The Frozen River

The Canadians, Book 3

De: Clare Flynn

Narrado por: Jenny Hoops

Three strong women make their way in 1950s Canada

English hairdresser, Ethel, is alone after the deaths of her family and her wartime fiancé. Widow and single mother, Alice, bringing up two daughters, receives an unexpected inheritance that will transform her life. War bride, Joan, is mother to three small children with a fourth on the way and money in short supply. All are brought together in a rural Canadian town where they each try to build a future - often in spite of the men in their lives.

Each woman has a different idea of happiness. Will any or all of them achieve it?

©2018 Clare Flynn (P)2020 Clare Flynn

Slow, boring very little to do with Canada

Would have liked to get a better understanding of uniquenesses of Canadian life. This farm life could have been anywhere. The narrator made it sound like a high school play. Wish it would have flowed using the same narrator as the first two books.

Narrator, Awful

It’s a great story, highly recommended. But for me, the narrator’s often high-pitched, piercing voice ruined it for me and I chose to stop listening.

Who is this old woman

I really enjoyed this series until I got to this last book. then all of a sudden the narrator aged about 50 years. her voice sounded so old I could not take the picture of the character that I've had in my mind and attach it to this voice. I almost didn't finish the book because of that and then at the very end this young woman's voice appears was very strange

good story, bad narrator

I listened to the 1st 2 books in the series back to back but waited to listen to the 3rd for some time. I think this must be a different narrator and maybe producer because she is not the right fit for this book. There are noticeable changes in character accents throughout that made me wish she hadn't tried accents at all. That and the uneven meter threw me off many times where I had to rewind. The production problem for me was the too long pauses between chapters. I kid you not 43 chapters in, I still would look at my phone to make sure the app hadn't closed they were that long.
The story itself is a very nice and tidy close to the series. overall I am glad I listened.

Awful

One guy killed Ethan’s husband, tried to rape Joan, impregnated and left Alice, kidnapped a child, burned a car and a barn, tried to seduce the doctor’s daughter. Everyone else in the book are good people?