The Chaperone
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The Chaperone
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Narrated by:
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Elizabeth McGovern
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By:
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Laura Moriarty
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Laura Moriarty's The Chaperone, read by the actress Elizabeth McGovern, best-known for her role as Cora, Countess of Grantham, in the hit TV series Downton Abbey.
On a summer's day in 1922, Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago.
She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her 15 years. This girl is hungry for stardom, and Cora is hungry for something she doesn't yet know.
Cora will be many things in her lifetime - an orphan, a mother, a wife, a mistress - but in New York she is a chaperone and her life is about to change. It is here, under the bright lights of Broadway, in a time when prohibition reigns and speakeasies with their forbidden whispers behind closed doors thrive, that Cora finds what she has been searching for. It is here, in a time when illicit thrills and daring glamour sizzle beneath the laws of propriety that her life truly begins. It is here that Cora and her charge, Louise Brooks, take their first steps towards their dreams.
©2012 Laura Moriarty (P)2012 Penguin AudioListeners also enjoyed...
Frothy nostalgic fun
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Would you consider the audio edition of The Chaperone to be better than the print version?
I don't know, as I haven't read it.What was one of the most memorable moments of The Chaperone?
The private moments between Cora and Joseph are so carefully and sensitively portrayed. Understated, but laiden with love and understanding.Have you listened to any of Elizabeth McGovern’s other performances? How does this one compare?
No, but I will seek them out. Her reading is exquisiteAny additional comments?
Riveting listening, I hated having to put my ipod down.Breathtaking
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Was not sure about this as I started to listen. But in the end I was drawn in. A very unusual theme, that played out not in a way I was expecting. A good listen.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No. Several sessions,Any additional comments?
Would recommend this for a different read.Interesting
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Brilliant
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Louise Brooks escape from the mid west to New York to train for the stage as a dancer.
Told by the middle aged chaperone who accompanies her to escape her unhappy marriage, she discovers love for the first time with a German immigrant who she dislikes on sight while revisiting the convent she was left in as an orphan.
Louise is determined to succeed and never return home and the chaperone does not want to either. She is on a mission to discover her origins from the convent and leaves happier with her new lover and lives happily ? ever after. . .in a new frame of mind with a freer attitude learned from Louise whose love of life, intelligence and energy sparkle; gives the chaperone courage to make demands at home and live her life the way she wants, instead of conforming to the narrow confines of housewifery and non sex life with her homosexual husband.
Fast, jazz hot, sweltering New York leaps off the page as does the slow pace of small town America where everyone knows your business. The book delves into black segregation on
Broadway and immigrant poverty, middle class hypocrisy, alcoholism, unhappy marriage and church.
I absolutely loved it.
America 1926 Louise Brooks early years in New York
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