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The Scent of Lemon Leaves

By: Clara Sánchez
Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins, Sean Baker
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Five months pregnant and facing difficult decisions, 30-year-old Sandra leaves her job and her boyfriend to take stock of her life in her sister’s beach house on the Costa Brava. She befriends an elderly Norwegian couple, Karin and Fredrik, who provide her with stimulating company and take the place of the grandparents she never had. However, when she meets Julian, a former concentration-camp inmate who has just returned to Europe from Argentina, she discovers that all is not what it seems and finds herself involved in a perilous quest for the truth.

©2012 Clara Sanchez (P)2012 Audible Ltd Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction
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Sadly after a promising beginning this story loss pace and some of the accents were so ridiculous it also lost reality. I listened to the end but was totally underwhelmed by the conclusion.

Why Such Strange Accents

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A very interesting take on the war. It is read in a two person dialog which to begin with, confused me. But the story was compelling, I though after the first hour I would just listen - just a little longer. The afternoon went by with me willing both characters on and my hoovering still waiting to be done!



There are many very good books about the war but fewer about what happened to those who did the atrocities. Did the survivors find a way to bring them to justice? how many were found? what did post war lawyers and courts call justice. It is good to know that some brave men and women who survived did keep the hunt up. But many of my questions cannot be answered here.



This is a story but has a very serious undertone. As a woman who like the girl in the story was not alive to witness these years (thankfully). It made me think. What would I do in that situation? How would I respond if I saw that or heard this or found myself with these people? Have I unknowingly been in the company of people like this? How could she? what! Wait what would I do?



It is well read and well worth a listen. It will make you think - I hope.



This is not a fluffy book that makes war look like a fun day in the park. It is a book about a war in the past that is still affecting people today. A war that destroyed human life. A war we all know about and the millions of people who's lives were changed, who's characters where hardened and who where never the same again.

It'll make you think.

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Wasn't sure where this story was going at first but I soon got hooked into the twists and turns. Very believable and yet novel. Very well read.

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This was my first book written by Clara Sanchez and I was really enchanted by her writing style. It is a book about morality and principles, about how we can find justification to all our actions even when it's clear that we've done wrong. The characters are very well constructed and little by little they become "part of your life". This aspect make the story believable and the overall experience one that you regret when it ends.

Good story, great characters

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Having lived through World War 2, I found this story extremely poignant and totally believable.

The narration could not be bettered, and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to both voices.

At no time did I feel my interest wain and I would recommend this book to anyone.

It is a story of the need for revenge, but totally understandable given the circumstances.

Whether or not you have personal experience of the war, I feel sure you will enjoy listening to the story and the gentle voices of the narrators.

The Scent of Lemon Leaves.

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