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The Brewer's Tale
- Narrated by: Hannah Norris
- Length: 23 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
It had been Mother's secret and mine, one passed down through the de Winter women for generations. I would ensure it was kept that way, until I was ready to pass it on.When Anneke Sheldrake is forced to find a way to support her family after her father is lost at sea, she turns to the business by which her mother’s family once prospered: brewing ale.
Armed with her Dutch mother’s recipes and a belief that anything would be better than the life her vindictive cousin has offered her, she makes a deal with her father’s aristocratic employer: Anneke has six months to succeed or not only will she lose the house but her family as well.
Through her enterprise and determination, she inadvertently earns herself a deadly enemy. Threatened and held in contempt by those she once called friends, Anneke nonetheless thrives. But on the tail of success, tragedy follows and those closest to her pay the greatest price for her daring.Ashamed, grieving, and bearing a terrible secret, Anneke flees to London, determined to forge her own destiny. Will she be able to escape her past, and those whose only desire is to see her fail?
A compelling insight into the brewer’s craft, the strength of women, and the myriad forms love can take.
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- Anonymous User
- 25-11-22
Well it’s long!
And sometimes the repetitive and longwinded storyline is somewhat annoying. Nonetheless, it’s an entertaining story and there are some beautiful descriptions and detail by the author.
Having read the Wife of Bath I was disappointed to hear the narrator has given Alison a raw London accent- it got progressively more pronounced as the novel wore on. There were also some niggling mispronunciations of words like ‘ascertain’ - surely that could have been corrected.
It’s a good tale and informative about the history of brewing.
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