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The Photographer's Wife
- Narrated by: Joan Walker
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Summary
Jerusalem, 1920: in an already fractured city, 11-year-old Prudence feels the tension rising as her architect father launches an ambitious and wildly eccentric plan to redesign the Holy City by importing English parks to the desert.
Prue, known as the 'little witness', eavesdrops underneath the tables of tearooms and behind the curtains of the dance halls of the city's elite, watching everything but rarely being watched herself. Around her, British colonials, exiled Armenians and German officials rub shoulders as they line up the pieces in a political game: a game destined to lead to disaster.
When Prue's father employs a British pilot, William Harrington, to take aerial photographs of the city, Prue is uncomfortably aware of the attraction that sparks between him and Eleanora, the English wife of a famous Jerusalem photographer. And after Harrington learns that Eleanora's husband is a nationalist intent on removing the British, those sparks are fanned dangerously into a flame.
Years later, in 1937, Prue is an artist living a reclusive life by the sea with her young son when Harrington pays her a surprise visit. What he reveals unravels her world, and she must follow the threads that lead her back to secrets long ago buried in Jerusalem.
The Photographer's Wife is a powerful story of betrayal: between father and daughter, between husband and wife, and between nations and people, set in the complex period between the two world wars.
Critic reviews
"A delicate yet gutsy spirit of adventure pervades its pages.... Joinson writes with a control and vivacity that fires our own dreams of flight." (Emylia Hall, author of The Book of Summers)
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- Julia Stevenson
- 13-11-16
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The narration of this book is the most ridiculous I've heard. The narrator runs on sentences and speaks in a constantly modulating pitch that is so grating and makes so little sense that I can't bear to listen. I tried to stick with it but gave up after 12 chapters. And that was good going. I have very little idea of how good the book is because the narration is so distracting.
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- LindzK
- 14-01-17
confusing story with characters I didn't care for
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
The story didn't go anywhere, and I'm rather cross that I simply didn't stop listening.
I found the way the story flipped between the two times a bit confusing, and I simply didn't Sam to any of the character in it.
I was hoping the history element would help, but it didn't.
Has The Photographer's Wife put you off other books in this genre?
No it hasn't, but I think I will read more reviews first. The only review on audible complained about the narrator, but actually she was fine. It was the content of the story that bored me.
Which scene did you most enjoy?
None.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disappointment
Any additional comments?
I've heard that this author is very good, so probably just a bad book but I certainly wasted my time listening to this.
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