Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
In Pale Battalions
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
99p for the first 3 months
Buy Now for £15.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Summary
Six months after the sudden death of her husband, Leonora Galloway sets out on a trip to France with her daughter Penelope. At last the time has come when secrets can be shared and explanations begin....
Leonora takes her daughter to the battlefields of WW1, where her father is commemorated on the Thiepval Monument. But the date of his death is surprising and reveals that Captain John Hallows cannot possibly have been Leonora's real father.
This is only the start of a series of revelations that span three generations of a distinguished aristocratic family who are not what they seem. Penelope must piece together a tale of war, of loss, of greed, deception and vice - and the perpetrator of a murder left unsolved for more than half a century....
More from the same
What listeners say about In Pale Battalions
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Mrs Maureen Cate
- 18-10-19
Superb...
I read this book many years ago and recall my younger self being moved by the content and awed by the writer’s skill. I think I now own every book Robert Goddard has written. This audio production is superb and brought the story to life through the stunning narration. If only I could have given ten stars for the performance...
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
10 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Jebbabeano
- 02-04-20
Twisty
The usual Goddard fare. Twisty as a sack of snakes, elegantly English and wonderfully well written.
Always a joy
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
8 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Ainslie
- 02-02-18
Superb
By far Mr Goddard's best book!
Perfectly structured, full of surprises and very moving. Brilliant.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
6 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Denise Newman
- 12-02-21
Waffly, extra-convoluted story
Disappointingly inflated length, although core plot is good. The long-windedness dilutes any impact the story may, otherwise have had.
Diabolical character accents and voices. The narration will cause you to wince time and again
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
5 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Mrs C R Polley
- 23-05-20
Excellent
My first experience of a Robert Goddard book on audible, I have thoroughly enjoyed the story and found the narration excellent.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Mrs
- 05-03-19
Good story
This is a very good story but the narration is very annoying with over emphasised voices
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
4 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- L. H. De Laune
- 13-05-21
There should be a higher rating for such excellent stories
I wish I could award a higher than 5 star rating. I could become lost in Robert Goddard’s genius for story telling, all day long.
This one was no disappointment- enchanting, enthralling and gave me such pleasure to loose myself in his narrative.
So many books sound outdated without all the modern conveniences we take for granted now- but I never noticed the lack of them at all thank you Mr Goddard .
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Ian
- 12-03-20
wonderful!!! great!!!
not to be missed one of the best of goddards sorry to finish this book
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
3 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Anonymous User
- 20-05-21
Sub standard and terrible narration
This is the 7th Goddard book I listen. If it were the first I would not have bothered with more. The story was repetitive and unsatisfactory. The narrator was extremely woeful making characters speak like they were actors in a pantomime. There are much better Goddard books than this one
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- Sally
- 04-05-21
Quite compelling
I normally read crime and police and criminal stuff, and the like, so this could not have been more different.
It is very much in the vein of Julian Fellowes and Belgravia, another book I throughly enjoyed.
This is basically the story of a woman who's life was blighted by her illigitamacy and was punished for her fathers apparant desertion and her mothers perceived behaviour. She is tracing the truth of their and her past, with her now grown up daughter by her side.
The truth at the time was shameful and the cruelty of her "step grandmother is absolutely deplorable.
It is very well written and you can watch as she traces it all back and finally reaches the truth. It has avein of Sidney Carton from Charles Dickens' Tale of two cities.
It wasn't a thriller, just a tale being tols and the truth of the effects that war had on soldiers and the unappreciated post tarumatic stress that war caused and wasn't understood or allowed in those days,
I just enjoyed it.
Give it a go..
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
2 people found this helpful