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  • By: Ellie Dean
  • Narrated by: Marlene Sidaway
  • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (85 ratings)
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With Hope and Love

By: Ellie Dean
Narrated by: Marlene Sidaway
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Summary

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Cliffehaven, 1945

The war in Europe is over, but for Peggy Reilly and the residents of Beach View Boarding House the effects of the conflict are still far-reaching.

Cockney evacuee, Ivy, and her sweetheart, Andy, are saving to get married and fulfil their dream of returning to the East End. But when tragedy strikes, Ivy is faced with a life-changing dilemma that only she can resolve.

Rita also faces an impossible choice when her sweetheart Peter proposes and asks her to live with him in Australia – just as her widowed father returns from the fighting in Europe.

Meanwhile Peggy must say goodbye to several of her evacuee chicks whilst she awaits the return of her family from Somerset and the news that her husband, Jim, can finally come home.

It’s a dream she’s held onto for six long years, but fate has one more twist in store.

©2019 Ellie Dean (P)2019 Penguin Audio

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Worst book in the series.

I have really enjoyed all the 16 books in the series. The stories have been great and hard to but down. After each book I could not wait for the next one. However, having purchased the latest book (17) I can not stand the voice of the narrator. This has really spoiled the whole story as I just can not listen to it and I was so looking forward to buying book 17.

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Totally ruined by narration

Impossible to give a true review of the story line as I was distracted by the most appalling narration . I was so looking forward to this title coming over to my Library. I just cannot understand why you would change a narrator so far into a series of excellent books . The Irish and Australian accents were almost laughable And the dreadful monotone reading was distracting .
I would recommend that you perhaps read this book rather than listen as I’m sure you will find it much more enjoyable .

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Disappointed

I am partially sighted so listen to all the books I read with the Audible app. I have read every one of the Cliffhaven series in this way and have loved the stories and characters. Even though there have been two or three different narrators in the previous books it has always been easy to recognise the different characters so that you know who is speaking at any time. This makes it almost like listening to a radio play rather than having a book read to you, however I was so disappointed with this penultimate book in the series as Marlene Sidaway is a new narrator in these books and there is virtually no difference between how each character sounds to the extent that you cannot tell who has made which comment in a conversation or even if it is a male or female character speaking. The only person who sounded vaguely like they had in the other books was Ron, but when an accent was used mostly it came out slightly American irrespective of if the person was Australian or Irish or Canadian. I do so hope that a different narrator is used for the final book in the series which I am looking forward to very much even though I will be sad at the end as it has been a marvellous series and has kept me entertained and has taught me a lot about things that went on during the Second World War. Thank you Ellie Dean for such an entertaining and interesting series.

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Love this series.

I really enjoyed this series however could not take to the storyteller. I much preferred the other readers of the story.

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narrator not good

natrator left much to be desired spoliling the story bring back the story teller from prevoius books in series

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Terrible Narration

This was such a disappointment not the story or the characters and the series is one of my favourites but the narration was terrible. Didn’t capture the characters at all. Really wish this would be re recorded with Julie narrating.

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Bad narration good story!

Over the years the narrator has changed several times for this series, this in itself is jarring when you bocome accustomed to one persons interpretation, however so far I have always enjoyed the narration of these stories, until now! A very poor choice of new narrator for this book as ruined it for me, I have tried to listen to it but it is awful so gave up and bought the book and read it the old fashioned way. I am sad at this as I always enjoyed listening to these on a dog walk. I do hope they get julie masiey back on board for the last book!

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I'm so sorry but....

.… this narrator is just not suitable for the Cliffhaven Series! The different accents needed are just not there and it was a struggle to listen to a very boring and unenthusiastic voice but did continue to the end as I love these stories and prefer to listen rather than sit down and read. It's an escape from doing hum drum jobs like ironing, and getting lost in the story. It makes it a more pleasurable experience. I much prefer Annie Aldington (my favourite narrator) or Julie Maisey. Hopefully one of them will be able to narrate the next book.

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Story terrific but.....

The story as usual was Ellie Dean’s brilliant account of the family at Cliffehaven. However the narrator was very disappointing, nowhere near as accomplished as the previous narrators of the Cliffehaven series. I fervently hope Ms Sidaway is not given the task on the final book in the series.

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Narrator not good

I have listened to all of the Ellie Dean stories so far all been fantastic apart from this one the narrator was awful and did not match the parts as you had expected from the other books in the past.

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