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While We're Apart

By: Ellie Dean
Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
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The compelling new Second World War novel from Sunday Times top-ten best-selling author of Some Lucky Day.

It is 1942, and England is at war. Mary Jones has just celebrated her eighteenth birthday and said good-bye to her childhood sweetheart, Jack, when she learns her house has taken a direct hit during a tip-and-run raid.With both her parents dead and her home destroyed, a distraught Mary moves in with Jack’s parents.

But her father's trunk is still intact amid the ruins, and Mary discovers a shocking secret amongst his diaries. Mary travels to Cliffehaven on the south coast in search of answers. There she is billeted withPeggy Reilly’s fearsome sister, Doris. When warm-hearted Peggy befriends Mary, she discovers the young woman’s secret. But she begins to regret getting involved, for there can be only trouble ahead...

©2005 Ellie Dean (P)2015 Random House Audiobooks Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Romance Heartfelt
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Jim's voice was awful spoilt the story but love these books funny but touching great story line

Jim's voice was awful spoilt but love these book

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I'm working my way .through the series a bit higgilty piggilty as I started mid way to.the end with.good old fashioned books, then started audible and you notice the different narrators and how they.portray characters like Cordelia, Ron and Jim. some good, some not so.

reading the series

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I think it should be obligatory for new narrators to listen to a couple of books in the series before they narrate. Jim, a cheeky Irish man became a cockney , even though you could hear the writing had an Irish lilt. Every characters voice had changed and Rosie sounded like a dumb blonde , when she was far from that. This series is brilliant. I’m so invested in the storyline. Poor narration ruins things especially when the reader is a few books in.

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I love these stories, they weave together so cleverly. My only niggle was the narrator, she played the characters very differenty, all the women had odd, very dumb voices and Jim went from being Irish to being an intimidating Cockney, the narrating voice however, was good. Looking foreard to the next in the series and the narrator is back to an original.

So much coming together, gave me goosebumps

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I love the Cliffehaven books so far. Peggy is such a caring character. Definitely better than her sister Doris

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