Sprig Muslin
Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance
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Narrated by:
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Amelia Donkor
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By:
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Georgette Heyer
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
He thought he could set her on a better path. But they might both wander astray....
Sir Gareth Ludlow never truly recovered from the death of his fiancée. Years later, a chance encounter with Amanda, a young and devastatingly pretty runaway, inspires him to try to do the right thing and to set her on a path towards a good life.
But Sir Gareth has been neck-deep in a life of debauchery and hedonism ever since his fiancée's death, and Amanda's startlingly lively imagination proves to be more than he'd bargained for. As they both become increasingly entangled in Sir Gareth's scheme, it seems more and more difficult for either of them to lead the life they should....
A witty and delightful historical novel, Sprig Muslin shows why Georgette Heyer has such a huge and devoted readership to this day.
©1956 Georgette Heyer (P)2021 Penguin AudioWhat listeners say about Sprig Muslin
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- Anonymous User
- 17-07-23
Awful narration and lacklustre story
Not sure which was worse the narration or the story itself. Either way the terrible robotic narration, the main (spoiled female teenage) character who needed a whack in the face combined to achieve a lacklustre audio book. I tried the narration at various different speeds which normally improves things but it certainly didn’t fix things on this one. I likened the narration style to be similar to that heard by under 8’s in school story time. Half expected the narrator to say at the close of the book ‘and that children is the end’ in a sing song teacher voice.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-09-24
The A.I. Reading this is absolutely appalling.
I love Geargette Heyer but I am fed up that Audible has chosen to use an A. I. voice. It’s a bonkers and annoying rendition. No. No no!
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- Anonymous User
- 15-07-21
Badly narrated
Very sad that the book was read with so many mistakes/mispronunciations, as others have noticed. It was really distracting!
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- Anonymous User
- 11-04-24
Light regency romance
One of Georgette Heyer’s light, tangled regency Romances - a relaxing read. Unfortunately the narration was appalling.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-07-24
Tangled tale
I love this story but do not think you will get a performance. It is a competently read book but not voice acted. I think this should be made plain in the audio write up
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- Anonymous User
- 29-06-22
Classic Heyer let down by poor narration
Heyer never disappoints but this reading did. Poor choice of emphasis on so many words and just odd phrasing and rhythms that jarred and were simply incorrect in places. Very odd that no one spotted this in editing and that this wasn’t corrected.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-11-23
Oh dear
This is one of my favourite Georgette Heyer stories. The heroine is brilliantly funny, the narrative full of sparkle and wit.
Unfortunately, the narration is stilted, with some sentences so badly read that the meaning is lost. Certainly there is no real sense of the story here.
I wish that there was some real quality control on Audible. It’s not good enough to just read words. There must be much more to it than that. Please only use narrators who understand the books and actually can convey the humour.
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- Mixdell
- 05-10-23
Appalling narrator
Even by a usual standard of terrible narration, this one wins all the prizes. Flat and monotonous, unable to pronounce the simplest words - who pronounced puss as pus??? The narrator is a very poor reader, and by no means meets even a basic standard for narration. She doesn’t understand the characters and so her intonation and timing is completely wrong. Sir Gareth’s charm, Lady Hester’s gentle humour, Amanda’s vivacity, Hildebrand’s passion, all complete lost. A wonderfully funny and timeless story is rendered null and void by the wrong choice of narrator. I will avoid anything read by this narrator in the future. So disappointed that there appears to be so little quality control within Audible.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-06-24
Disappointing narration of this fun story
The narrator really let this book down. The wit and banter of the characters is lost and there are so many words which are mispronounced. I hope this gets rerecorded with someone that can do the story justice as it’s a fun read with lots of laugh out loud moments.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-06-23
Very poor narration
This is one of Heyer’s most charming and funny stories but it was ruined for me by very poor narration. Dreadful pronunciation (e.g. Mama, Papa, valise, whooping cough, liefer - these are just a few) but the author’s punctuation was not followed; and overall it was just very flat and monotonous in tone. Disappointing, because many in this series have been very well narrated. Please have this one re-recorded with a better narrator.
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