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The Wildflowers
- Narrated by: Lucy Paterson
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
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Summary
The new novel by Sunday Times best seller Harriet Evans will transport you to a Dorset beach house, where you can feel the sand between your toes. Enter the home of Tony and Althea Wilde - the Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor of their generation and with a marriage every bit as stormy. This glorious tale of tangled family secrets and lies will leave you warm and glowing.
Tony and Althea Wilde. Glamorous, argumentative...adulterous to the core.
They were my parents, actors known by everyone. They gave our lives love and colour in a house by the sea - the house that sheltered my orphaned father when he was a boy.
But the summer Mads arrived changed everything. She too had been abandoned and my father understood why. We Wildflowers took her in.
My father was my hero, he gave us a golden childhood, but the past was always going to catch up with him...it comes for us all, sooner or later.
This is my story. I am Cordelia Wilde. A singer without a voice. A daughter without a father. Let me take you inside.
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- Max - Surrey
- 10-03-18
Got better and better. Bitter sweet story
Good pace, interesting characters. Beautiful descriptions.
The story line got stronger as the book went on. More than a holiday read x
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- Mrs CJ
- 14-08-18
Good story full of well drawn characters
I thoroughly enjoyed this story. Although it is long the story held my attention and I really enjoyed listening to Lucy Paterson. If you like very well written stories about eccentric families, you’ll really enjoy this one. I am going to look for more by this author and narrator.
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- Stephen
- 09-08-18
This is dull over written and contrived
The overview as published paints and picture of an interesting story woven around a interesting and alternative family. Actually reads like a children’s book. The author seems to like descriptions of quaint seaside scenes rather than plot. A combination of the text and the reader, suggested the author has read too many Enid Blyton books. So dull and annoying that I can’t finish it.
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- Clare
- 05-08-18
Not what you see on the surface
A great family story with lots of underlying stories, everyone had their own tail and perspective on what has, is happening
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- Belinda
- 01-11-19
Absolutely wonderful
Very well narrated and excellent storyline; didn’t want it to end and will probably listen to it again and again. I’m not usually one for compliments but had to take the time to review this. 10/10
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- Anonymous User
- 20-08-21
Good, but not my favourite by this author.
For me the storyline was a bit so so. The plot seemed to keep losing its way. Not the best by this great author but fabulously narrated.
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- Lia Steinson
- 28-05-20
Atmospheric
Creative, absorbing and intriguing story with wonderful characters. The house and lifestyle by the sea are magical.
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- Ann Marie Foster
- 06-01-20
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Great story - full of intrigue I didn’t want to stop listening
Poignant too
Well read
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- Jackie
- 07-06-19
A delightful ‘read’
I was looking for a light summer book when I chose The Wildflowers & it turned out to be so much more. Multi layered, spanning decades between WW11 & 2015, & centred on a wooden beach house at the edge of the sea in Dorset. I thought it was extremely well researched with believable & well drawn characters with real poignancy but without mawkish sentiment! I am sorry it is finished & I will look for more of Harriet Evans books.
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- movie buff
- 09-05-19
slow burn but brilliant
narrated beautifully very slow burn story but worth sticking with it to the end .wonderful characters very moving really brought the book to life
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