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The Butterfly Room
- Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie
- Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Summary
Full of her trademark mix of unforgettable characters and heartbreaking secrets, The Butterfly Room is the new spellbinding, multi-generational story from Sunday Times best seller Lucinda Riley.
Posy Montague is approaching her 70th birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an agonising decision.
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- cattle
- 16-06-19
slow start
this book is a very slow start but stick too it if you can it gets better and very good later in the book.
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- Airedaleman
- 31-05-19
My first ever review
I enjoyed the book as bizarrely I’m the same age as Posie and contemplating leaving a beloved garden.
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- Ancass
- 03-06-19
Far too many daaaaaaaaaarings!
I enjoyed the story but the reader was posher than the queen!
The writing sounded so frightfully frightfully upper class, every time Posy addressed someone it was daaaarling boy or daaaarling girl, so offputting. Do people still talk like that....I expected Noel Coward to make an appearance any minute and announce that pre-dinner cocktails would be served in the drawing room!
I stuck with it because the actual story was lovely with a neat ending.
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- Bridget Nodder
- 16-06-19
Disappointing
Very very ordinary story from one of my favourite writers. Hard to believe it was written by Lucinda Riley. No comparison with any of her previous work.
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- Claire bear
- 16-05-19
Not one of her best ....
I struggled to get into this one . It lacks a true focus and story journey for me .its a bit like filler , it did the job as I was gardening but not gripping in any shape or form.
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- Sharon Leverick
- 08-06-19
A nice change of story from 7 sisters
Wasn't sure at first having been quite disappointed with the last 7 sisters book but glad I persevered. Thoroughly enjoyed this book and sad to finish it. What a change to have a narrater with good diction and pleasing voice. The storyline is fairly predictable but certainly passed many, many dog walking hours. Would recommend if you want something easy to listen to and not over taxing on the brain!
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- Kate
- 03-07-20
Interesting read, irritating listen
A friend recommended this book as she had read it, but I thought I would get an audible version instead.
I have to say that the narrator almost put me off continuing with it! The story is told with flashbacks to the forties and fifties and starts with the main character as a young girl from a very priviledged background! The narrators portayal of this girl was very irritating! I persevered but came to realise that this particular voice was not as bad as some of the mens voices she did! Every man sounded the same and all had a gung-ho Jolly Hockeysticks manner to them. If she hadn't said "replied Sebastian" I would not know who had been speaking! The actress (and I use the term loosely) just seemed to read the story out in an over-enthusiastic loud way and failed to properly invoke the appropriate manner or emotions for the scene!
"Oh my darling girl!" said patronisingly by every man to every woman regardless of age or situation.
In 2006, even the son Nick, who had lived in Australia for the last ten years, sounded as if he was in a war time public information film! All the young & capable women characters sounded like simpering idiots!
I did like most of the characters (ones you were supposed to like) but the love scenes were cringey and the men seemed sleazy or desparate.
The number of times Posy made a cake or served a cup of tea was ridiculous, not to mention the copious consumption of alcohol by almost everyone in order to restore a bad situation to normal! (Well I suppose it does for some people).
Suffice to say I will be avoiding any other books by this narrator! I should have checked the sample first!
I think the editor/proof reader could have tweeked this a little too, to ireduce the cliches and repetition!
An experience!
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- Anonymous User
- 09-02-20
Most enjoyable
This is such an amazing and enjoyable story. I would recommend this book to everyone.
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-05-19
loved, loved loved
I really loved this book from start to end & never wanted it to end.
The narrator us also fabulous with all the different accents Male & female
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- Nicki John
- 26-10-19
Utterly brilliant!
OMGoodness! Loved, loved, LOVED this book! Nicolette McKenzie is one of the most talented narrator's I know , brilliantly bringing this clever story alive. I loved the way Lucinda Riley entwined past character stories with the current, with many delightfully surprising twists to keep me listening, far too long into the night! Thankfully Lucinda believes in a delicious love story, so this book left me wanting to follow the lives of all the characters in another book. Sad to do ish this story ... I would have loved to have a Posy in my life too! Thank you to all concerned for this superb book! 👏👏👏 x
5 people found this helpful
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- Lia
- 07-03-20
I Enjoyed The Book But!
My first Lucinda Riley book and it was a good listen. Hard to put down because the author has an awesome way of weaving so much into a story. I felt there were too many "darlings" in the story and I found it irritating that every character in the book used the term. But overall I did enjoy the book as most people did. I am going to start the Seven Sister Series.
Nicolette McKenzie was good with the delivery of the story.
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- Betty
- 30-08-19
Very good listen
This book caught my attention from the beginning & kept it throughout. The author wove the story well & kept me guessing. I was very pleased with the narrator as we know the narrator can make or break a book. This narrator was an asset!!
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- Karen
- 24-02-20
“He rapes and abuses me, but I must stand by my man”
I tried, I really did. Got half way through this audiobook but the predictability of the plot, the heavy smoker’s voice of the reader, but finally, the truly antiquated depiction of relationships between men and women just got too irksome. Can’t finish. Don’t care what happens to these benighted characters.
5 people found this helpful
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- louise
- 04-03-20
I love a good long book!
This book is 17 hours long and you will never be bored. I found myself almost obsessing over trying to figure out the mystery. I loved the thorough character development of every character in this book. . Now, I will have to read another book by Lucinda Riley.
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- Kindle Customer
- 21-08-19
Blasphemy
This was an excellent story and very well performed. Unfortunately t contains a LOT of blasphemy which to me is unacceptable. There are so many swear words to choose from, why take the name of someone's God in vain?
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- Tiffany Allred
- 06-07-20
Not her best.
I have loved many of her other books. This one didn’t get interesting until 14 hours in. And the narrator voice isn’t what I would have picked for this book.
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- Betty
- 23-05-19
Excellent
Excellent story. Great narration. Will look for more by the author as I enjoyed immensely
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- Lisa B
- 03-04-20
Somewhat long but a very enjoyable listen……
There is a lot of character development and it takes a long time to get to the heart of the story but it’s worth it in the end. Wonderful narration!
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- Selina
- 23-11-19
So good!!!!
Loved this book!!! Great story and the narration is superb. The story brings you in and you can’t stop listening .
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- Jennifer
- 25-05-19
Loved it!
Great story, interesting characters, and I loved the style that it was written in. Relatable, believable, and beautifully narrated.
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