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The Executioner's Song
- By: Norman Mailer
- Narrated by: Maxwell Hamilton
- Length: 42 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance45
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Story44
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, a convicted killer becomes the first prisoner to be executed in the United States. The Executioner's Song follows the true story of cold-blooded murderer Gary Gilmore, who, after being tried and convicted, insisted on being executed for his crimes. To do...
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Just as good as reading it.
- By aleisha on 27-09-21
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The Executioner's Song
- Narrated by: Maxwell Hamilton
- Length: 42 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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Little
- By: Edward Carey
- Narrated by: Bronwen Price
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall73
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Performance62
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Story62
Born in Alsace in 1761, the unsightly, diminutive Marie Grosholtz is quickly nicknamed ‘Little’. Orphaned at the age of six, she finds employment in Bern, Switzerland, under the charge of reclusive anatomist Dr Curtius. In time the unlikely pair form an unlikely bond, and together they pursue an unusual passion: the fine art of wax modelling. Forced to flee their city, the doctor and his protégée head for the seamy streets of Paris, where they open an exhibition hall for their uncanny creations.
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Gory at times, a good historical read
- By RMF on 06-09-20
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Little
- Narrated by: Bronwen Price
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-10-19
- Language: English
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The Dressmaker’s Secret
- By: Lorna Cook
- Narrated by: Imogen Wilde
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance52
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'I cried my eyes out' Reader review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1941, Nazi-occupied Paris: In the glamorous Ritz hotel there is a woman with a dangerous secret… As Coco Chanel’s assistant, Adèle lives side by side with German officers in the splendour of The Ritz hotel. But Adèle has a secret. She is...
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Wrong narrator for fascinating novel
- By Prof P. M. King on 25-09-23
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The Dressmaker’s Secret
- Narrated by: Imogen Wilde
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-02-22
- Language: English
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The Titanic Letters
- A BBC Radio 4 drama collection
- By: Various
- Narrated by: Full Cast, Ciarán Hinds, Gloria Hunniford, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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42 letters written by Titanic passengers and crew, plus two documentaries relating survivors' stories and bringing the tragedy to life through the voices of the wireless operators The largest, most luxurious liner in the world, the RMS Titanic captured the public's imagination. But four days...
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The Titanic Letters
- A BBC Radio 4 drama collection
- Narrated by: Full Cast, Ciarán Hinds, Gloria Hunniford, Patrick Kielty, Eamonn Holmes, Amanda Burton, Frances Tomelty, Paul Rankin
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 13-01-22
- Language: English
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Impostor of Rome
- The First Emperor Series, Book 1
- By: Terry Cloutier
- Narrated by: Scott Fleming
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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For fans of Conn Iggulden, Ben Kane, and Simon Scarrow comes a spellbinding tale of adventure and unshakeable friendship from the author of the bestselling Wolf of Corwick Castle Series. If you liked Hadrack of Corwick, you will love Marcus Agrippa!
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Great story
- By Christine on 31-05-26
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Impostor of Rome
- The First Emperor Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Scott Fleming
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 27-01-26
- Language: English
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The Queen of Paris
- A Novel of Coco Chanel
- By: Pamela Binnings Ewen
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance34
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Story34
Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style - the iconic little black dress - and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII - as discovered in recently unearthed wartime files.
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A Self Absorbed Woman
- By gille on 28-09-23
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The Queen of Paris
- A Novel of Coco Chanel
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 07-04-20
- Language: English
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An Audience with Barry Cryer
- By: Barry Cryer
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Abridged
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Overall40
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Performance28
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Story28
The first in what will become the quintessential list of the best of live British comedy, AN AUDIENCE WITH BARRY CRYER brings you up close and personal with one of bastions of British comedy in this live recording of his sellout comedy tour. Available for the first time as a downloadable audio...
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Be prepared to laugh aloud......
- By Bob on 30-05-13
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An Audience with Barry Cryer
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Release date: 05-07-05
- Language: English
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Jigsaw
- By: Sybille Bedford
- Narrated by: Siân Thomas
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989, Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education is a semi-autobiographical novel that tells the story of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the two World Wars. Upon the death of her German baron father, Billi moves from the family château to live with her vibrant and erratic English mother on the French Riviera. From there she is sent for schooling in England, where she lives an itinerant life, boarding among a bohemian crowd, attending galleries and public lectures, and reading some of the greatest books of the era.
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a great autobiographical intellectual novel!
- By Rachel Redford on 12-05-23
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Jigsaw
- Narrated by: Siân Thomas
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 14-02-23
- Language: English
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Cloister of Whispers
- Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, Book 6
- By: J. G. Lewis
- Narrated by: Madeleine Brolly
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance17
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This series features a real historical figure—the formidable Ela Longespée. The young Countess of Salisbury was chosen to marry King Henry II’s illegitimate son William. After her husband’s untimely death, Ela served as high sheriff of Wiltshire, castellan of Salisbury Castle, and ultimately founder and abbess of Lacock Abbey.
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The weaving together of myths & legends
- By Careful Shopper on 10-06-25
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Cloister of Whispers
- Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, Book 6
- Narrated by: Madeleine Brolly
- Series: Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries, Book 6
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 16-08-23
- Language: English
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Lunar Park
- By: Bret Easton Ellis
- Narrated by: James Van Der Beek
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance50
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Story50
He became a best-selling novelist while still in college, immediately famous and wealthy. He watched his insufferable father reduced to a bag of ashes in a safety-deposit box. He was lost in a haze of booze, drugs and vilification. Then he was given a second chance. This is the life of Bret Easton Ellis, the author and subject of this remarkable novel. Confounding one expectation after another, Lunar Park is equally hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking. It’s the most original novel of an extraordinary career - and best of all: it all happened, every word is true.
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Horror in suburbia
- By Graham G Grant on 07-10-24
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Lunar Park
- Narrated by: James Van Der Beek
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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La ridícula idea de no volver a verte
- By: Rosa Montero
- Narrated by: Rosa Montero
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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Overall22
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Performance18
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«Éste es un libro sobre la vida... apasionado y alegre, sentimental y burlón.» ROSA MONTERO Cuando Rosa Montero leyó el maravilloso diario que Marie Curie comenzó tras la muerte de su esposo, y que se incluye al final de este libro, sintió que la historia de esa mujer fascinante que se...
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Maravilloso
- By Anonymous on 07-03-24
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La ridícula idea de no volver a verte
- Narrated by: Rosa Montero
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 22-05-20
- Language: Spanish
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Lichtspiel
- By: Daniel Kehlmann
- Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance10
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Einer der Größten des Kinos, vielleicht der größte Regisseur seiner Epoche: Zur Machtergreifung dreht G.W. Pabst in Frankreich; vor den Gräueln des neuen Deutschlands flieht er nach Hollywood. Aber unter der blendenden Sonne Kaliforniens sieht der weltberühmte Regisseur mit einem Mal aus wie ein Zwerg. Nicht einmal Greta Garbo, die er unsterblich gemacht hat, kann ihm helfen. Und so findet Pabst sich, fast wie ohne eigenes Zutun, in seiner Heimat Österreich wieder, die nun Ostmark heißt.
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Wow! Wieder ein Meisterstück von Daniel Kehlmann!
- By taptoflow on 09-05-24
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Lichtspiel
- Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-10-23
- Language: German
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The Pleasure Palace
- Secrets of the Tudor Court #1
- By: Kate Emerson
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance15
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Jane Popyncourt was brought to the court as a child to be ward of the king and a companion to his daughters - the princesses Margaret and Mary. With no money of her own, Jane could not hope for a powerful marriage, or perhaps even marriage at all. But as she grows into a lovely young woman, she still receives flattering attention from the young men flocking to serve the handsome new king, Henry VIII, who has recently married Catherine of Aragon. Then a dashing French prisoner of war, cousin to the king of France, is brought to London, and Jane finds she can't help giving her heart to a man she can never marry.
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a book that you never want to pick up twice
- By Anonymous on 20-12-13
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The Pleasure Palace
- Secrets of the Tudor Court #1
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin
- Series: Secrets of the Tudor Court, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 19-02-13
- Language: English
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Dead Herzls
- A Novel
- By: Joshua Cohen
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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From the Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Netanyahus, a virtuoso new novel, a haunting epic of decline and fall, about the doomed family of Theodor Herzl The father of political Zionism, Theodor Herzl, was a journalist, playwright, and novelist, as well as a figure of immense fame and...
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Dead Herzls
- A Novel
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 16-02-27
- Language: English
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Thomas Mann: Der Tod
- Eine Erzählung. Ungekürzt gelesen von Sven Görtz
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In Der Tod gestaltet Thomas Mann eine eindringliche, symbolisch aufgeladene Annäherung an das Sterben. Die Erzählung kreist um die unausweichliche Endlichkeit des Menschen und verbindet äußere Wahrnehmung mit innerer Reflexion. In dichter, poetischer Sprache entsteht ein Bild von Abschied, Vergänglichkeit und der stillen Macht des Todes, die das Leben in ein neues Licht rückt.
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Thomas Mann: Der Tod
- Eine Erzählung. Ungekürzt gelesen von Sven Görtz
- Narrated by: Sven Görtz
- Length: 16 mins
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: German
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Great Possessions
- A Memoir (Biblical Memoirs)
- By: The Man Who Went Away Sorrowful
- Narrated by: Johnny Simpson
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Great Possessions is a haunting work of biblical historical fiction told in the voice of the man history remembers only as the one who went away sorrowful. He was not born to ease. He built his life by discipline, restraint, and hard-won wisdom, turning a vulnerable household into one of standing, order, and wealth. He kept the law. He gave alms. He earned the respect of elders, servants, and neighbors alike. By every visible measure, he was a righteous man. But beneath the ordered rooms, sealed storehouses, and carefully guarded honor, another master had long been at work: fear.
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Great Possessions
- A Memoir (Biblical Memoirs)
- Narrated by: Johnny Simpson
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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A Quiet Tide
- By: Marianne Lee
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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At the time of her death in 1815, twenty-nine-year-old Ellen Hutchins had catalogued over a thousand species of seaweed and plants from her native Bantry Bay. Ireland’s first female botanist, Ellen was a major contributor to nineteenth-century scientific discovery. And yet, like so many brilliant women lost in history, it is her personal story that will resonate today. In her remarkable debut novel, Marianne Lee fuses fact with fiction to imagine Ellen’s rich but tormented inner life, repressed by the gender and class confines of her time.
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fantastic narration
- By Amazon Customer on 13-01-24
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A Quiet Tide
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 02-08-22
- Language: English
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It Girl
- A Novel
- By: Allison Pataki
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A sweeping, sensational novel of America’s first “It Girl,” whose dramatic journey to center stage echoes through the decades—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post “As stunning as the incomparable leading lady who...
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It Girl
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 10-03-26
- Language: English
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The Romanov Empress
- A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
- By: C. W. Gortner
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance69
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For readers of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir comes a dramatic novel of the beloved Empress Maria, the Danish princess who became the mother of the last Russian tsar. “This epic tale is captivating and beautifully told.”—Lisa Wingate, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were...
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A Fascinating and Immersive Listen
- By H.A.B. on 10-02-25
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The Romanov Empress
- A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 10-07-18
- Language: English
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When I Hit You
- By: Meena Kandasamy
- Narrated by: Maya Saroya
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance57
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Caught in the hook of love, a young woman marries a dashing university professor. She moves to a rain-washed coastal town to be with him, but behind closed doors she discovers that her perfect husband is a perfect monster. As he sets about battering her into obedience, and as her family pressures her to stay in the marriage, she swears to fight back - a resistance that will either kill her or set her free.
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Powerful, evocative and beautiful.
- By Mel on 15-05-20
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When I Hit You
- Narrated by: Maya Saroya
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 16-08-18
- Language: English
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