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By: Georgette Heyer
Narrated by: Deaver Brown
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A historical romance set in London, a small English town, and Paris. Remarkably well-crafted, with nuanced male and female characters, this book launched Georgette's 53-book best-selling career.

Public Domain (P)2019 Deaver Brown Classics Historical Historical Fiction Regency Regency Romance Romance

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I love the book to read for myself but this narration is dreadful. I had to delete it from my kindle. Don't waste your money on this version.

Truly awful narration

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As soon as I started listening to this I knew I couldn’t carry on. I like a Regency book to be read in an English accent and the correct English pronunciation. I hated the American narration and I loathed the tinny music playing in the background. It is dreadful. I would have returned it but I can’t find out how!

Dreadful narration

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Really poor recording, the sound quality dreadful really fuzzy only listened to the first short section before I gave up. Listen and read to lots of other stories from this author but haven't used this voice over production before.

Poor quality

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Narrator very poor I regret buying ruined story for me
I should have listened to sample

Awful narration

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The choice of reader is inappropriate for a very English story, and not improved by the constant and irritating background tinkling. I love Heyer’s books but I couldn’t finish this one.

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I have been particularly collecting Georgette Heyer and other audio titles for year and this is absolutely the WORST audio book I have ever had the misfortune to buy.
The readers voice is monotonous and totally lacking in any inflection or characterisation. I'm sorry i didn't ask for a refund within the time frame. The nexus or BBC audio books are the best

not worth it!

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I enjoyed reading the Kindle book, but this audible reading is absolutely awful. I cannot understand how anyone could consider that this was an acceptable reading of a Georgette Heyer novel.

Absolutely dreadful reading

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American accent well out of place and irritating music car too loud not a good listen

Irritating music

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The narrator's performance is abysmal, I cannot work out how to delete this waste of money, and my echo Alexa insists on reading this one instead of the excellent edition narrated by Jamie Glover.

Dreadful

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It's cheap for a reason - the amateurish American narration makes it impossible to listen to and out of context for a very English story.

Don't buy this version

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