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Publisher's Summary
The powerful new novel from master storyteller Jackie French
The soldiers called her the Angel of Waterloo...Henrietta Bartlett, the esteemed surgeon's daughter who was born on a battlefield, lost her mother on a battlefield, and was widowed on the battlefield, where she worked alongside her father on that fateful day in June 1815.
But after the carnage of war, Hen dreams of peace, and her own home, and a society that would allow a woman to practice medicine.
The new and faraway colony of New South Wales seems a paradise, where even convicts have a chance of a good life, and the Indigenous women are eager to teach Hen their vast knowledge of medical lore. But as the fallout of Europe's wars casts its dark shadows in the colony, Hen must work hard to find her place in this new country ...
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- Juseyjus
- 12-11-20
Among the best of books
This was a truly wonderful book. I feel like I have been looking to read a book that weaves a story around Australian colonisation for a long time. It captures the beauty and harshness of the landscape, the horror of the times, and the wonder of it too. I was engrossed from start to finish.
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- Susan Matthews
- 11-13-22
exceptional loved every minute
loved this book so much. almost cried when it was over now off to find another Jackie French book I haven't listened to or read.
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- Sonia
- 09-02-22
Loved it!
Wonderful story historical fiction ending in Australia really enjoyable
Narrator with various accents Well done!
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- Natalie P.
- 08-23-22
Lovely story
A very nice storyline. Fabulous narrator - such a soothing voice & great character creation. I looked forward to getting in the car to listen to this.
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- Finally Me
- 03-03-22
enthralling and heartbreaking
My 2nd Jackie French book, loved it so much and the performance was jyst excellent
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- Anonymous User
- 03-02-22
Magnificent! Unpredictable, humane, compelling,
very very very well read by the narrator. I loved every minute of this book!
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- Anonymous User
- 02-21-22
Held Captive
Who can't be held enthralled by Jackie French? Great storytelling weaving our history our sins and our passions. Thankyou.
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- vince
- 12-11-21
Loved!
I loved everything about this book.…the characters, the progression, the support, the understanding, tje strength, the love, the settings and of course the narration. I was completely engaged with every second of the story.
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- Jennifer
- 11-12-21
Why aren't there more Aunty Hens?
Could such a forthright woman have existed? Little Black Princess meets Secret River, Black Emu and Jane Austen. An enjoyable listen.
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- ML
- 11-04-21
What a cracking story.
I did not expect to be so completely captivated by the characters, the plot and the details of life in colonial Australia. So grateful for the author’s acknowledgments and explanation at the conclusion of this audio book. I think I am ok with how the story ended….
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 493
Susannah Leyton has grown up behind the counter of her father's apothecary shop in bustling Fleet Street. A skilled student, her father has granted her the freedom to pursue her considerable talents. But Susannah is dealt a shocking blow when her widowed father marries again, and her stepmother seems determined to remove her from the apothecary shop. A proposal of marriage from the charming Henry Savage seems to offer Susannah an escape. But as the plague sweeps through London, tragedy strikes, and dark secrets from her husband's past begin to unfold.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Keeping my attention
- By Rachel on 06-04-15
By: Charlotte Betts
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The Hungry Road
- By: Marita Conlon-McKenna
- Narrated by: Caroline Lennon
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
1845. Seamstress Mary Sullivan’s dreams of a better future are shattered as she looks out over their ruined crop. Refusing to give in to despair, she must use every ounce of courage and strength to protect her family as they fight to survive. Dr Dan Donovan is medical officer to the Skibbereen Union. The arrival of ‘The Hunger’ soon brings starving men, women and children crowding into the town and the workhouse, desperate for assistance. Fr. John Fitzpatrick’s faith is tested by the suffering that surrounds him as his pleas for help fall on deaf ears.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eye Opening
- By Janet B Greene on 11-07-20
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The Hands of Time
- The Hands of Time, Book 1
- By: Irina Shapiro
- Narrated by: Fiona Small
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 103
When a young woman vanishes without a trace from a quaint fishing village on the coast of England, only one person knows the truth, but he remains silent allowing the authorities to search for her in vain. Meanwhile, Valerie Crane finds herself transported to the year 1605. Terrified and confused, she turns for help to the Whitfield brothers, who take her in and offer her a home. Both Alexander and Finlay Whitfield fall in love with the mysterious woman, who shows up on their doorstep, creating a love triangle that threatens to consume them all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't wait to listen to the next book!
- By Amanda Parks on 07-27-20
By: Irina Shapiro
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My Name Is Resolute
- By: Nancy E. Turner
- Narrated by: Mhairi Morrison
- Length: 25 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 128
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 118
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Story5 out of 5 stars 118
The year is 1729, and Resolute Talbot and her siblings are captured by pirates, taken from their family in Jamaica and brought to the New World. Resolute and her sister are sold into slavery in colonial New England and taught the trade of spinning and weaving. When Resolute finds herself alone in Lexington, Massachusetts, she struggles to find her way in a society that is quick to judge a young woman without a family. As the seeds of rebellion against England grow, Resolute is torn between following the rules and breaking free.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story
- By Cheryl Lawhead on 06-10-21
By: Nancy E. Turner
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The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr
- By: Susan Holloway Scott
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 189
Eugenie Bearhani (1760-1835) was born in Calcutta, raised in Haiti, and brought as a servant - a free woman of color - to America by an English officer on the eve of the American Revolution. Yet none of that prepared Eugenie for her next employer: Colonel Aaron Burr, who some whispered had made a pact with the devil. The lines between master and servant soon tangle and blur, and first attraction becomes dangerous obsession. Many historians deny she even existed, but she and the children she bore to Burr were very real - so was her little-known marriage to America's first true villain.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Read it instead.
- By Jennifer Baker on 09-15-20
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Mask of Duplicity
- The Jacobite Chronicles, Book 1
- By: Julia Brannan
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor, Will M. Watt
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 445
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 443
Following the death of their father, Beth's brother, Richard, returns from the army to claim his share of the family estate. However, Beth's hopes of a quiet life are dashed when Richard, dissatisfied with his meager inheritance and desperate for promotion, decides to force her into a marriage for his military gain. He will stop at nothing to get his way.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Historical fiction w/ excellent dual narration.
- By Mair on 03-07-19
By: Julia Brannan
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The Apothecary's Daughter
- By: Charlotte Betts
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 535
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 493
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 493
Susannah Leyton has grown up behind the counter of her father's apothecary shop in bustling Fleet Street. A skilled student, her father has granted her the freedom to pursue her considerable talents. But Susannah is dealt a shocking blow when her widowed father marries again, and her stepmother seems determined to remove her from the apothecary shop. A proposal of marriage from the charming Henry Savage seems to offer Susannah an escape. But as the plague sweeps through London, tragedy strikes, and dark secrets from her husband's past begin to unfold.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Keeping my attention
- By Rachel on 06-04-15
By: Charlotte Betts
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The Hungry Road
- By: Marita Conlon-McKenna
- Narrated by: Caroline Lennon
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
1845. Seamstress Mary Sullivan’s dreams of a better future are shattered as she looks out over their ruined crop. Refusing to give in to despair, she must use every ounce of courage and strength to protect her family as they fight to survive. Dr Dan Donovan is medical officer to the Skibbereen Union. The arrival of ‘The Hunger’ soon brings starving men, women and children crowding into the town and the workhouse, desperate for assistance. Fr. John Fitzpatrick’s faith is tested by the suffering that surrounds him as his pleas for help fall on deaf ears.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eye Opening
- By Janet B Greene on 11-07-20
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Tidelands
- The Fairmile Series, Book 1
- By: Philippa Gregory
- Narrated by: Louise Brealey
- Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,887
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,669
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,655
On Midsummer’s Eve, Alinor waits in the church graveyard, hoping to encounter the ghost of her missing husband and thus confirm his death. Until she can, she is neither maiden nor wife nor widow, living in a perilous limbo. Instead she meets James, a young man on the run. She shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marshy landscape of the Tidelands, not knowing she is leading a spy and an enemy into her life. England is in the grip of a bloody civil war that reaches into the most remote parts of the kingdom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Please pay close attention to the opening scenes and description of the land and sea
- By paula wright on 09-02-19
By: Philippa Gregory
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A Castaway in Cornwall
- By: Julie Klassen
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 257
Set adrift on the tides of fate by the deaths of her parents and left wanting answers, Laura Callaway now lives with her uncle and his disapproving wife in North Cornwall. While wreckers search for valuables along the windswept Cornwall coast - known for its many shipwrecks but few survivors - Laura searches for clues to the lives lost so she can write letters to next of kin and return keepsakes to rightful owners. When a man is washed ashore after a wreck, Laura acts quickly to protect him from a local smuggler determined to destroy him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Feel the sea breeze as you read
- By Kindle Customer on 04-27-21
By: Julie Klassen
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The Summer Country
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Willig
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 474
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 418
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Story4 out of 5 stars 420
Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan - merely a vicar’s daughter, and a reform-minded vicar’s daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the family’s lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day. But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills, a sugar plantation in Barbados - a plantation her grandfather never told anyone he owned.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Tediously Interesting
- By Dina on 08-12-19
By: Lauren Willig
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A Lady’s Honor
- A Cliffs of Cornwall Novel
- By: Laurie Alice Eakes
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 16
England, 1811: When Elizabeth Trelawny flees London, she has more than one reason to run. And when her carriage, pursued by her would-be fiancé, is caught in a storm, she quickly accepts the help of a dark stranger. ABut Rowan Curnow is not exactly a stranger. He’s not quite a gentleman either. Class disparity once kept him from courting Elizabeth, even if it didn’t keep him from kissing her. The couple elude their pursuers and reach Bastion Point, Elizabeth’s future inheritance. But in the very act of spiriting her to safety, Rowan has jeopardized Elizabeth’s inheritance
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story where inheritance, love, and murder are at the forefront
- By Diana C. Kobylak on 12-02-21
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The Exiles
- A Novel
- By: Christina Baker Kline
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,497
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,178
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,162
Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early 19th-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas", Van Diemen’s Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: The child she carries will be born on the months-long voyage to this distant land.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Tragic
- By karis on 11-10-20
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Duke of Renown
- Dukes of Distinction, Book 1
- By: Alexa Aston
- Narrated by: Brian J. Gill
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Phoebe Smythe, countess of Borwick, suffers a tragic miscarriage when she learns her husband and young son have been killed in a carriage accident. The grieving widow retreats to an isolated cottage on the coast of Cornwall, where she finds a smuggler who’s washed ashore, blood leaking from a bullet wound.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed it
- By A. on 07-23-21
By: Alexa Aston
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Wedded to War
- Heroines Behind the Lines
- By: Jocelyn Green
- Narrated by: Laura E. Richcreek
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 56
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