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Wallis: My War: A Novel
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LENGTH5 hrs and 46 mins
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RELEASE DATE29/09/2011
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Program TypeAudiobook
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Publisher's Summary
She was the first person to be named Woman of the Year by Time magazine, and yet Wallis Simpson remains one of the most reviled women in history. The social-climbing divorcee is remembered as a snob and voluptuary who came close to destroying the British monarchy. But could she have been the pawn of Allied statesmen determined to remove a Nazi sympathiser from the throne?
This memoir, found in her former Paris home, is said to have been written in the Duchess' own hand. And although the Duchess is a highly unreliable narrator, Kate Auspitz, an American historian, is a meticulous scholar, supplying pages of endnotes that ground the story firmly in published recollections of the major figures of the time. The plot rests on little-known historical details that make Wallis's role in the events entirely plausible.
©2010 Kate Auspitz (P)2011 Audible Ltd
What the Critics Say
"Lorelei King is astonishing. I thought I was listening to my better self when I heard the introduction to Wallis: My War , written in my voice, read in hers." (Kate Auspitz)
"An ingenious twist and just as plausible as the well-researched reality this fictional account deftly uses." (Daily Mail)
"These impeccably researched faux memoirs capture the louche glamour of the couple's honeymoon years, the anxieties surrounding the abdication - Wallis's desire to be queen stymied by Duff Cooper and Harold Nicolson - and their wartime internment in the Bahamas." (The Lady)
"erudite, subversive ... witty..." (Observer)
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What Members Say
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"Spoken like Wallis Presumably"
Always one for a biography, I chose Wallis My War for an insight into the woman that caused the abdication of the king. Written from her point of view was the clever bit. I enjoyed the regular ramblings from the woman's point of view, the details of what was her life in relation to his. I did find the voice very irritating at first that I did not listen to it for a while. However I had another go with the presumption that this is what she probably sounded like. Ir is worth persevering with. This is my first audio book, perhaps I am not quite ready to stop reading the printed versions yet, not sure if I ever will as it was not a very enjoyable experience.
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"I needed to be in the mood for this"
I am still not sure if I have truly given this a fair rating as I think the narrator put me off listening to a good story line. I found it hard to be objective and remove the voice from the story. Apologies but this wasn't for me. Perhaps listen on another day maybe a different outcome.
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"An unusual perspective on a controversial woman"
This is a vivid and engrossing, albeit fictional, account of how the Duchess of Windsor was used as a pawn by the Anglo-Franco-American alliance, first to get a king to abdicate and then to spread disinformation amongst the Axis, via Ribbentrop. Not a book you can stop listening to easily.
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