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The Queen of New Beginnings

By: Erica James
Narrated by: Juanita McMahon
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Clayton Miller's life is a mess. His career as one of the country's best comedy script writers has stalled, and his long term girlfriend has left him for his ex best friend and ex writing partner. Just when he thinks his life couldn't get any worse, he commits a spectacularly public fall from grace, and with the press hounding him, his agent banishes him to the middle of nowhere until the dust has settled.

At a remote country house he meets Alice. Alice Shoemaker is a voiceover artist who habitually goes to great lengths to avoid telling the truth. After agreeing to help out a friend, by shopping and cleaning for the unknown man staying at Cuckoo House, she soon becomes suspicious that her strange and obnoxiously rude client has something to hide. But equally so does she. When they discover the truth about each other they form an unlikely friendship, but then Alice discovers Clayton has betrayed her in the worst possible way.

©2009 Erica James (P)2010 W F Howes Ltd Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Feel-Good Funny Heartfelt Witty

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A very nice book that I thoroughly enjoyed!

The Queen of New Beginnings

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The thing that most spoiled the book for me was the narrator's habit of pausing in the wrong part of the sentence. It was as if she hadn't read ahead and paused where it made sense initially, only to discover there was another bit of the sentence that changed the meaning.

Book OK, narration bad

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Very good story, quite a lot of comedy and brought to life by excellent story telling

Excellent narrator

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A fantastic read and a great rendition by Juanita McMahon. I couldn't stop listening to this story, and was even up in the night to hear what would happen next.

Another great story

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I've loved everything about this book, the story and the narration were excellent. Sorry that it's come to an end 😥

Best book I've listened to for ages!

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