The Letter Reader

De: Jan Casey

Narrado por: Annie Aldington

London, 1941. Keen to do her bit in the war, Connie Allinson joins the WRNS and is posted as a letter censor. Her task: to read and alter correspondence to ensure no sensitive information crosses enemy lines. At first, she is not sure she's up to it, but is soon drawn in by the letters she reads, and their secret...

Doncaster, 1967. Bored of her domestic life, Connie desperately wants a job, but her controlling husband Arthur won't hear of it. Looking for an escape and plagued by memories of letters she read during the war, she makes a bid for freedom and starts secretly tracking down their authors. Will uncovering their past give Connie the key to her present? And will she be able to find them all before Arthur discovers what she is keeping from him?

©2023 Jan Casey (P)2023 Soundings

I recommend reading this rather than listenin

While the story was good, Arthur was SO annoying that it made the story irritating. If I heard him call Connie "Treasure" one more time I thought I would gag. Did he not know her name? But then he did because he constantly referred to himself as "Constance's Constant" - ugh!
Maybe if I had not listened to the book it would not have come across as so so annoying.
And how Connie put up with it all those years is beyond me!
But I did learn a lot about the women who censored the mail during the war, something I knew little about so for that I did give it 3 stars.
And it was a pretty decent story about a woman coming into her own.
I would recommend the book to READ, but, even tho the narration was good, I would not suggest listening to it because it really did become very annoying.