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Author: Tracy Chevalier
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Author Tracy Chevalier
Narrator Fenella Woolgar
Duration 10h 45m
Violet is 38. The First World War took everything from her. Her brother, her fiancé – and her future. She is now considered a ‘surplus woman’. But Violet is also fiercely independent and determined. Escaping her suffocating mother, she moves to Winchester to start a new life –a change that will require courage, resi...
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Author: Tracy Chevalier
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Author Tracy Chevalier
Narrator Hattie Morahan
Duration 9h 16m
In the early nineteenth century, a windswept beach along the English coast brims with fossils for those with the eye... From the moment she's struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is different. Her discovery of strange fossilized creatures in the cliffs of Lyme Regis sets the world alight. Mary must face powerful prejudice from a m...
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Author Tracy Chevalier
Narrator Laurel Lefkow
Duration 8h 47m
Honor Bright is a sheltered Quaker who has rarely ventured out of 1850s Dorset when she impulsively emigrates to America. Opposed to the slavery that defines and divides the country, she finds her principles tested to the limit when a runaway slave appears at the farm of her new family. In this tough, unsentimental place, where whisky bottles sit a...
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Author Tracy Chevalier
Narrator Matheson Eve
Duration 8h
One cold January morning, two young sets of eyes... One pair belongs to smartly dressed Lavinia Waterhouse, whose mother clings to the traditional values she sees slipping away; the other to Maude Coleman, whose mother longs to escape the grip of Victorian society. Thrust together by the girls' friendship, these two very different families embark o...
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Author Tracy Chevalier
Narrator Vashti Maclachlan
Duration 8h 10m
A historical novel on the corruption of innocence, using the famous painting by Vermeer as an inspiration. Griet, the young daughter of a tilemaker in 17th century Holland, obtains her first job as a servant in Vermeer's household. Tracy Chevalier shows us, through Griet's eyes, the complicated family, the society of the small town of Delft, and li...
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