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With Hope and Love

By: Ellie Dean
Narrated by: Marlene Sidaway
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Cliffehaven, 1945

The war in Europe is over, but for Peggy Reilly and the residents of Beach View Boarding House the effects of the conflict are still far-reaching.

Cockney evacuee, Ivy, and her sweetheart, Andy, are saving to get married and fulfil their dream of returning to the East End. But when tragedy strikes, Ivy is faced with a life-changing dilemma that only she can resolve.

Rita also faces an impossible choice when her sweetheart Peter proposes and asks her to live with him in Australia – just as her widowed father returns from the fighting in Europe.

Meanwhile Peggy must say goodbye to several of her evacuee chicks whilst she awaits the return of her family from Somerset and the news that her husband, Jim, can finally come home.

It’s a dream she’s held onto for six long years, but fate has one more twist in store.

©2019 Ellie Dean (P)2019 Penguin Audio 20th Century Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction
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I have listened to all the previous books in this series and loved them all. I am saddened to say that I really couldn’t follow the ‘Cliffhaven’ saga with this narrator, she was awful. She just read the words printed, there were no ‘storytelling’ to it. Overall very disappointing.
Onwards to book number 18 in the series with whom I know is an excellent narrator, Julia Maisey.

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I have loved every book in this series so far but this one was ruined by the reader who not only sounded far too elderly to imitate the voices of the younger characters but had no idea about pronouncing different accents. There were even several occasions when the accents attempted were given to the wrong character. Such a pity. I only hope she isn’t narrating the final book.

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I am partially sighted so listen to all the books I read with the Audible app. I have read every one of the Cliffhaven series in this way and have loved the stories and characters. Even though there have been two or three different narrators in the previous books it has always been easy to recognise the different characters so that you know who is speaking at any time. This makes it almost like listening to a radio play rather than having a book read to you, however I was so disappointed with this penultimate book in the series as Marlene Sidaway is a new narrator in these books and there is virtually no difference between how each character sounds to the extent that you cannot tell who has made which comment in a conversation or even if it is a male or female character speaking. The only person who sounded vaguely like they had in the other books was Ron, but when an accent was used mostly it came out slightly American irrespective of if the person was Australian or Irish or Canadian. I do so hope that a different narrator is used for the final book in the series which I am looking forward to very much even though I will be sad at the end as it has been a marvellous series and has kept me entertained and has taught me a lot about things that went on during the Second World War. Thank you Ellie Dean for such an entertaining and interesting series.

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I have been really enjoying this series of books - until this one. Had it not for wanting the hear the rest of the Cliffhaven series, I would have returned this book after the first hour.

I will look for this narrator when looking for other books - and avoid her.

Narration was very poor

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I have read....and listened to all the Cliffehaven books. Superb apart from this one...the reader is ruining the story!! I sincerely hope she isn’t doing the final one!!

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