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  • Wartime Blues for the Harpers Girls

  • Welcome to Harpers Emporium, Book 5
  • By: Rosie Clarke
  • Narrated by: Polly Edsell
  • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (259 ratings)
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By: Rosie Clarke
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Summary

Friendship, tears, laughter and enduring love help the Harpers girls survive…

LONDON 1917

As the Americans enter the War, there is renewed energy in the war effort. With husbands and sons fighting for freedom, the women of Harpers are left to tackle the day-to-day affairs at home and work.

With Ben Harper away, Sally fears she is being followed by a mysterious woman. Who is she and what does she want?

Maggie Gibbs collapses seriously ill in the frontline hospitals and is brought back to England close to death. Can she be saved and what does the future hold for her and her broken heart?

Marion Jackson’s father is on the run from the Police already wanted for murder. She fears he will return to threaten his family once more. And Beth Burrows is pregnant with her second child, worried and anxious for her husband Jack, who has been many months at sea.

As Christmas 1917 approaches what will the future hold for Harpers, its girls and their men at War?

©2021 Rosie Clarke (P)2021 Boldwood Books Ltd

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Love it

Having gotten a little more use to the ascents of the characters I am loving the series still. The story lines are great

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totally hooked on these characters

didnt want this set to end 😓 i felt so invested needed to know more♥️

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Lovely story, once again.

Loved the story and I get really involved with what the girls are up to and hate how they just end when I want to know more lol. Excellent writing. However I will definitely be reading the next book myself. I don’t know what the narrator was up to but she just made them posher and posher during 3/4/5 and more annoyingly put punctuation in the wrong places and why give some of the characters speech impediments that sounded so false and overstated. Mind you Sadie seemed to have lost hers during this book. Freds voice turned in to a really gruff, grumpy voice and Cathy and Becky were given rough voices and as for the children’s voices!!

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Love the book hate the narration

I absolutely love this series, but the enjoyment is spoilt by the narration. Bring back Juliette Burton who read books 1 and 2. The characters changed in 3 onwards. Sally changed from working class to upper class and some of the voices are so high pitch it just spoils the story. There are a lot of characters with the same voices, so listening it becomes very difficult, if you lose where you are in the story. I don't feel as if this has been checked and given attention to detail. I'm not sure I can endure with book 6 on audible. Just plain awful narration, and yet narrators own voice is just lovely..

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Wartime Blues

So enjoyed the continuing journey of all who work in Harpers Store...beautiful stories and lovely characters

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can't wait for book 6

thoroughly enjoyed this series can't wait for the next book in the series to be available

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Terrible narration

It was painful listening most of the time making me wince in places
Change of narrator completely changed the characters in-fact totally lost them
I could only manage listening for a short while
Very disappointing as the first two books were great

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A hard review to write

I love the harper girls series, but I was seriously off put by the terrible narration. It made it super hard to listen to. The upper class voices were stilted and robotic sounding , almost sounded painful in places. the cockney characters were better, but overall I really had to push through the narration… try not to be put off… as I loved the storyline & series.

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Great Story - Narration is sadly not good

The continuation of the story is great. Sadly the narration is woefully inadequate. Goodness knows why they changed the narrator but having done so it seems that the new narrator and production team paid no attention to what has gone before. Sally Harper for instance has turned into an extremely well spoken aristocratic sounding lady when she is a Londoner. If the narrator had done her homework she should have continued with that. Despite being on the second book narrated by this narrator it is still driving me nuts and i will read future volumes instead which is a shame.

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Loved the book but bad narrator

Love all these books but the character accents changed and some of them in particular Sadie are really bad and very off putting

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