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Goodnight from London

By: Jennifer Robson
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
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From USA Today best-selling author Jennifer Robson - author of Moonlight Over Paris and Somewhere in France - comes a lush historical novel that tells the fascinating story of Ruby Sutton, an ambitious American journalist who moves to London in 1940 to report on the Second World War, and to start a new life an ocean away from her past.

In the summer of 1940, ambitious young American journalist Ruby Sutton gets her big break: the chance to report on the European war as a staff writer for Picture Weekly newsmagazine in London. She jumps at the chance, for it's an opportunity not only to prove herself, but also to start fresh in a city and country that know nothing of her humble origins. But life in besieged Britain tests Ruby in ways she never imagined.

Although most of Ruby's new colleagues welcome her, a few resent her presence, not only as an American but also as a woman. She is just beginning to find her feet, to feel at home in a country that is so familiar yet so foreign, when the bombs begin to fall.

As the nightly horror of the Blitz stretches unbroken into weeks and months, Ruby must set aside her determination to remain an objective observer. When she loses everything but her life, and must depend upon the kindness of strangers, she learns for the first time the depth and measure of true friendship - and what it is to love a man who is burdened by secrets that aren't his to share.

Goodnight from London, inspired in part by the wartime experiences of the author's own grandmother, is a captivating, heartfelt, and historically immersive story that listeners are sure to embrace.

©2017 Jennifer Robson (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers
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Nice easy listen,

Superb narrator as always. Great little story, my first by this author. Didn't want it to end.

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Great Story

Really enjoyed the story, read well but the English accents need work! all in all a good listen

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Wonderful ….. but….

I like this narrator and have listened to her before. Her “heightened RP” British accent is excellent, you wouldn’t know she was American. But please don’t attempt Scottish or Liverpudlian! Please read them in your own voice, the listener understands. I’m British and still can’t do Liverpool! There are some clanging, lazy errors by the author. Joining the motorway out of London - the first one opened in 1958! Until this day I’ve never heard a Brit refer to the front area as a “stoop” and only in the last few years have we understood “holidays” for Christmas and “New Year’s” (as opposed to New Year’s Eve) from the mouth of a minor British aristocrat is ridiculous and just lazy. I think the problem is that copy editors are usually young. Why not approach someone over 60 in the U.K. who can “translate”? I didn’t let these irritations (to which one is accustomed) spoil this wonderful story for me. I loved almost everything about it!

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loved it easy read best historical fiction .

memorable easy read great narrator and a great story . Best historical fiction I have read in a while.

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