AuthorSanta Montefiore
NarratorGenevieve Swallow
Duration17h 30m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Historical Novels, Family Sagas
PublisherClipper
VersionUnabridged
Set in the ruggedly wild countryside of West Cork, Ireland, in the early part of the twentieth century, Songs of Love and War is an epic tale of three very different women all born in the year 1900: Kitty Deverill, the flame-haired Anglo-Irish daughter of the castle, Bridie Doyle, the daughter of the cook and Celia Deverill, Kitty's flamboyant English cousin. These three closely bonded girls enjoy a rare idyll in the dreamy grounds of the family's grand estate, Castle Deverill. Yet their peaceful way of life is threatened when Ireland's struggle for independence reaches their isolated part of the country and shapes them in ways they could never have imagined. A bastion of British supremacy, the castle itself is in danger of destruction as the war closes in around it, and Kitty, in love with the rebel Jack O'Leary and inflamed by her own sense of patriotism, is torn between loyalty to her Anglo-Irish family and her deep love of Ireland and Jack. Wrenched apart by betrayal, their world turned to ash, the girls' friendship seems all but lost as they are swept to different parts of the globe. Yet, they have one thing in common: a fierce and unwavering longing for Castle Deverill and all the memories contained within it.
Author: Santa Montefiore
Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Gerri Halligan, Maggie Mash
Duration 16h 5m
Ellen Trawton is running away from it all-literally. She's getting married to a man she doesn't love, her job is depressing and her mother is getting on her nerves. So she escapes to the one place she knows her mother won't follow her-her aunt's house in rural Ireland. Once there, she uncovers a dark family secret-and a future she never knew she mi...
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Author: Santa Montefiore
Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Genevieve Swallow
Duration 16h 47m
Arethusa Clayton has always been formidable, used to getting her own way. On her death, she leaves unexpected instructions. Instead of being buried in America, on the wealthy East Coast where she and her late husband raised their two children, Arethusa has decreed that her ashes be scattered in a remote corner of Ireland, on the...
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Author: Santa Montefiore
Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Jilly Bond
Duration 11h 15m
Bestselling children's book writer Angelica is amused and flattered at the attention of Jack, the owner of a vineyard in South Africa, whom she meets at a dinner party. With his easy charm and reputation as a ladies' man, Jack makes her feel good about herself-surely it can't do any harm to indulge in a mild email flirtation?
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The Deverill Chronicles Book 2: Daughters of Castle Deverill
Author: Santa Montefiore
Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Genevieve Swallow
Duration 18h 15m
It is 1925 and the war is long over. But much has been lost and life will never truly be the same again. Castle Deverill, cherished home to the Deverill family in the west of Ireland for hundreds of years, has burned to the ground. But young and flighty Celia Deverill is determined to restore the sad ruin to its former glory. Celia married well and...
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Author: Santa Montefiore
Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Penelope Rawlins
Duration 12h 53m
England, 1932: Grace Hamblin, the beekeeper's daughter, knows her place and her future, until her father dies. She's alone, except for one man who she just can't shake from her thoughts. Massachusetts, 1973: Grace's daughter Trixie Valentine is in love. But when he has to go home to England, he promises to come back, if she will wait for him. Both...
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Author: Santa Montefiore
Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Genevieve Gaunt
Duration 10h 5m
Dark secrets and hidden sorrows abound in Santa Montefiore's spellbinding new novel set in war-torn Italy and the streets of New York. New York, 1979. It is Thanksgiving and Evelina has her close family and beloved friends gathered around, her heart weighted with gratitude for what she has and regret for what she has given up. She has lived in A...
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Author: Santa Montefiore
Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Glen Mccready
Duration 13h 19m
A priceless Titian masterpiece. A sumptuous French chateau with a deadly secret. And a mystery hidden in a Bordeaux village that will change their lives forever... When elegant Anouk, a dealer in American antiques, dies unexpectedly, she leaves the Metropolitan museum an uncatalogued, multimillion dollar painting by Titian. Her son, Mischa, had no...
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The Deverill Chronicles Book 3: The Last Secret of the Deverills
Author: Santa Montefiore
Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Genevieve Swallow
Duration 14h 15m
The dramatic conclusion to the bestselling Deverill Chronicles. It is 1939, and peace has flourished since the Great War ended. Martha Wallace came to Dublin from her home in America to find her birth mother. But instead she has lost her heart to the impossibly charming JP Deverill. Bridie Doyle, now mistress of Castle Deverill, is determined to ma...
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Author: Santa Montefiore
Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Juanita Mcmahon
Duration 21h 37m
Santa Montefiore's involving and dramatic novel The Butterfly Box opens in Vina del Mar, Chile, in the sweltering Summer of 1982. Frederica Campione adores her father. When he gives her a magical box from Peru she believes he will always be there for her. Yet, when her parents' marriage falls apart, she is forced to move to Cornwall with her mother...
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Author: Santa Montefiore
Author Santa Montefiore
Narrator Rachel Atkins
Duration 13h 26m
Gracie Burton is a grandmother living quietly in Devon. She has rarely left the village over the past 40 years. Her daughter, Carina, is immensely high-powered, with her own fast-paced business in London. She has very little time for her 17-year-old daughter, Anastasia, away at boarding school, and even less time for her ageing mother. In many ways...
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