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The Words I Never Wrote

By: Jane Thynne
Narrated by: Tara Ward, Nathalie Buscombe
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A chance discovery inside a vintage typewriter case reveals the gripping story of two sisters on opposite sides of World War II in this captivating novel for listeners of Lilac Girls and The Women in the Castle.

New York, present day: On a whim, Juno Lambert buys a 1931 Underwood typewriter that once belonged to celebrated journalist Cordelia Capel. Within its case she discovers an unfinished novel, igniting a transatlantic journey to fill the gaps in the story of Cordelia and her sister and the secret that lies between them.

Europe, 1936: Cordelia's socialite sister Irene marries a German industrialist who whisks her away to Berlin. Cordelia, feistier and more intellectual than Irene, gets a job at a newspaper in Paris, pursuing the journalism career she cherishes. As politics begin to boil in Europe, the sisters exchange letters and Cordelia discovers that Irene's husband is a Nazi sympathiser. With increasing desperation, Cordelia writes to her beloved sister, but as life in Nazi Germany darkens, Irene no longer dares admit what her existence is truly like. Knowing that their letters cannot tell the whole story, Cordelia decides to fill in the blanks by sitting down with her Underwood and writing the truth. When Juno reads the unfinished novel, she resolves to uncover the secret that continued to divide the sisters amid the turmoil of love, espionage and war.

In this vivid portrait of Nazi Berlin, from its high society to its devastating fall, Jane Thynne examines the truths we sometimes dare not tell ourselves.

©2020 Jane Thynne (P)2020 W. F. Howes Ltd

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Fabulous

Heart warming and heart wrenching. The relationship of sisters is like no other. Beautifully written and read.

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Beautiful story! loved it!

I would love it if the narrator could pronounce the few foreign words correctly :-/ other than that, it was fantastic and I didn't want it to end!

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I love Jane Thynne novels

GREAT! I found this to be a great, moving story. now more Clara Vine please!

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The Rubik’s cube of WWII

Two British sisters in 1936, one ends up in Berlin, the other in Paris. As WWII unfolds, this is their story.

Like most novels it has some twists a nd turns and , in the end, it’s an interesting and fun listen.

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Naive political comparisons

The book had a somewhat interesting plot. But I immensely disliked the manner in which the author included her not so thinly veiled comparisons of President Trump to Hitler.

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