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As war moves ever closer, the sleepy English village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. The nightly German air raids become grimly mundane. Rationing curtails every comfort. Men leave to fight and die. And five women forge a bond of friendship that will change their lives forever in this engrossing novel of loyalty, loss, and love in the shadow of World War II.

With the hardships of war intensifying every day, the women band together to defeat formidable enemies and find remarkable strength within themselves to help one another. It is a war-forged loyalty certain to endure years and distance. When four of the women return for a celebration 50 years later, their mission is not simply to commemorate or remember. They’ve returned to confront a traitor whose actions cost countless lives — and to avenge one of their own at last.

©2011 Heley Bryan (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc. Fiction Historical Fiction War Holocaust
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Totally loved listening to this - once I got past the Americanism English accents! The story was convoluted and engaging, whilst also being a people story with plenty of characters to get to know. :-)

loved it!

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Fabulous at every level story, characters, narrator, one of best I've listened to. Couldn't stop listening
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fabulous

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I don’t know if I really enjoyed this book. The story was good, with plenty of action and some interesting insights, but the narrator’s grasp of English accents was awful!! Given that the book was largely set in the south of England, and needed someone who was proficient in a variety of English accents, it is amazing that the producers selected an American as the narrator. It rather spoiled the experience for me.

Great story: terrible accents!

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I thoroughly enjoyed this story and glad I stuck with it. However, I hate to say anything derogatory about narrators because I think they do a fantastic job, but this one - oh dear, she is obbviously American and her own accent was fine. Her english accents were dreadful, so much so, that if the story had not been enjoyable I would have given up. It was a shame really if she had just read it in her own accent all the way through it would probably have been better.

Really enjoyable story

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A really good story of wartime romances and losses but such cringeworthy English accents and pronunciation! It was quite distracting at times...
A good twist in the tale!

Great story, cringeworthy accents!

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