
The Reluctant Widow
Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance
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Narrated by:
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Daon Broni
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By:
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Georgette Heyer
About this listen
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One of the best-known and most beloved historical novelists, Georgette Heyer, as ever, captures a whole new audience's heart.
Stepping into the wrong carriage at a Sussex village, Elinor Rochdale is swept up in a thrilling and dangerous adventure. Overnight the would-be governess becomes mistress of a ruined estate and partner in a secret conspiracy to save a family's name. By midnight, she is a bride, by dawn, a widow.
A typically thrilling and sweeping tale of romance and tragedy, The Reluctant Widow is Georgette Heyer at her best - the undisputed queen of historical romance.
©1946 Georgette Heyer (P)2021 Penguin AudioHowever, I found the narration did not do the book justice. The narrator often speaks far too quickly. He does not highlight the humorous elements in any way. His voices are good, but when reading the prose, has such a strange way of speaking. He emphasises the 't', issues an unusual cadence and seems to be trying to speak RP English when this isn't necessarily natural to him. I found it jarring.
I still love the book, though.
A slightly disappointing narration
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Lovely narrator, amazing story
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Love the book, narrator fails.
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Georgette Heyer is a masterstroke, of such quality of writing.
Very well narrated, and worth a read.
Exciting
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Another good story.
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Too many mistakes
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Awful storytelling…surely the reader at least runs through the script before recording…very disjointed sentences, odd accent’s especially Becky, and Carlyon for that matter, an essential character to get right, half the time you wondered if Carlyon thought he’d strayed into the wrong story!!! Miserable carping heroine who should have been much more humerus and ironic.
A good book ruined.
Worst Audible listen yet!
Poor Narrator
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Meeting an old friend with joyful recollection
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Relaxing fluff
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Heyer at her best!
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