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The Giver of Stars

AuthorJojo Moyes

NarratorJulia Whelan

Duration13h 52m

CategoriesNovels, Adult Fiction

PublisherW.F. Howes

VersionUnabridged

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The greatest love story is the one you least expect....

Alice Wright doesn’t love her new American husband. 

Nor her domineering father-in-law or the judgemental townsfolk of Baileyville, Kentucky.

Stifled and misunderstood, she yearns for escape and finds it in defiant Margery O’Hare and the sisterhood bringing books to the isolated and vulnerable. 

But when her father-in-law and the town turn against them, Alice fears the freedom, friendship and the new love she’s found will be lost...

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Pauline 11 Jan 2023

It could be a film.

Thanks to the exceptional narrator Julia Whelan, I was totally immersed in this audio book. I could picture the story in my mind, like a film. The 4 stars instead of 5 are because of the annoying glitches on the CD.

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