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Sprig Muslin

Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

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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 Audio Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Regency Regency Romance Romance Witty

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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.

Very poor narration

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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.

Appalling narrator

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The narration was dreadful. She could have been reading out a laundry list. Wrong pronunciation throughout.

Charming story

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I love Georgette Heyer’s novels, but this one was let fone by a narrator that seemed to have no idea how to pronounce several ordinary words and left oddly long pauses between sentences at times. The most irritating was her inability to pronounce mama and papa. She said them as ‘mamma’ and ‘papper’, which seemed almost American, and weirdly at odds with general understanding of how these would be pronounced by the upper classes at the time (or even now). Very disappointing listening as a result of the many poor pronounciations. Does nobody check these things before they are made available for sale?

Weird pronounciation. Is it narrator’s second language?

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Like many, many reviewers, I think the narration didn't do justice to the writing. Not only was Georgette Heyer's wit badly served, but no one had checked how to pronounce the place names. Come on Penguin!

At least check place names!

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The narration made this a torture to listen to. I have problems with my eyes so can no longer physically read the books which have supported me through life. Sadly Audible will not take the trouble to find someone who will make the effort to do even minimal research into pronouncing the period words which make Heyer’s work such a joy to many of us! This lady didn’t even check on pronouncing place names correctly! The only reason I struggled through it was because I have no alternative - but I spent a great deal of time shouting corrections at my iPad!!!

I have always enjoyed Georgette Heyer’s writing and loved this book

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As usual, a fun and thoroughly enjoyable book by Georgette Heyer.
Unfortunately, the narrator was not good. Her voices are great and it's easy to distinguish between characters in the dialogue, but she stops for commas making the flow disjointed and broken. It became very annoying. If you can manage to ignore / cope with this, then give it a go - you can always return the book if it's just too much to cope with!

Clunky narration lets this book down

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The narrator does not seem to know how to pronounce the words correctly and this ruins a really good story which I have enjoyed reading in the past. Georgette Heuer is one of my favourite authors and I love listening to most of her audio books, but this one is ruined.

Awful narration

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This is a long time favourite Heyer book. The reader managed to mispronounce too many words and to obliterate the humour of the novel in her delivery. Because of failing eyesight I chose to buy the audiobook and very much looked forward to enjoying it again. I feel let down.

Very disappointing performance

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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.

Disappointing narration of this fun story

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