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One Summer in Italy
- Narrated by: Helen Johns
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Humour & Satire
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- Evie Bradbury
- 26-10-18
Truly wonderful
A wonderful story from start to finish, Helen Johns will always be Sofia to me.
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- NellMcMH
- 27-04-21
I forgot about the reader...
...after a while because I wanted to know how the loose ends would tie up, but her voice was too light, plus the melodrama she included,. unnecessarily on the whole, in my opinion. Otherwise, ignoring the very childishness of the 18 year old (or are they like that these days?) it was a neat, satisfactory story
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- Rita Z.
- 25-11-20
Unputdowable.
As I got into the story, I could not put the book down. Definately a good read.
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- Nicpik
- 09-10-19
Loved it!
A feel good story.
Especially found the interview at the end really interesting.
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- Mrs Jennifer Pratt
- 12-12-18
Loved it. An easy listen.
Easy listening with a thoroughly modern storyline. A writer new to me but one I would listen to again.
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- Chris B
- 28-05-18
Not Sue Moorcoffs best
Narrators voices irritating and almost wobbly. Very disappointed with story line.
Hope the next one is better.
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- Janet Jones
- 20-02-22
A lovely.....
storyline with some very good details of the surrounding area making you feel like you were there with some lovely characters within the book as well. The narrator was very good at using different voices for the characters.
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- Caroline
- 07-05-20
Predictable and long winded
Uninterested characters. Very 2 dimensional. No plot twists and story could have been told in half the time.
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- Jane Austen
- 18-11-19
Narration key it down
The overall story was good but the narration was poor, staccato and quite irritating. Disappointed.