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- TommyBurn
- 23-05-17
beautiful story form new author
Loved this intimate story of people's lives, passions, compassion and struggles to survive. This is a very personal tale set against a backdrop of history's most earth shattering periods
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- A teacher mum
- 15-09-16
Beautifully written
A fascinating and touching subject; this was utterly compelling from start to finish, with truly lovely turns of phrase and well rounded characters.
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- JenPeter
- 21-05-16
Refunded
This may well have been a great book but sadly I couldn't cope with the narration. The delivery was painfully slow, so much so, that it made it impossible for me to follow the story. I listened to about half an hour but then applied for a refund.