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April Lady

By: Georgette Heyer
Narrated by: Tanya Reynolds
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Summary

Brought to you by Penguin. 

April Lady is read by Tanya Reynolds, star of Sex Education.

Nell Cardross and her husband are madly in love....

But they're very bad at showing it. While Nell believes her new husband, the Earl, married her out of convenience, Giles Cardross worries that his young wife is more interested in his money than his heart. 

And Nell's secretive and extravagant spending is becoming a problem.... 

As she attempts to pay off her brother's never-ending gambling debts and prevent the Earl's half-sister from eloping with a potentially ruinous match, will Nell's heart of gold lead her - and her marriage - into trouble? 

©1957 Georgette Heyer (P)2021 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

"If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store!" Harriet Evans

"One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's." (Joanne Harris)
 

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Lovely New Narrator

I’ve had the original narration of this book for sometime now and listened to it a number of times but it was never a favourite. However this time with the narration by Tanya Reynolds I enjoyed more than ever before. She brought the whole book alive for me and I discovered bits I don’t recall ever hearing before. It was a pleasure to listen to.

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entertaining

If you like a romantic, charming story, with believeable characters, this is for you. I really like this particular Georgette Heyer; the couple we are concerned about are already married, and it's an insight into difficult ways things were for both men and women then. A lovely supporting cast too, Felix is great. Reader is a little rapid; but gets the tone of dialogue right.

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So very disappointed

I could not get past the first chapter - The narration was appalling and completely spoiled it for me

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Sweet story, terrible narration

This is a sweet story I have always liked but the narration is truly dreadful. The voices of the different characters are poorly defined and the accents adopted frequently wobble. Cardross is particularly badly represented which is fairly disastrous. If the emphasis in a phrase is important there is a good chance that it will be wrong and there are a number of basic mispronunciations. The narration is too fast and yet there are some odd pauses which suggest the reader is seeing the text for the first time. What were the editors doing?

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Disappointing narration

This is a delightful story which was spoilt by the narration. There was no difference in the depiction of any of the characters. I put more effort into the characters in stories I read to!my granddaughters. Such a shame. I love novels and always picture the characters but this is difficult when they all sound the same.

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This is best narration of this book so far

I have a previous version of this audio book but it's hit and miss throughout the story.
As with another listeners review, most of this narration is much better than the previous one and brings out the best in the story

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My least favourite of Heyer's Regency stories.

Male protagonist underdeveloped and too few scenes between him Nell, particularly in the first half of the story. Good minor characters, as usual, and satisfactory ending.

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Amateur narrator spoiling an excellent story

The narrator could not differentiate between the different characters, her intonation was put in all the wrong places so the point was lost and the wrong emotion attributed to speeches, also far too fast and completely inappropriate pauses. If Penguin had hired a quality actor the story wouldn’t have been so bludgeoned and you could really get to know the character’s personalities as intended by the author. The story was excellent once you can learn to just listen to the words rather than the narrator.

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An excellent Regency story

Misunderstandings in the marriage of Lord and Lady Cardross lead to one disaster after another.
The feather brained teenage sister of Giles only makes matters worse.
Highly entertaining story and accurate description of the Regency era ❤❤❤❤

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I loved this book and the narrator was wonderful, I was so pulled in that I couldn't stop listening

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