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The Girl At the Lion D'or

AuthorSebastian Faulks

NarratorJames Wilby

Duration8h 35m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels

PublisherRandom House Audio Go

VersionUnabridged

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A beautifully controlled and powerful story of love and conscience, will and desire which begins when a mysterious young girl arrives to take up a post at the seedy H-tel du Lion d'Or in a small French town in the mid-1930s. The Girl at the Lion d'Or is the first book in Sebastian Faulks' French trilogy of novels followed by Birdsong (5373) and Charlotte Gray (13024).

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