—Washington Post
"[Atkinson] takes on London in the 1920s, masterfully capturing both its shimmer and its seediness...It’s a deliciously fun, absorbing read."—Time
"Atkinson vividly conjures the post-Great War London of a century ago...Tangible warmth suffuses her storytelling...A cocktail of fizz and melancholy, generously poured."—The New York Times Book Review
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Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return ‘home’ when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pankot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Only the tyranny of their imposing landlady threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days.
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A Pleasant Meander
- De Ian C Robertson en 09-22-14
De: Paul Scott
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The Man with a Load of Mischief
- A Richard Jury Novel, Book 1
- De: Martha Grimes
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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At the Man with a Load of Mischief, they found the dead body stuck in a keg of beer. At the Jack and Hammer, another body was stuck out on the beam of the pub’s sign, replacing the mechanical man who kept the time. Two pubs. Two murders. One Scotland Yard inspector called in to help. Detective Chief Inspector Richard Jury arrives in Long Piddleton and finds everyone in the postcard village looking outside of town for the killer - except for one Melrose Plant....
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Love this series, but FYI
- De DCinMI en 03-29-14
De: Martha Grimes
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Goodnight from London
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Robson
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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In the summer of 1940, ambitious young American journalist Ruby Sutton gets her big break: the chance to report on the European war as a staff writer for Picture Weekly newsmagazine in London. She jumps at the chance, for it's an opportunity not only to prove herself, but also to start fresh in a city and country that know nothing of her humble origins. But life in besieged Britain tests Ruby in ways she never imagined.
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Light story
- De Bev Holdgate en 08-10-17
De: Jennifer Robson
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After the War Is Over
- A Novel
- De: Jennifer Robson
- Narrado por: Lucy Rayner
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave behind the devastation of the Great War. The daughter of a vicar, she has always been determined to dedicate her life to helping others. Moving to busy Liverpool, she throws herself into her work with those most in need, only tearing herself away for the lively dinners she enjoys with the women at her boardinghouse.
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More romance than history
- De RueRue en 08-17-16
De: Jennifer Robson
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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
- De: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrado por: Bill Wallis
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright, and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets out to solve the crime - but it is Wilde's unparalleled access to all degrees of late Victorian life, from society drawing rooms to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in their investigation....
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needs glue
- De connie en 11-13-11
De: Gyles Brandreth
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The Fire Rose
- De: Mercedes Lackey
- Narrado por: Kate Black-Regan
- Duración: 13 h
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Accepting employment as a governess after hard times hit her family, medieval scholar Rosalind Hawkins is surprised when she learns that her mysterious employer has no children and only wants her to read to him through a speaking tube.
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Great story, poorly presented
- De Che en 02-26-10
De: Mercedes Lackey
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Mrs Queen Takes the Train
- De: William Kuhn
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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An absolute delight of a debut novel by William Kuhn - author of Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books - Mrs Queen Takes the Train wittily imagines the kerfuffle that transpires when a bored Queen Elizabeth strolls out of the palace in search of a little fun, leaving behind a desperate team of courtiers who must find the missing Windsor before a national scandal erupts.
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Can't believe how much I loved this story
- De analyzethis en 03-10-13
De: William Kuhn
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The Postcard
- De: Leah Fleming
- Narrado por: Elaine Claxton
- Duración: 13 h y 18 m
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2002, Australia. When Melissa discovers a postcard addressed to 'Desmond' among her recently deceased father's effects, she is determined to discover this person's identity and his relationship to her father. She soon embarks on a journey that will take her across oceans and into the past...
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Meh
- De Summer Layne en 03-06-15
De: Leah Fleming
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Maisie Dobbs
- Maisie Dobbs, Book 1
- De: Jacqueline Winspear
- Narrado por: Orlagh Cassidy
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan’s friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie’s intuitive gifts. The outbreak of war changed everything. Ten years after the Armistice, in the spring of 1929, Maisie sets out on her own as a private investigator, one who has learned that coincidences are meaningful, and truth elusive.
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All ‘round tip top
- De nancy M en 01-10-23
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Lights Out Liverpool
- De: Maureen Lee
- Narrado por: Maggie Ollerenshaw
- Duración: 13 h y 59 m
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As Britain stands alone against a monstrous enemy, the inhabitants of Pearl Street face hardship and heartbreak with courage and humour. The war touches each of them in a different way: for Annie Poulson, a widow, it means never-ending worry when her twin boys are called up and sent to France; Sheila Reilly's husband, Cal, faces the terror of U-Boat attacks; Eileen Costello is liberated from a bitter, loveless marriage when her husband is sent to Egypt.
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Wonderful
- De Tansy Adderley en 10-03-18
De: Maureen Lee
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The Mayfair Bookshop
- A Novel of Nancy Mitford and the Pursuit of Happiness
- De: Eliza Knight
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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1938: She was one of the six sparkling Mitford sisters, known for her stinging quips, stylish dress, and bright green eyes. But Nancy Mitford’s seemingly dazzling life was really one of turmoil: with a perpetually unfaithful and broke husband, two Nazi sympathizer sisters, and her hopes of motherhood dashed forever. With war imminent, Nancy finds respite by taking a job at the Heywood Hill Bookshop in Mayfair, hoping to make ends meet, and discovers a new life.
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Perfectly Voices, Upliftingly Fun
- De Syd Young en 04-15-22
De: Eliza Knight
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The Perfume Collector
- A Novel
- De: Kathleen Tessaro
- Narrado por: Heather Wilds
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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London, 1955: Grace Monroe is a fortunate young woman. Despite her sheltered upbringing in Oxford, her recent marriage has thrust her into the heart of London's most refined and ambitious social circles. Then one evening a letter arrives from France that will change everything. Grace has received an inheritance. There's only one problem: she has never heard of her benefactor, the mysterious Eva d'Orsey. Told by invoking the three distinctive perfumes she inspired, Eva d'Orsey's story weaves through the decades, from 1920s New York to Monte Carlo, Paris, and London.
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Unbearable Narration
- De D McKay en 08-05-15
De: Kathleen Tessaro
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Call the Midwife
- A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
- De: Jennifer Worth
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 12 h y 1 m
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At the age of 22, Jennifer Worth left her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in postwar London’s East End slums. The colorful characters she met while delivering babies all over London - from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lived to the woman with 24 children who couldn't speak English to the prostitutes and dockers of the city’s seedier side - illuminate a fascinating time in history.
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The best book I've listened to this year
- De Richard en 06-12-13
De: Jennifer Worth
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Normal Rules Don't Apply
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A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that listeners love about her novels—the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop.
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Playful jigsaw puzzle of stories
- De ReallyNelie en 02-24-24
De: Kate Atkinson
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- A Novel
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Fenella Woolgar
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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In 1940, 18-year-old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat.
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A very satisfying two days!
- De Frances en 09-30-18
De: Kate Atkinson
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
- A Novel
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Pearl Hewitt
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whirlwind tour of the 20th century as seen through the eyes of an English girl determined to learn about her family and its secrets.
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Another Kate Atkinson multi-generational story
- De Satisfied Customer en 11-08-18
De: Kate Atkinson
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Case Histories
- A Novel
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Susan Jameson
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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Case One: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case Two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack. Case Three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.
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Trippy book
- De mary en 01-20-09
De: Kate Atkinson
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We, the Drowned
- De: Carsten Jensen
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 25 h y 24 m
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In 1848, a motley crew of Danish sailors sets sail from the small island town of Marstal to fight the Germans. Not all of them return - and those who do will never be the same. Among them is the daredevil Laurids Madsen, who promptly escapes again into the anonymity of the high seas. This is also the story of the port town of Marstal, Denmark, whose inhabitants sailed the world from the mid-19th century to the end of the Second World War and about the women and children they left behind.
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We, the Drowned
- De Z en 01-14-17
De: Carsten Jensen
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Hester
- A Novel
- De: Laurie Lico Albanese
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Edinburgh for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they've arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medic—leaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible. When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other.
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Exquisite
- De Bird Miller en 10-08-22
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Normal Rules Don't Apply
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- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Paterson Joseph
- Duración: 5 h y 37 m
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A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that listeners love about her novels—the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop.
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Playful jigsaw puzzle of stories
- De ReallyNelie en 02-24-24
De: Kate Atkinson
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- A Novel
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Fenella Woolgar
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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In 1940, 18-year-old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat.
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A very satisfying two days!
- De Frances en 09-30-18
De: Kate Atkinson
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum
- A Novel
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Pearl Hewitt
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whirlwind tour of the 20th century as seen through the eyes of an English girl determined to learn about her family and its secrets.
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Another Kate Atkinson multi-generational story
- De Satisfied Customer en 11-08-18
De: Kate Atkinson
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Case Histories
- A Novel
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Susan Jameson
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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Case One: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case Two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack. Case Three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.
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Trippy book
- De mary en 01-20-09
De: Kate Atkinson
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We, the Drowned
- De: Carsten Jensen
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 25 h y 24 m
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In 1848, a motley crew of Danish sailors sets sail from the small island town of Marstal to fight the Germans. Not all of them return - and those who do will never be the same. Among them is the daredevil Laurids Madsen, who promptly escapes again into the anonymity of the high seas. This is also the story of the port town of Marstal, Denmark, whose inhabitants sailed the world from the mid-19th century to the end of the Second World War and about the women and children they left behind.
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We, the Drowned
- De Z en 01-14-17
De: Carsten Jensen
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Hester
- A Novel
- De: Laurie Lico Albanese
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Edinburgh for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they've arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medic—leaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible. When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other.
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Exquisite
- De Bird Miller en 10-08-22
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Shine, Pamela! Shine!
- Out of Line collection
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Gwendoline Christie
- Duración: 42 m
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Pamela is a newly retired teacher with time on her hands. She’s finding it hard to muster enthusiasm for what’s ahead: exhausting postdivorce dating rituals and an uneasy relationship with her emotionally stunted, live-at-home son. But for Pamela, there’s a surprise in store that could challenge the status quo and, against all expectations, make life interesting again.
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Really terrible
- De Teatime2 en 09-13-20
De: Kate Atkinson
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The Wild Girl
- De: Kate Forsyth
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 17 h y 42 m
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One of six sisters, Dortchen Wild lives in the small German kingdom of Hesse-Cassel in the early 19th century. She finds herself irresistibly drawn to the boy next door, the handsome but very poor fairy-tale scholar Wilhelm Grimm.
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Painful
- De kem en 01-12-18
De: Kate Forsyth
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The Borrower
- A Novel
- De: Rebecca Makkai
- Narrado por: Kristen Sieh
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
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Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, 10-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes with celebrity Pastor Bob. Lucy stumbles into a moral dilemma when she finds Ian camped out in the library after hours with a knapsack of provisions and an escape plan.
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Great story and great performance!
- De Debra en 01-29-21
De: Rebecca Makkai
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The Whalebone Theatre
- A Read with Jenna Pick
- De: Joanna Quinn
- Narrado por: Olivia Vinall
- Duración: 18 h y 23 m
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One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, it belongs to the King, but twelve-year-old orphan Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household—her sister, Flossie; her brother, Digby, long-awaited heir to Chilcombe manor; Maudie Kitcat, kitchen maid; Taras, visiting artist—build a theatre from the beast’s skeletal rib cage. Within the Whalebone Theatre, Cristabel can escape her feckless stepparents and brisk governesses, and her imagination comes to life.
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Unbelievable Debut Novel!
- De NTexHiker en 10-13-22
De: Joanna Quinn
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A Single Thread
- A Novel
- De: Tracy Chevalier
- Narrado por: Fenella Woolgar
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
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1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to one of England's grandest cathedrals.
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Well-written but Not for Everyone
- De Janna Wong Healy en 04-05-20
De: Tracy Chevalier
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Tin Camp Road
- A Novel
- De: Ellen Airgood
- Narrado por: Marin Ireland
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
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Laurel Hill and her precocious daughter, Skye, have always been each other's everything. The pair lives on Lake Superior, where the local school has classes of just four children and the nearest hospital is a helicopter ride away. Though they live frugally, eking out a living with Laurel's patchwork of jobs, their deep love for each other feels like it can warm them even on the coldest of nights. What more do they need? One otherwise normal afternoon, their landlord decides to evict them in favor of a more profitable summer rental, and they are pushed farther to the margins.
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Great story, great narration
- De Mary Ann Cherenzia en 07-11-22
De: Ellen Airgood
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The Good Left Undone
- A Novel
- De: Adriana Trigiani
- Narrado por: Carlotta Brentan, Lisa Flanagan, Edoardo Ballerini, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
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Matelda, the Cabrelli family’s matriarch, has always been brusque and opinionated. Now, as she faces the end of her life, she is determined to share a long-held secret with her family about her own mother’s great love story: with her childhood friend, Silvio, and with dashing Scottish sea captain John Lawrie McVicars, the father Matelda never knew....
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Best one yet!
- De Sande en 05-01-22
De: Adriana Trigiani
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Sarum
- De: Edward Rutherfurd
- Narrado por: Roger Davis
- Duración: 53 h y 59 m
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In a novel of extraordinary richness the whole sweep of British civilisation unfolds through the story of one place, Salisbury, from beyond recorded time to the present day. The landscape - as old as time itself - shapes the destinies of the five families....
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Epic story but hard to follow - need reference mat
- De mntsmtl en 11-22-19
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Chances Are...
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- De: Richard Russo
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the 60s. They couldn't have been more different then, or even today - Lincoln's a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin' age. But each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971: the disappearance of the woman each of them loved - Jacy Calloway.
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Incredibly Disappointing
- De Brent Duncan en 08-28-19
De: Richard Russo
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The Force of Such Beauty
- A Novel
- De: Barbara Bourland
- Narrado por: Tessa Jubber
- Duración: 13 h y 4 m
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One sunny afternoon in an idyllic kingdom by the sea, a princess named Caroline pretends to sleep. When her keepers strike up a card game, Caroline sneaks into her maid’s car, turns the key, and drives right out of the palace. Alone for the first time in years, she gets on the next flight—only to land in the waiting arms of her guards. As she’s forcibly escorted back to her marble prison, something in Caroline breaks for good. It’s not her first failed attempt, and it won’t be her last. Caroline suspects that she’ll never escape. But she might find a way to be free.
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The downside of being a princess
- De RueRue en 07-31-23
De: Barbara Bourland
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The King at the Edge of the World
- A Novel
- De: Arthur Phillips
- Narrado por: Euan Morton
- Duración: 9 h y 33 m
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The year is 1601. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, childless. Her nervous kingdom has no heir. It is a capital crime even to think that Elizabeth will ever die. Potential successors secretly maneuver to be in position when the inevitable occurs. The leading candidate is King James VI of Scotland, but there is a problem. The queen’s spymasters - hardened veterans of a long war on terror and religious extremism - fear that James is not what he appears.
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What a trip!
- De BK en 04-03-20
De: Arthur Phillips
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The Taster
- De: V.S. Alexander
- Narrado por: Carol Monda
- Duración: 11 h y 58 m
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In early 1943, Magda Ritter's parents send her to relatives in Bavaria, hoping to keep her safe from the Allied bombs strafing Berlin. Young German women are expected to do their duty - working for the Reich or marrying to produce strong, healthy children. After an interview with the civil service, Magda is assigned to the Berghof, Hitler's mountain retreat. Only after weeks of training does she learn her assignment: she will be one of several young women tasting the Führer's food, offering herself in sacrifice to keep him from being poisoned.
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A MUST READ!!!!!
- De Sara en 02-10-18
De: V.S. Alexander
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Shrines of Gaiety
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- Beth Firmin
- 12-21-22
A Different kind of Kate Atkinson Novel
Even with Jason Watkins’ entertaining narration, I struggled to take much interest in any of the many characters in this book. Ms. Atkinson never lets the reader get too close to the protagonists. Nelly, Frieda, Gwendolyn, Frobisher-they’re all frustratingly just out of emotional, psychological reach. I was left wanting more in depth character studies as in Ms. Atkinson’s many other novels. The settings were more forthcoming and outshone the plot and characters.
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- C J Mcmullin
- 11-14-22
Magnificent
True Kate Atkinson beautifully drawn characters, compelling story. Riveting & charming along with murders & mystery. This writer’s style is compelling. Her stories leave the reader satisfied & surprised. The reader is perfectly matched to Atkinson’s characters.
I may wait a week or to & begin this book again.
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- Thai
- 01-29-23
Loved it all until the abrupt ending
Thoroughly enjoyed Atkinson’s new book, but wish we had more time with the characters, especially with Niven and Florence at the end!! I also wish Niven and Gwendolyn had a proper ending. The trademark Atkinson complex story telling, humor, wonderful characterizations are all there though.
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- 02-25-23
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5 * all around is pretty generous for me. Narrator was a good fit. Wonderfully nuanced characters. Good writing: “don’t do anything I wouldn’t do, leaving a narrow margin for …”.
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- duczi
- 09-07-23
Very enjoyable
I am always looking for Kate Atkinson's new books. This one was good, too. Maybe not as good as the Jackson Brody novels or Life After Life, but still very good. I love her style, her sentences are brilliant and her unique sense of humor is always a bonus.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-11-23
Improves as you go
I truly loved this novel. The era is one I don’t read enough about. And I love it historical references. The characters, to me, were riveting. And the development of the story was well-paced.
Critics have complained about the ending. But for me, it matched much of that tone of the novel. I highly recommend.
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- Autumn
- 10-10-22
Simply delightful
I thoroughly enjoyed this, the third of Kate Atkinson’s novels that I’ve read.
Dark, yet still lighter fare than Life after Life & A God in Ruins, both of which I’ve read twice.
Perhaps the lightness is because of the charm of the narrator. To know for sure, I’ll have to actually read it with my eyes someday in the future, which I look forward to.
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- Georgia Burns
- 10-23-22
Settle down for an enjoyable immersion
I chose this book after reading Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series. Confession: first SAW it on PBS. Her quirky, dark-humored writing sets her apart and elevates the pleasure in the story. Jason Watkins matter-of-fact narration was the perfect accompaniment.
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- Dot
- 01-14-23
Disappointing ending
The story was a good one, but it seemed as if someone ran in and told Kate Atkinson she had 15 minutes to finish the story. Everything was abruptly wrapped up. Not at all satisfying.
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- Mary Ellen Harley
- 11-12-22
A Wonderful Story Set in 1920s England
Thank you Kate Atkinson for a wonderful story set in 1920s England! I have read many of her previous books and this one ranks close to the top. I really liked the post war '20s setting and was not familiar with it before. The story centers around a family that runs nightclubs in London and their interaction with police and the local gangs and girls seeking fame. The characters are so well woven into the story and the narrator so perfect in his intonation and delivery that it was hard to 'put down' until I finished. Her descriptions are well written so you feel as if you know these people first hand. At the end there are some notes about the actual depictions from the era which are fascinating (like the baby party for the spoiled young adults). The best book I have read this year!
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