Harpers Heroes

Welcome to Harpers Emporium, Book 4

By: Rosie Clarke

Narrated by: Polly Edsell

Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

From the bestselling author of the Welcome to Harpers Emporium and The Mulberry Lane Series.

The Harpers Girls come face to face with the harsh reality of the cruelty of war.

Oxford Street, London 1915

Sally Harper quietly battles to keep Harpers afloat in the difficult days of the war, whilst husband Ben is working all hours for the War Office.

Beth Burrow is fighting concern for her husband Jack, now at sea with the Merchant Navy, and the fear she may never see him again and be blessed with a child.

Driven to exhaustion, Maggie Gibbs, is now working as a nursing assistant on the battlefields in France. With the everyday horrors of the casualties of war to contend with she suffers her own personal tragedy when her fiancé's plane ditches in the sea.

Can the Harpers Girls and their loved ones survive the perils of war and find a path to future happiness?

A heart-warming saga following the lives, loves and losses of the Harpers Girls. Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries, Pam Howes and Dilly Court.

©2020 Rosie Clarke (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

terrible terrible voice acting

the speech impediments make me crazy I don't know why she felt the need to give people speech impediments or everybody sounds like Eliza Doolittle nothing in between

The Thought of Another Man Touching Her Made Her “Thick”

“Thick”? “Thick”?! Oh!!!! Ok. “Sick”.

I had to rewind just to understand Sadie and what she was trying to say!! Oh my goodness!! Why, oh why, would a narrator throw in a speech impediment that’s not part of the storyline?! Just for fun?!! And why was this allowed?!

The story was a good one, continuing the saga of the Harper Girls. I particularly liked the stories of Maggie and Marion. The scenes of nursing in a field hospital are vivid and easy to imagine!

But the narration was absolutely lacking. Sadie and Kathy spoke so slowly and in such monotone voices that I was immediately reminded of Kerry in the tv show In Country. (Only Kerry is funny!)

I’m only working my way through the series because I like the storylines but in all honesty I almost DNF due to the narration.

Story good but narration lacking

Narration of mens characters bad as well as expression of words that make characters sound very simple

Love the Series!

I have enjoyed this series so far; however, what happened with the narration? All the sudden everything changed and it made it more confusing to keep up with the characters and some of the voices were terrible.

Love the Harpers Girls, dislike the narrator

I love the series and all the characters but this narrator makes it SO hard to want to listen. Her voice for Sadie is terrible as is her take on Jenni’s American accent… why they didn’t engage the first narrator, I’ll never understand. I’ll suffer thru the next book because I want to know how the story goes but I’m excited the original narrator will be back for the last one.

Wonderful story, poor narrator

This narrator was not good with accents and was difficult to understand at times. I wish the the narrator of earlier books had carried on with this one. I struggled through the horrible accents because the story was so good

Voices

Loved the story, hate Sadie’s voice!! Don’t like the lisping. Not crazy about some of the others either

Great series

This is a very pleasant series. The characters are likeable and real. The narrator has skills but they do not involve voices. Her narratives are nicely done but a few of the voices are atrocious.

can't get enough!

'Loved it! I've already recommended this series to family. I'm looking forward to the next book.

The best book so far in the series

Don’t get me wrong, I have liked them all a lot but there was a quality to this one that was great. I really like all the women and their bond with one another, but my favorite character is Marco. Such a fantastic series! Can’t wait for the next.